When the column kept getting longer and longer, the editors suggested breaking it into three parts. Another brother, Bill, is a prominent developer who led the transformation of the family's Florida dairy farm into Miami Lakes, a model of urban planning. Covering about a half block where the post office and city hall now stand, it featured a distinctive cupola, ornate gingerbread trim and a wraparound second-story veranda. He was asked to study the feasibility of producing cane sugar. On...

The Smithsonian Institutions chief business executive announced he will leave the organization this year, becoming the second Smithsonian executive to depart amid internal and Congressional inquiries into the organizations practices, reports The Washington Post. Eileen Quigley, the organizations chief executive, said Qvisory would charge fees to participants that would vary depending on the services requested. The Smithsonian Institutions chief business executive announced he will leave...

Either cake that you choose to make, your family will enjoy the novelty of it and you will discover that unique cakes are not as difficult as we think they are. Professional cake decorators say that modem cake mix is such good quality that they use it themselves instead of making it from scratch. Using a pastry bag with a basketweave tip, alternately pipe a short horizontal line, then a short vertical line, rotating around the entire bottom of the cake, until you reach the point where you...

As an amuse, the chef sends out a fetching glass cup layered with stripes of orange, crimson and beige -- a delicious mousse of cumin-scented carrot, a beet gel e topped with a cloud of eggplant mousse. Just look at the crowd: 70s-era rockers with barely legal girlfriends, industry insiders courting a potential hire, well-heeled tourists following the Relais et Chateaux circuit, aspiring gourmands splurging on dinner. No other tricks up his sleeves? The chef has one stunning first course:...

A controversial modified rice - which will have protein often found in breast milk - has got clearance of American regulators. IndiaDaily - GM rice gets clearance from US regulators. But many other pharmaceutical genetically-modified crops are already grown indoors or in inedible plants such as tobacco. The rice strains, made by Ventria Bioscience in Sacramento, California, produce lysozyme, lactoferrin and human serum albumin, commonly found in breast milk, in their seeds, it said. This...