Word: cooking
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Some say the cook is the most vital ingredient for a perfect meal. Tell that to Jean-Luc Rabenel, head chef of France's only organic Michelin-rated restaurant, La Chassagnette, who has more gardeners working for him than kitchen staff. "I'm the son of a farmer, the earth is my passion," says Rabanel in his restaurant, which lies just outside Arles in southern France, "and I'm going back to my roots." His kitchen uses vegetables, plants and aromatic herbs cultivated in the restaurant's 21/2-hectare garden. If the ingredients of dishes aren't homegrown, they come from...
Some say the cook is the most vital ingredient for a perfect meal. Tell that to Jean-Luc Rabenel, head chef of France's only organic Michelin-rated restaurant, La Chassagnette, who has more gardeners working for him than kitchen staff. "I'm the son of a farmer, the earth is my passion," says Rabanel in his restaurant, which lies just outside Arles in southern France, "and I'm going back to my roots." His kitchen uses vegetables, plants and aromatic herbs cultivated in the restaurant's 21/2-hectare garden...
...Tsui Hark last year became the first Chinese director to serve on the Cannes Film Festival jury, some feared the experience might corrupt him. Would he start making his movies with a Gallic flair, replacing cut-and-slash kung fu with fashionable explorations of anomie? Would the Riviera sunlight cook his brain until he was convinced that he must forsake epic gangster cinema for experiments in narrative impenetrability? Would Hong Kong's action godfather, the man who introduced the world to John Woo and Jet Li, lose his Hong Kongness...
...night Julie Powell, a neurotic, cash-strapped, Queens, N.Y., temp, decided that she was going to cook every single recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Powell, 30, is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food. As we learn in the account of her culinary marathon, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown; 320 pages; Sept. 28), Child's gastronomical masterpiece teaches Powell precious lessons about herself. Chief among them? That "you are human...
...string sections playing disciplined countermelodies that change with each verse to modify the vocals. In the middle it slows to a crawl for a few seconds, just because. At the end, West is justified in boasting, "Maybe you can be my intern and intern/ I show you how to cook up summer/ In the winter...