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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Mugaritz
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindRECCOMENDED DISHES: Entrées: CRUSHED POTATOES, BROKEN EGGS AND “VEGETABLE COAL” dressed with a “garlic protein”. Fish: COD STEAK covered with tapioca pearls cooked “at the bottom of the cider barrel”. “Accents” of saffron, rosemary, thyme, mint and a blend of spices. Meat: ROAST ESCALOPE OF FOIE GRAS with legume and yeast b...
continue..New kaizen italian cuisine
Magazine -> #22 KaizenLook in the most authoritative Italian dictionary, and you still won’t find the word kaizen. Italy’s cuisine, however, is one step ahead of its language and the coining of neologisms: it tends to reduce or eliminate the superfluous and concentrate on the essential. In the 2004-2005 edition of the Dizionario della lingua italiana by Giacomo D...
continue..To eat childhood; three degrees of amazement in the kitchen
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseAnyone with a minimum of technical ability can be a wizard in the kitchen. The domestic chef, from whom we expect less, can amaze us with the deliciousness of a well-cooked dish. At advanced amateur (or basic professional) level we are surprised by an original recipe, a combination of flavours, or an unusual presentation. The art of surprise for...
continue..Flavoursome blunders
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorSeveral years ago, before cordless phones were a standard household appliance, I was busy cooking a starter – crunchy lentils salad with shrimps – when the phone suddenly rang. The caller turned out to be someone with whom I’d had a misunderstanding. It was important and urgent that the matter be ironed out, and I didn’t think it advisable ...
continue..Palais de Tokyo
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesPalais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...
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