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...began our Italian feast with a batch of plump scallops ($10) seared to perfection. Lightly washed in a slightly acidic balsamic, the tender scallops were served on a bed of crisp lentils and other spring vegetables. The beef carpaccio ($7) was simple, providing the perfect stage for highlighting the delicious meat. With both these dishes, a colorful plate of crunchy vegetables complemented the softness of flesh...
With his school uniform and his plump, pinchable cheeks, Derek Jacobs of Boca Raton, Fla., looks like an ordinary youngster. But looks can deceive. When he was 12, Microsoft certified Derek as a qualified systems engineer, one of the youngest ever. At 13 he was running his own computer-consulting company. Now he's 14, and what's Derek doing for an encore? He's becoming a cyborg--part man-child, part machine...
...which, in Chinese, means both “fat” and “happiness,” derived from the Chinese proverb, “A fat man is a happy man.” In this series, he creates plump, slightly abstract figures in positions of vulnerability and intimacy, which give the viewer a comfortable sense of contentment and ease. One of these sculptures was modeled after his wife and baby son, an indescribably cute and smile-inducing image. His wife complained the sculpture portrayed...
...streets with his 35-mm camera, New York was already a cyclotron for every human impulse. The saintly and the unsanitary spun around at high speed. In his pictures the city was a place of immigrant bustlers. Raw bloodlines howl from their faces. The streets were full of plump, sexy cars, carnal Fords and pontoon-fendered Buicks. By some reports Faurer could be a difficult, saturnine man. But he had a gift for seizing thunderbolts from New York's crackling air. He made just a handful of great pictures, but in them you find the city we still know...
...white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from a soak in a spinach marinade. We share hefeng (gentle wind) salad?a cold plate made up of star fruit, dragon fruit, octopus, asparagus and spinach drizzled with a savory sauce?and a plate piled with plump bamboo shoots. The three of us eat our fill for less than...