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...current ubiquity of the runny egg, however, isn't just due to Spanish influences and the greenmarket movement, which fetishizes purity and simplicity. It benefited from the other major 21st century food trend: high-tech cooking equipment. There is a quiet tug-of-war going on in restaurant kitchens between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell...
...couldn't live without was a $1,300 immersion circulator, which allowed them to find and maintain the exact temperature at which egg whites and yolks begin to set. A slow-poached egg-- say, at 143°F for 90 minutes-- is that rare, perfect synthesis of greenmarket and high tech. When cracked open, the thing spills out ludicrously egg-shaped and ridiculously soft, the yolk suspended between raw and cooked, the cloudy white freed from that slight rubberiness I never knew bothered me until I had an egg without it. David Chang, who drops one in his ramen...
...high-strength aluminum, forming a shell that's 30% stiffer and 10% lighter. The XKR's V-8 engine got a boost, producing 420 h.p. and 413 lb.-ft. of torque--good for a 0-to-60-m.p.h. time of 4.9 sec. And Jag loaded up on high-tech gadgetry like shift paddles on the steering wheel and parking assist (via a video screen). Buyers may also opt for adaptive cruise control, which uses radar to adjust the car's speed on the basis of the proximity of vehicles in front...
...once seemed so promising. Both men shared the same vision and goal: to use technology to thrust General Motors boldly into the 21st century. When GM in 1984 bought Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems, the computer-services firm that Perot had founded, Smith was trying to inject high-tech know-how and a can-do spirit into a stodgy company. But the job of grafting an entrepreneurial operation onto a highly departmentalized, regimented and unionized organization proved to be more troublesome than anticipated...
...longer, though, will Perot sit on GM's board and offer suggestions on how to manufacture cars more efficiently in the high-tech age. With or without Perot, the biggest challenge facing Roger Smith remains the same: to prove that he can turn around GM's sagging fortunes...