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...boulevardiers try Le Gavroche, Scotts, Tom Aikens and Shane Osburn of Pied à Terre all on the same day? More than 40 of London's world-class restaurants cook up miniature versions of their signature dishes and serve them from their stalls; strollers can browse the best of British artisan food producers and enjoy the chefs' theater, where some of the U.K.'s most famous cooks explain their craft. www.tasteoflondon.co.uk...
...resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry's survival. So has Obin: by working almost exclusively in batik, she has created a business that supports about 2,500 employees. Among them are dozens of artisans practicing their craft at home...
...radically new way of thinking about cooking because it's so very old. But I was surprised to learn that Café 150 was the brainchild not of some anticorporate artisan but of John Dickman, 51, Google's food-service manager. Dickman not only worked for 14 years at the food giant Marriott--he even trained flight attendants to cook plane food. I was curious how he had created such a radical restaurant...
...their company, Reversible, decided to morph the everlasting stuff into a hip line of handbags and totes. Together with a small team of artisan workers in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyons, they scissor out the best graphics to produce one-of-a-kind carry-alls. But more than just an original fashion accessory, Imberton sees them as a "modest" initiative to develop an environmentally responsible solution. Only a tiny fraction of billboards in France are recycled. Removed from their supports, some end up on farms, tossed over woodpiles or machinery. Others are burned, which, if not done properly, releases dioxins...
...Vera A menagerie of glass beetles, flame-worked by Venetian artisan Vittorio Constantini, is at De Vera, a SoHo design boutique. tel: (1-212) 625-0838; www.deveraobjects.com...