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...with an opportunity to train for months. While well-funded Norway had a team truck equipped with a practice kitchen, the South African team made do with a less grandiose means of getting around. "We bought a couple of trolleys to get our produce in," says team coach Marli Roberts. "And then we took public transportation...
...Dutch topped one of their exquisite garnishes with pastry windmills. First-time contestant Uruguay served its oxtails in hand-painted ceramic pots from home. The British team's national touch came in the name they assigned their beef filet: Henry V. "It's a bit of fun," says team coach Roger Hulstone. "Britain beating the French at Agincourt and all that." Adds his son, chef Simon Hulstone: "It's a good thing this contest isn't being held in Germany." (See pictures of what people around the world...
...culinary invention, the Spanish team took the most radical approach. Chef Angel Palacios hollowed out whole eggshells, then filled them with spherified scallop coral, made to look like yolks, and gelatinized algae broth that had the slippery, translucent appearance of albumen. "We wanted to pay tribute to Ferran," said coach Paco Roncero in reference to famed molecular gastronomy chef Ferran Adrià. "And we also wanted something transparent to show off the scallops...
...doesn't pay to get out too far ahead of the classically trained jury. "You have to stay in the comfort zone of the judges," says Roland Henin, the U.S. team?s French-born coach. "They can't be tasting or looking at something they don't know, because you'll lose them." Innovative Copenhagen chef Rene Redzepi, who served on the jury, was a little regretful about that comfort zone. "I was hoping it wouldn't be luxury item upon luxury item, that they would strip away the pretension," he said after tasting his way through 12 plates...
...always put us in a good position.” On the men’s side, the team benefited from co-captain Benji Ungar’s return to health. “Benji looks physically fit and back to his old form again,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “He looks like he’s back, and if he stays healthy, he certainly has a shot at recapturing the NCAA individual title.” The senior’s nagging injuries during the fall campaign hampered the performance...