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There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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There’s something amiss if restaurants have to announce that they use good quality ingredients; that should be a given, says Dufresne.
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Foam has risen to prominence among a certain generation of chefs—but its detractors call it pretentious or just plain weird.
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Humans have never invested very much in the public health and safety issues of their societies. Meanwhile ants, over the course of millions of years, have put a lot of […]
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Dufresne has two common approaches to dishes: familiar things in unfamiliar presentations and unfamiliar things in familiar presentations.
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There may be more similarities between ants colonies and human societies than there are between ants and primates. That's is because ants, like humans, can have societies in the millions.
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Wasn’t the first guy who ever held meat over a fire experimenting with his food? That turned out all right.
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The common belief that searing a steak will "lock in the juices" has been debunked by food scientists, yet some chefs persist in this practice.
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Because of molecular gastronomists, we have learned more about making food in the past 15 years than we had in the previous 15,000.
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With many of the foods considered by society to be "tasteful," like caviar, we have to develop an appreciation for them. Does that mean they taste "better" than something inherently […]
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Creating a sense of immediate need is incredibly important in galvanizing people to initiate big changes.
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A dynamic business that can both adapt and take proactive steps toward change will be most successful in the new economy.
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A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor
Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at the NYU School of Law, says primary elections exacerbate political polarization. He thinks we should replace them with instant-runoff voting.
Polygamy is alive and well in parts of America. According to researchers at Brigham Young University, there are 30,000 to 50,000 people currently living a polygamist lifestyle in the United […]
By now you've probably heard about Fox News' parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA's IRS […]
There is a big difference between manners and good taste, says interior designer Thom Filicia, one-fifth of the Fab Five from Bravo's popular "Queer Eye" series. Knowing what society requires […]
Todd Purdum has a feature in Vanity Fair this month that is so rich with insight, color, and analysis regarding the communication challenges facing the Obama administration that I immediately […]
Yale professor David Gelernter tells Big Think that America should acknowledge its identity as a Judeo-Christian society and mandate teaching of the Bible in our public schools. America is a […]