The Young&Foodish year ended on a high note, with my signing on with Phaidon, the prestigious publisher of books by Massimo Bottura, Ferran Adrià  and René Redzepi, to compile a guide to the world's best pizzerias. This happy development should not come as too much...
Is it a waste of your time to go to a fine restaurant for homestyle food made the same way for generations? Is it a waste of an acclaimed chef’s time to cook it? If you ask chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana, just named world’s fifth best restaurant at this...
"If you can suspend gravity you can do wonderful things with a burger," said Nathan Myhrvold, holding up two of the 2,400 pages from Modernist Cuisine, the six-volume cookbook the former chief technology officer of Microsoft both wrote and underwrote. The...
The UK had a bad night at The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2010. In a glamorous if cacophonous countdown at Guildhall in the City of London, just 3 British restaurants heard their names called. Hibiscus (London) slipped in at 49; St John (London) got its...
With the London launch of its Taste of Greece promotion The Greek National Tourism Organisation made it clear Tuesday 9 February 2010 was no day to be in Athens. A European capital already confronting a financial crisis was without two culinary giants who, ignoring...
In an LA Times article about Ferran Adrià 's plans to open a pizzeria in Barcelona, the elBulli chef is shown sampling a pizza margherita at Turin 's Frattelli La Cozza [corso Regio Parco 39, tel: +39 011859900 map.] That pizzeria may take its name from brothers Carlo...
Subsequent to the naming of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, awards judge and Guardian food critic Jay Rayner makes a courageous case for haute cuisine in down times: ...just as with the very highest of high fashion, the highest of haute gastronomy eventually filters...
In his review of Corrigan's Mayfair in London, Matthew Norman devotes the first 285 words to a single hypothesis: The best professional cooks are, like Norman himself, portly: Just as you can't put too much faith in a bald barber or in a psychiatrist whose jacket does...
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