Although the concept is familiar to everyone at this point, these are laden not with the mostly brown and steamed food common to dim-sum parlors but with gorgeous, far-out, inventively served creations like kimchi yuba (tofu skin) with smoked egg; sweetbread meatballs with fig jam and pickled vegetables; lobster-and-lentil salad; and, yes, dumplings (guinea hen, with broth).
Long before local produce was stylish, she was serving seasonal creations from fruits and vegetables grown in the orchards and on the farms that dot the Litchfield Hills.
The term deschooling was popularised by Ivan Illich, who argued that the school as an institution is dysfunctional for self-determined learning and serves the creation of a consumer society instead.
We differentiate between principles that serve the creation of spin-offs versus those focusing on their subsequent chances of success.
Despite coming into much wealth, he gave it all away considering everything to be the property of God, and and that he was no more than a humble servant of God; sent to serve His creation.
So tensions ran high in the Cultural Center of St.-Péray St.-Pérayfinasists lineight to serve their creations to Mr. Chabran and eight other jurors.
The Hong Kong chef Terence Chan serves fanciful creations like crab dumplings that resemble purple crabs and tofu paired with truffles and mushroom.
Little Thai Kitchen in Darien (4 West Avenue; 203-662-0038) is a funky little dining space that serves sassy creations like larb salad; tom yum and tom kar soups; plar goong shrimp salad; and gang ped yang, a favorite duck dish, hot and mild at once.
Mr. Ren's longtime colleague in the kitchen, Pei Lin Qiu, played off a traditional Chinese dish of diced chicken, scallions, pine nuts and canned water chestnuts, serving instead an addictive creation of stir-fried crab, shrimp, scallops, basil and diced jicama with pine nuts ringed by an army of precisely matched iceberg lettuce bowls, ready for wrapping duty.
The Coles House burger ($9) is a thick, juicy, creation served with lettuce, tomato, a garlic pickle and a batch of French fries.
