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The Tyranny of Choice
I’ve spent much of my morning trying to find just the right word to describe Corby Kummer’s scathing criticism of tasting menus in the February issue of Vanity Fair. I’ve narrowed it down to...
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Terrible Eating
from the Eat and Be Merry Blog One of the objections to food as art is that food acquires meaning in a fundamentally different way than does art. According to this argument, whatever meaning food has...
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Why Cook?
Food Curated has been running an occasional feature called “Why We Cook” in which food writers and restaurant chefs share their motivations for enduring the heat of the kitchen. It is an interesting...
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Chefs Telling Secrets
In my Three Quarks essay this month—When Is A Meal Like a Van Gogh?—I point out the similarities between painting and cooking.
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The Tyranny of Choice
I’ve spent much of my morning trying to find just the right word to describe Corby Kummer’s scathing criticism of tasting menus in the February issue of Vanity Fair. I’ve narrowed it down to...
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Terrible Eating
from the Eat and Be Merry Blog One of the objections to food as art is that food acquires meaning in a fundamentally different way than does art. According to this argument, whatever meaning food has...
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Why Cook?
Food Curated has been running an occasional feature called “Why We Cook” in which food writers and restaurant chefs share their motivations for enduring the heat of the kitchen. It is an interesting...
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Chefs Telling Secrets
In my Three Quarks essay this month—When Is A Meal Like a Van Gogh?—I point out the similarities between painting and cooking.
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The Art of Food Comes to the Getty
The art of food, not paintings of food but the art of food preparation, is beginning to find its way into art museums. If the Getty Center in Los Angeles is going to treat salad as art, then you can...
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Is Alinea the Best Restaurant in the U. S.?
For the 12 years it has been in existence, Grant Achatz’s Alinea, located in a utterly non-descript building in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, has been at the top of best restaurant lists. It...
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