There are only two things wrong with the exceptional bagel created by Luca's Bakery in the South London suburb of East Dulwich: It costs £1.40. What chutzpah! It's not a bagel. The Luca's bagel is not boiled before it is baked, the process that yields the...
Grant Achatz
Osteria Francescana’s Massimo Bottura: “Our Ideas are in Service of the Most Beautiful Foods”
Chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy didn't win the 2011 The San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards on votes but he was tops in decibels. Roars erupted from Monday night's audience at London's Guildhall when the chef at the fourth...
Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine: Why Simplify Something When You Make It Complicated?
"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 S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants a good bad day for the UK
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...