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...despair of customs officers the world over. On a recent visit to Houston, Jacques Pépin drew a sellout crowd of cooking buffs from as far away as El Dorado, Ark., and Fort Walton Beach, Fla.?at $75 a head for an advanced cooking class. Alain Chapel, whose three-star restaurant at Mionnay is one of France's finest, was the visiting chef at Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant for three weeks early this year, preparing meals for which avid diners paid $75 each (not including tax or tips...
...Alain Chapel, 40, owner of the three-star restaurant, Alain Chapel, in Mionnay: "You have to love either what you are going to eat or the person you are cooking for. Then you have to give yourself up to cooking. Cuisine is an act of love...
This is "concerned" photography, with a twist; for though no living photographer is more obsessed with his subject than Beard, he works out the obsession at a calculated aesthetic distance. Usually that is imposed by the view from a light plane. The most effective images in his mortuary chapel to the elephant (an installation done with gloomy theatrical zest by Designer Marvin Israel) are all taken from above. The huddled corpses with torn mackintosh skin, their bones scattered, their tissues ravaged, are grotesque and pitiful. They are also perversely elegant in the extreme: a ballet of unrecognizable performers, Muybridge...
...architecture. The illustrations of Gothic spires and gargoyles, flying buttresses and Books of Hours, tombs and tapestries and town halls make the point spectacularly; the text puts it all into historical perspective. There are only 16 color plates, including a breathtaking interior of King's College Chapel in Cambridge, but what surprises and captures the reader is the hundreds of black-and-white photographs that demonstrate anew how glorious the medium...
...born into a middle-class Argentine family, and his father died when he was ten. He wanted to become a lawyer to help out widows like his mother; instead he had to work in a bank to support the family. Though baptized a Catholic, Palau attended a tiny Evangelical chapel and was educated at an Anglican college. He began small-time preaching stints as a youth. Later he attended Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Ore., where he now lives with his American wife Pat and their four sons...