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...That "whoa," is what these contests are all about; and the showbiz impulse behind them drives big-name chefs, who all want to be the person that elicits that breathless gasp of wonderment. It's ego, yes, but it's also the urge of any artist. It's why we're not still eating beef wellington and clams casino. It's why food matters now in a way it didn't 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the inconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children - the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality, was Salinger's other enduring creation - make up a kind of group portrait of Salinger, each of them a reflection of his different dimensions: the writer and the actor, the searcher and the researcher, the spiritual adept and the pratfalling schmuck. That may very well be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.D. Salinger Dies: Hermit Crab of American Letters | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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