Georges-Eugène Haussmann had just spiced up Paris with his famous boulevards, and Amsterdam wanted in on the action.
First, it is utterly delicious, as anyone who has thrown caution and official advice about only drinking sealed bottles of water to the wind will testify – creamy and sweet-sour, sometimes salty, sometimes subtly spiced and never less than utterly refreshing.
Do you like them sweet or salty, spiced, fruity or plain, and what is the best type of yoghurt to use for an authentic-tasting result?
There is little that grows in Lincolnshire that has not been spiced by our hands.
Be sure to indulge in some traditional Moroccan fare such as the deliciously spiced pigeon pastilla or a tasty vegetarian tagine.
All these companies have seen their share of their home markets slide in recent years, so they compete more fiercely abroad.The more open market, spiced by rising production from the Japanese transplant factories in Britain, has seen two of Europe's big six pull away from the rest of the group.
Halfway through, organisers spiced things up with the announcement that Apple had entered the market with iTown, a fictitious online community for users of its iTunes music service.
His bus tour featured a rousing stump speech about the hard-pressed middle class, spiced with Republican-bashing.
Arriving this week at a high school in his New York district, which runs from Harlem through Upper Manhattan to bits of the Bronx, he gazed about with a look of toothy delight, spiced with wide-eyed amazement.
That is likely to be the experience of many readers, even of those who do not care for the novels.While it is full of good humour and spiced with anecdote, the "Journal" is also a record of disaster.
And he became prime minister, for eight eventful months in 2008, less for his political competence than because he could cook a mean salmon tom kha, spiced up with galangal and lemongrass.He had won 233 seats, enough to govern in coalition, but life was always going to be difficult.
