"microsoft" news and stories

• This former Microsoft executive's forthcoming cookbook is six volumes, 2400 pages, 43 pounds, and $625 dollars. Enjoy!
• The new pomegranate variety Angel Red has softer seeds than its conventional counterparts.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about making gelato -- including a recipe for parmesan flavor. Uh...yum?
• This is the little black dress of wines: "It's a great basic, one that drinks well all year round and never goes out of style."

With a recession in the US looming, restaurants are likely going to see some drop-off in their business, since people will be less inclined to treat themselves to lunches and dinners out. Still, that doesn't seem to stop restaurants from investing in new technology.

The new technology, which is being tested inin Europe, the United States, and Japan, allows customers to order their food directly from a screen at their table rather than a real, live waiter. Sounds like it would be expensive for these restaurants to install, but apparently, the technology is improving restaurant business by appealing to younger markets and cutting the cost of human resources. Later this Spring, Microsoft will roll out a technology that will transform an entire table so that diners can not only order their food, but play music and video games as well. At the table?

Gee, and here I thought we were making progress in The Delicious family by turning the TV off during dinner.

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If ever you wondered what Grand Emperor of the Microsoft Empire, Bill Gates, might serve at a dinner party at his house, er rather, estate, wonder no more.

Yes, up until the actual evening of the dinner, many were all in a tizzy about the $20,000/person price tag,and speculating on who was and who was not included on the guest list to the soiree that included President of China Hu Jintao and his wife, Madame Liu Yonqing. However, we at Slashfood care about what was, and was not included on...the menu.

The first course is a smoked guinea fowl salad with hazelnuts, spring radishes and Granny Smith apples, followed by a choice from three entrees: filet of beef with Walla Walla onions, asparagus, celeriac puree, and chervil glace; Alaskan halibut and spot prawns with spring vegetables, fingerling potatoes, and smoked tomato infused olive oil; and something vegetarian that had no further details. The dessert is a rhubarb brown butter almond cake.

Thank goodness Bill didn't serve "chipper chicken."