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...emphasizes the science of cuisine--like understanding why meat is best slow-cooked at 136° (higher temperatures cause the proteins to tighten up and release their juices into the pan). "The name molecular gastronomy is quite bad," says Blumenthal. But his food, despite its seemingly flagellant ingredient mixtures, is superb. The Fat Duck, Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray, 40 minutes west of London, was named best in the world by trade title Restaurant magazine last week, and if anything, the acclaim is a few years behind that accorded by his peers. "I have never eaten at the Fat Duck...
Last spring’s “Satanic Panic in the Attic” won superb reviews from many who had once ignored Barnes’ work, mostly by hinting at new directions less directly beholden to Dad’s record collection. Initial reports suggesting that “Twins” would chuck the dusty influences out the window altogether in favor of funky synths and danceable rhythms were promising—but they also raised disquieting visions of an aging Elephant jumping on a new, shakier backward-looking bandwagon...
...Editors: Your issue on immigration [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8] was superb. It takes courage, initiative and moxie to pull up roots and go to a land where the culture and probably the language are totally foreign. Most immigrants are willing to start at the very bottom and work doubly hard to get to the top. Immigration is America's way of staying young and vital. May it never cease! Michael J. McClary Anaheim, Calif...
...video releases of 20 or 30 years ago were shot with a single, fixed camera and suffered from grainy images and muddy sound. They were also more expensive than audio recordings. Today's DVDs--often drawn from elaborate television productions and documentaries--offer multiple camera angles, crystalline images and superb sound. And they tend to cost $20 to $40, still somewhat pricier than CDs, but they are getting more competitive all the time...
...Besides superb acting (especially by Day-Lewis), one of the film’s greatest strengths is its aestheticism. The camera seems magnetically pulled into close-ups of faces, flowers, mirrors, textures, and bodies, constantly forcing the viewer to look at these surfaces for what they are, instead of what they mean...