101 Things I Hate About Your House™; Worlds Best

Worlds Best Pumpkin Bread

1 cup oil

4 cups sugar

1 large can pumpkin

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons cinnamon

4 teaspoons baking soda

¾ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 package dates, chopped

1 large package chopped walnuts

Mix oil, sugar, pumpkin and vanilla thoroughly. Add flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Mix very well.  Add dates and nuts. Mix thoroughly.

Bake about 1 hour at 350 degrees

Makes three large or 6 small loaves

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Legend of Design; Thierry Despont

Legend of Design: Thierry Despont

The world of Thierry W. Despont is a tightly controlled one where assistants blanch when a fax is misplaced, consultants duck behind confidentiality agreements and a woman is dismissed from her job with a kiss on the hand. Design’s dauphin terrible understands that building a mystique is as central to his success as building Xanadus for the country’s wealthiest homesteaders or creating galleries at the new Getty Museum.

In the gathering darkness of a December afternoon in his TriBeCa apartment, Mr. Despont stretched his long frame acrobatically across a red velvet ottoman with the calculated effect of throwing his visitor off balance. The orchestration of the scene continued: the preprogrammed music swelled, first jazz, then Wagner; steaming tea arrived in cups with a bronzed sheen. Mr. Despont flicked a switch, and a fire blazed to life behind two mammoth ram’s head andirons. ”I want to be a man of culture,” he said.

Read more on Design Legend Thierry Despont @ http://is.gd/huWRt or visit his website at www.despont.com

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