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A barrel-aged cocktail called "Negroni" consisting of gin, sweet vermouth and Campari made by Jeffery Morgenthaler, mixologist and bar manager of Clyd...

Jeffery Morgenthaler, mixologist and bar manager of Clyde Common, with several of his aging barrels in Portland, Ore., Dec. 15, 2010. Morgenthaler sta...

Jeffery Morgenthaler, a mixologist and bar manager of Clyde Common, holds a funnel as his assistant pours a cocktail called "Remember the Maine" into...

A beach chair holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston, on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the...

A fan holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the city, of...

A potted plant holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the...

A laundry basket full of towels holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not...

A shopping cart holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the...

Philip Enquist, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architecture firm that created the master plan for a new development in South Chicago, standing nea...

Ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, men and boys of the Abraham Yitzhak court converge in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, Dec. 2, 2010. The ultra-Or...

FILE -- Goat-cheesecake spheres rolled in salted bread crumbs with a sweet-and-sour mixture of celery and figs, and a celery sorbet at Del Posto in Ne...

Whole wheat tonarelli with spicy cicerchie, rosemary and shaved bonito at Del Posto in New York, on Dec. 20, 2010. The dish was prepared by Mark Ladne...

FILE -- Chili lobster in butter and sriracha, ginger, soy and lobster stock that is served with Texas toast at Marc Forgione in New York, on Sept. 28,...

Maxwell Piersol, 13, falls backward into snow from atop a buried car in New York on Dec. 28, 2010. After New York was hit with a blizzard leaving mor...

Residents try to dig out their cars and street in the borough of Staten Island in New York on Dec. 28, 2010. After New York was hit with a blizzard l...

Passengers check in and wait in lines at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Dec. 28, 2010. Buried beneath white powder for more than 24 hours, New York ar...

FILE -- Cavatelli con vongole with sweet peppers, lemon thyme and butter at Lincoln in New York, on Nov. 16, 2010. The restaurant, named after Lincoln...

FILE -- Scallops adorned with salt and pepper with a sauce of sriracha, egg yolks, grapeseed oil, kombu seaweed water and orange and lime juice at The...

Christian Tetzlaff, left, a violinist, under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, right, performs Ligeti's complex, idiosyncratic "Violin Concerto" at Z...

Anne-Sophie Mutter, a resident violinist with the New York Philharmonic, as she directs during a concert at Avery Fisher Hall, in New York, Nov. 18, 2...

A calendar on the door of the bedroom shared by Holly Maggi and her fiance, James Wilson, mark's Maggi's paydays at her parent's home in Fort Pierce,...

James Wilson dresses his daughter, Madison, 21 months old, at the home of his fiance's parents in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Dec. 17, 2010. Wilson and his...

Holly Maggi holds her 21-month-old daughter, Madison Wilson, as she talks on the phone at her parent's home in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Dec. 17, 2010. Ma...

The kitchen team works to plate the first course of a Mangalitsa hog tasting dinner at the Pluckemin Inn, in Bedminster, N.J., Oct. 20, 2010. As chefs...

Diners at the Pluckemin Inn during a Mangalitsa hog tasting dinner, in Bedminster, N.J., Oct. 20, 2010. As chefs and merchants have turned away from t...

FILE -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gather to protest a Supreme Court order to integrate Ashkenazi and Sephardi girls in a West Bank school, wher...

A cone with a tire holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by...

A folding chair holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the...

Bottles of laundry detergent hold a parking space in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the cit...

A beach chair holds a parking space cleared of snow in South Boston on Dec. 28, 2010. The neighborhood has a tradition, which is not endorsed by the c...

Jeffery Morgenthaler, mixologist and bar manager of Clyde Common, at the bar in Portland, Ore., Dec. 15, 2010. Morgenthaler started a trend last sprin...

Jeffery Morgenthaler, right, mixologist and bar manager of Clyde Common, strains a 3-month-old barrel of "Negroni," which is ready to be served, as hi...

Jeffery Morgenthaler, center, mixologist and bar manager of Clyde Common, pours a cocktail into a 2.5-gallon barrel for aging, as his assistant, Junio...

Hamid Hamedi, a private security guard who was shot during a coalition raid on the Afghan Tiger Group, recovers at a hospital from two wounds in Kabul...

Asadullah, a guard for Afghan Tiger Group, a supplier of vehicles to the U.S. military, by a bullet hole in a guard shack in Kabul, on Dec. 27, 2010....

The Hyde Park Barracks, built in 1819 and the holder of collections of cat-o'-nine-tails and leg irons in Sydney, Dec. 14, 2010. A sybaritic, sophisti...

A composite photograph of Sydney Harbour Bridge at dusk seen from Milson's Point on the northern side of the harbor, Dec. 22, 2010. A sybaritic, sophi...

Supporters of Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott cheer as he arrives at an event, as part of his seven-city inaugural tour, in the Little Havana neighborho...

Fort Denison cafe and restaurant, a fortress on a speck of rock in the middle of the Syndney Harbour, and once a place where prisoners were sent on ba...

A composite photograph of the Hyde Park Barracks, built in 1819 and holder of collections of cat-o'-nine-tails and leg irons in Sydney, Dec. 14, 2010....

A composite photograph of Fort Denison cafe and restaurant, a fortress on a speck of rock in the middle of the Syndney Harbour, and once a place where...

Patrons have afternoon drinks at The Lord Nelson Hotel in the historic waterfront district known as The Rocks, in Sydney, Dec. 13, 2010. A sybaritic,...

A Martello tower on Fort Denison, a fortress on a speck of rock in the middle of the Syndney Harbour, and once a place where prisoners were sent on ba...

The mess hall at the prison on Cockatoo Island, which was once surrounded by shark-infested waters, in Sydney Harbour, Australia, Dec. 14, 2010. A syb...

A composite photograph of countryside close the Great North Road near St. Albans, outside of Sydney, Australia, Dec. 20, 2010. A sybaritic, sophistica...

Patrons having drinks in the afternoon at The Opera Bar at Circular Quay East in Sydney, Dec. 21, 2010. A sybaritic, sophisticated city today, Sydney...

A convict uniform that had been found beneath the floorboards at the Hyde Park Barracks by a plumber during 1979 renovations, at the barracks in Sydne...

A composite photograph of the mess hall at the prison on Cockatoo Island, which was once surrounded by shark-infested waters, in Sydney Harbour, Aust...

Old machinery near the turbine shop on Cockatoo Island, which was once surrounded by shark-infested waters, in Sydney Harbour, Australia, Dec. 14, 201...

A bird watcher at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, Dec. 28, 2010. Bharatpur offers the Laxmi Vilas, a renovated 19th-century pal...