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The dining experiences are transformed into much like a theater or sporting event where diners must buy tickets. Albert Adrià, brother to famous chef Ferran Adrià, tempts the visitors of the new 41°experience restaurant (41grados.es) with music and light shows, taking its inspiration from Mugaritz in San Sebastian and Grant Achatz’s Next restaurant in Chicago. From … Read more
Big Appetites Inspired by “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” and “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” movies and culturally recurring theme of visual size disparity, photographer Christopher Boffoli has made a big splash with his series of fine art photographs featuring tiny figures photographed against real food backdrops. The theme goes back to the social satire of the … Read more
The Macallan Masters of Photography III: Annie Leibovitz Edition, with renowned Scottish actor Kevin McKidd cast in the role of leading man Hints of raisin, sultana, orange and chocolate all at once before a crisp following of apple, ginger and long, sharp oak notes. Annie Leibovitz, one of the most famous photographers alive today, captured … Read more
200-year-old champagne salvaged from a Baltic Sea shipwreck is again going under the hammer. Six bottles of Juglar, four bottles of Veuve Clicquot and one bottle of Heidsieck & Co will be auctioned off this week in Finland. A bottle of Veuve Clicquot from the same shipwreck was auctioned in 2011 for a record-setting 30,000 … Read more
‘Modernist Cuisine’ releases home edition “Modernist Cuisine The Art and Science of Cooking” writers are releasing a new version for the home cook, based on stunning cutaways and cross-sections of foods and kitchen equipment and step-by-step photos for most recipes. Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet are coauthors of the encyclopedic six-volume set … Read more
Champagne Laurent-Perrier to Provide Bursary for Edge Hotel School Student Champagne Laurent-Perrier will contribute a cash bursary to help fund an annual educational visit to the champagne region for the Edge Hotel School’s top performing Sommelier, or wine student. The Edge Hotel School, the UK’s first hotel management school based entirely in a fully operational … Read more