The Stinking Rose The Stinking Rose The Stinking Rose is a California-based restaurant, known for including garlic as an ingredient for every one of its dishes. It has two outlets; one in San Francisco and one in Beverly Hills. The official mantra is "We season our garlic with food". Among other things, it serves garlic ice cream. It has inspired two garlic-themed cookbooks titled "The Stinking Cookbook" (1994) and "The Stinking Rose Restaurant Cookbook" (2006). In 2014, the 13,500 square foot restaurant on a 38,500 square foot lot in Los Angeles was put up for sale. The asking price was just under $18.3
A Rose Is Still a Rose A Rose Is Still a Rose A Rose is Still a Rose is the thirty-fourth studio album by American recording artist Aretha Franklin. It was released on March 10, 1998 by Arista Records. Conceived after a longer hiatus and a complete departure from her previous studio album "What You See Is What You Sweat" (1991), the album includes influences of 1990s hip hop as well as modern-day contemporary R&B and soul music. Throughout the project, Franklin worked with many famed hip hop producers and rappers, such as Lauryn Hill, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jermaine Dupri, and Daryl Simmons. With the latter