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...judgment cannot be trusted. From the beginning, the White House ignored experienced military leaders and drastically miscalculated the number of troops necessary to achieve our goals. Congress should study the President's proposal hard. Without a vastly superior plan, we are sending only more American targets. Mitchell J. Fine El Dorado Hills, California...
...Last year, Madrid Fusion was all about machines, and two years before that, it was about chemicals," says Antoinette Bruno, editor-in-chief of Starchefs, an influential chef's magazine. "This year is the return to flavor." Several speakers at the conference concurred. Montse Estruch, of the Catalan restaurant El Cingle, boosted the taste of a beautifully presented San Peter's fish with a handful of violet petals. In a talk that drew on his own experience raising animals and vegetables for his Blue Hill restaurants in New York, chef Dan Barber generated buzz with a discussion of why allowing...
...Adri?, head chef at El Bulli and the godfather of all this conceptual kitchen wizardry, reflected on the direction of the movement he spawned. In a long, almost evangelical Powerpoint demonstration, he urged chefs to learn even the chemical makeup of the products with which they cook. Then, he showed off a few new tricks of his own. Using a "spherification" process of wrapping it in an algae-based membrane, he turned olive oil into tiny, transparent pearls mimicking caviar. Afterwards, though, he displayed a superhero's circumspection about his work: "We're caught in a madness...
MITCHELL J. FINE El Dorado Hills, Calif...
...globe, and bragging rights to being the best young chef in the world. No American has ever made it onto the winner's podium in the nine previous meets that have been held. But Gavin Kaysen means to change that. At just 27, Kaysen is already head chef at El Bizcocho, the restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., which the Zagat Survey has named one of the best places to dine in that city, and he has outfilleted, outsautéed and outroasted 30 other contenders to become the official U.S. representative at the Bocuse. "If there...