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...MILAN The annual Identità Golose (Jan. 27-30, 2008) in Milan, inaugurated by Italian food writer Paolo Marchi four years ago, has become the pre-eminent event for avant-garde chefs: Heston Blumenthal of the Fat Duck in Bray, England; Andoni Luis Aduriz of Mugaritz in Spain's Basque country and the ubiquitous Ferran Adrià of El Bulli in Spain have already confirmed. Carlo Cracco of Cracco-Peck is one of several daring Milanese chefs showcased at the fair, which will also offer workshops on bread, pizza and Italian patisserie. Top local restaurants offer special degustazione...
...friend made a cooking show/comedy sketch, accessible from HRTV.org and Youtube.com, outlining his recipe for viewers at home. The directions: smear armpits with chunky peanut butter, rub jelly through hair, and scrub off with slices of bread. Then put those two slices together for an “avant garde PB&J sandwich,” Koenings’s companion explains. Both chefs ate their creations, and Koenigs had a taste of both...
...Lebwohl ’08—president and vice president of HRTV—added the video to the group’s website in an effort to make comedy sketches a regular feature. Their repertoire extends beyond avant garde cooking: Koenigs and his roommates have filmed a series of shorts. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Facebook as a liveblog to document their most trivial actions; “self-promoters,” who exaggerate their features to make them appear more exciting; and “performers,” who treat their profiles as “avant-garde works of art.” Besides describing the site’s users, “The Facebook Book” also recounts tales and urban legends surrounding the site’s founding. Lushing’s favorite story details that Zuckerberg’s original creation, a program called...
...seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring enlisted Picasso to design a table setting for an exhibition...