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...works in the show deal with one of these two themes. Another notable piece is "Last Seen," Sophie Calle's photograph of the wall space where Manet's "Chez Tortoni" used to hang before disappearing from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art theft in recent history. Next to this photograph is a framed text of commentary on the work by employees at the Gardner...
...native Massachusetts, where Mexican and Indian friends of his French-Canadian family introduced him to the spicy exotica of non-European cooking. Travels in Latin America, Africa and Asia prompted him to experiment with ethnic accents, first as an assistant chef for nouvelle California guru Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and later in the same city at his own Fourth Street Grill, where he was one of the first chefs in the country to use mesquite wood for grilling...
...terrific Cajun food for a great price at Cafe Roux. If money is no object, get dressed up and head out to Dux or Chez Phillipe in the Peabody Hotel...
...also often serve meat. Patrons of New York City's Luma, for example, can enjoy free-range pheasant sauteed with wild morels in a rosemary-sage sauce ($22). Says Luma co-owner Eric Stapelman: "We've bridged the gap between classic gourmet cuisine and natural food." Gingerbread-style Chez Panisse, located in Berkeley, features winter-squash tortellini in a black-truffle sauce as part of its $55 prix-fixe dinner. As an appetizer, Chicago's Printer's Row offers a choice of Brazilian mussel chowder ($4.50) or fresh white and green asparagus steamed with Sauterne and oranges...
Most Overdue Liberation. Shattering the traditional male domination of serious restaurant cooking, an innovative crew of distaff chefs -- among them the pioneering Alice Waters of Berkeley's Chez Panisse, Anne Rosenzweig of Manhattan's Arcadia and Susan Spicer of New Orleans' the Bistro at Maison de Ville -- proved that wearing skirts was no barrier to donning toques...