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...adapts Cajun and Creole classics at K-Paul's. His dishes of spice-blackened redfish, jalapeņo cheese bread, flounder stuffed with seafood, and crawfish "popcorn" have inspired a virtual cult of imitators such as the Ritz Cafe in West Los Angeles, a branch of which will open on Park Avenue in New York this fall, the Atchafalaya River Cafe in Houston, Memphis in New York and Lafitte in Washington. "The food we call Creole and Cajun is the most American of American food because it was absolutely created here," says Prudhomme. "You can't find it anywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat American! | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...just back from an eating tour of Italy, plans to add new creations to his old favorites, such as a soup of kale, brisket and hominy, and fried troutlings with a sweet pepper and horseradish dip. Len Allison and Karen Hubert, who run Huberts, a superior restaurant off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, admit their debt to Novi, whom they consider the father of new American cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat American! | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

With its well-proportioned central plaza and carefully orchestrated densities, however, Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: And Now, the Tallest of the Tall | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...really seem so disruptive. The site, a defunct rail yard, is empty land; urban renewal rendered most of the adjoining blocks charmless years ago. Moreover, 8,000 new apartments should channel some of the gentrifying development pressure away from fragile Manhattan neighborhoods. The rooftop acreage is ingenious: the park will be above the elevated highway that runs along the Hudson, allowing pedestrians unimpeded views and a sense of riverfront connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: And Now, the Tallest of the Tall | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...some capitalist traits. Otherwise, the "polarization between rich and poor" that Deng speaks of will occur in a drastic way. As China's leader says, "You should give them [the peasants] the power to make money." What is a more important characteristic of capitalism than that? Gerry Heyen Bedford Park, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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