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...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 is something I want...
...quality he needs when he goes to buy ingredients for the big day. Many of his competitors are subsidized by their governments, but Kaysen has had to find his own sponsors. He has enlisted Uncle Ben's, Brandt Meats, De Buyer cookware and his employer, the Rancho Bernardo Inn. His chef's coat looks like a racing jersey, with the logos of his backers adorning his sleeves...
...coveted staff. Also, unlike with old media, my choices affect people around me. I can form guilds, essentially virtual clubhouses, band together to quest for rare breastplate, recite the assorted lore of Vin Diesel or Chuck Norris, or simply hang out in front of the local inn doing the electric slide...
...Bing pretty much invented the Christmas music industry. He'd been hosting Christmas specials on radio since 1936. Then in 1942 he introduced Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in the film Holiday Inn. Tapping into the nostalgia that GIs at war felt for their first Christmas away from home (as did another Bing hit, "I'll Be Home for Christmas"), the song stayed at #1 on the hit parade for seven weeks. Reissued each year thereafter, it topped the charts again in 1945 and 1946, and was in the top 15 eight other years. In the mid-'40s Crosby recorded...
...Maison Arabe The inn's traditional Moroccan waxed walls display Gebbah rugs, copper lamps and carved cedar doors and balconies. Hide away in the candlelit courtyard by the 18th century fountain or eat tapas in the piano bar. 1 Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium...