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Cook it Raw 03. Lapland 2010 ? the meeting

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?It is the most romantic way there, I think?, was how Andrea Petrini justified the midnight train ride from Helsinki to Lapland over the phone. Coming from anyone else, a thirteen-hour journey (trapped) with some fifty semi-strangers on what could[...]

la Grenouillère, la Madelaine-sous-Montreuil

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March 1979 proved a prolific month for Roland Gauthier ? within ten days he had acquired not just a restaurant, but a son too. Gauthier junior was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer into a Jura family who found themselves in the Pas-de-Calais after his father[...]

noma ? 6 years, 2 meals, 1 day

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This will be a one-off post, a special entry ? special to me anyway ? as it concerns a special day, a special experience in every sense. For that reason, I shall abandon all the little rules, conventions and obsessive compulsions that have come to[...]

The Flemish Primitives, Bruges

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During the fifteenth century, Bruges was an affluent centre of culture and sophistication. Residence to the dukes of Burgundy, a major trading hub, home to the Order of the Golden Fleece and the focus of Italian banking in the North, the town was[...]

la Grenouillère, la Madelaine-sous-Montreuil

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March 1979 proved a prolific month for Roland Gauthier ? within ten days he had acquired not just a restaurant, but a son too. Gauthier junior was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer into a Jura family who found themselves in the Pas-de-Calais after his father[...]

Restaurant Paustian v. Bo Bech, Copenhagen

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Almost all are aware of the Sydney Opera House, but nearly none know the name of the man whose vision it was. He was Jørn Oberg Utzon. Even though a masterpiece ? although arguably the most famous monument in the southern hemisphere ? its[...]

In de Wulf, Dranouter ? ?Identity Crisis ? Service à Six Mains?

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  Half-an-hour across London. An hour-thirty on the Eurostar. Taxi from straight outside Gare de Lille Europe. ?Dranouter, S’il vous plaît.? ?Où?? il m?a demandé. ?Dran-out-er, en Belgique à Heuvelland, quarante kilomètres d?ici,? je lui[...]

MR, Copenhagen

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Once upon a time, Mads Refslund wanted to be a writer. As a child he enjoyed penning fantasy fiction pieces ? short stories about princes, princesses and unicorns. However, having finished school, he decided to abandon books for another interest ?[...]

Pierre Gagnaire, Paris

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There was a hard, dark side to my family,? begins the chef whose face is now synonymous with a smile. ?[My father] was an introverted man, not at all expressive. He was orphaned and had been brought up by a strict and authoritative grandmother.?[...]

The Flemish Primitives, Bruges

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During the fifteenth century, Bruges was an affluent centre of culture and sophistication. Residence to the dukes of Burgundy, a major trading hub, home to the Order of the Golden Fleece and the focus of Italian banking in the North, the town was[...]