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...Franziska is the Charlie who won a golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory, Adrià is Willy Wonka. For all his influence and renown, the chef still clearly delights in his work, and his enthusiasm for the joy that food can bring is contagious. "This is the most beautiful thing I've done," he says about hosting the Documenta visitors. "You have to see their faces to understand it. It's not just something conceptual - they live in their flesh. It's a magical experience." Although Adrià is quick to point out that other media, such as photography, encountered...
...dropout whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's Toy Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into...
...dropout, whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's Toy Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into...
That's what bugs me about cupcakes: they're fake happiness, wrought in Wonka unfood colors. They appeal to the same unadventurous instincts that drive adults to read Harry Potter and watch Finding Nemo without a kid in the room. They're small and safe, and so people convince themselves that they can't have that many calories. They are the dessert of a civilization in decline. The worst part is, I want a cupcake right...
Barry Bonds is currently under investigation for allegedly perjuring himself during grand jury testimony that took place in 2003. Bonds ran into trouble when he denied that he was aware that Victor Conte, the Willy Wonka of designer steroids, had provided him with anything more than supplements—“flax seed oil”—to bulk up. While cheating in baseball is rightly being scorned and receiving the attention it deserves, another brand of physician-prescribed cheating is all but ignored today. I’m talking about the cheating that takes place...