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Glowing Terms
Food / TravelThe kitchen is very much the focal point of cookbook author Mimi Thorisson’s family home in northern Italy. Gathering together the best ingredients that Piedmont has to offer, she enjoys preparing warming, market-fresh meals – with an expertly mixed apéritif or two, of course …
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Village Champion
Fashion / Food / TravelHaving decamped from Paris to a restored house in the country, art director Charlotte Huguet rustles up inventive recipes to entertain her many guests. In the process she has become an advocate of rural living – so much so, she wrote a book on it …
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Lunch at the Savoy?
Food / Interior Design / InterviewRossana Orlandi is not a keen cook but that doesn’t stop her hosting unforgettable alfresco soirées. The grande dame of Milan Design Week welcomes Konfekt into her gallery, where conversation flows like a good rosso piceno …
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Another country
Art & Culture / FoodAfter a childhood of experimentation in the kitchen of her rustic family home, Alice Moireau set aside her dreams of opening a restaurant for a new life in Paris. Having returned to the Loire Valley last year, she now draws inspiration from nature for her various creative pursuits, whether it’s cooking or designing textiles. Here she shares some simple recipes from her autumn playbook, from a mouth-watering polenta dish to a comforting almond and pear tart …
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Metropolis of feasibility
Art & Culture / Food / Interior Design / TravelIn recent years, Leipzig’s magnificent old buildings and abandoned factories have attracted artists and creatives, and the German city has blossomed as a result. Though its cultural scene is now fizzing, a refreshingly laid-back spirit lingers in the air. We take a stroll through its picturesque streets to find a city that’s full of surprises …
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Culinary portrait
Art & Culture / Food / TravelVictoire de Taillac-Touhami’s Parisian apartment is the setting for her recreation of a childhood dish. And not even a visit from the Louvre can interrupt dinner …
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Waking a sleeping beauty
Food / TravelA dedicated duo are bringing a slumbering vineyard gently back to life by improving the habitat for birds, butterflies, bees and rare bats, in the certain knowledge that a healthy ecosystem produces better wine. They hope it will become a blueprint for the future …
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Lots new in the north
Food / InterviewFor many centuries, surviving a long Nordic winter in Finland was something you had to be prepared for – those who did not take proper precautions were in for it. Collecting, drying, pickling, salting and fermenting were therefore an essential part of basic culinary skills. In his restaurant Grön in Helsinki, chef Toni Kostian has rediscovered the old methods and developed a new star cuisine …
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The restaurant at the end of the universe
Food / TravelThe World’s Best Restaurant of 2019 is about as far away from glamorous metropolitan life as you can get… but here, in the South African fishing village of Paternoster, De Wolfgat creates dimensions of flavor that big-city foodies can only dream of …
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The science of good taste
Food / Interview / TravelWhere do you find business partners in California? Google, sometimes. Brian Chau, a San Francisco-based food scientist, was looking for a place where he could develop new formulas in peace; Dan Mills was dreaming of opening a maker space where all his kitchen equipment would have a purpose …
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Carlo’s brave new world
Food / TravelThe kitchen of Milanese chef Carlo Cracco is a melting pot of northern Italian traditions and the latest experimental techniques, forging an unmistakable culinary signature. Now, the Italian chef has opened a very personal and luxurious stage for his culinary creations …
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Squaring the circle
Food / TravelJust a few months after opening, a San Francisco burger joint has already achieved cult status. Their secret? Gourmet quality plus restaurant robotics …
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From Waste to Taste
Food / InterviewDouglas McMaster: brilliant, uncompromising, uses a lot of superlatives. Also, kind of a rock star. His first restaurant, Silo, which opened in Brighton in 2014, takes the “zero waste” idea to new heights. Since September 2017, the 31-year-old British chef has been outdoing even himself …
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Countdown to zero
Food / TravelFor a long time, the Silo in Brighton was the lonely pioneer on the zero-waste restaurant scene. Now, a paradigm shift is finally on the horizon.
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The high-tech playground
Food / TravelA new workspace has just opened its doors in San Francisco: an experimental playground for fans of high-tech cooking.
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Cool cities – São Paulo
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelWhile Rio de Janeiro is immediately associated with beaches and samba, its big sister São Paulo has a Blade Runner-style image with a criminal background: wild and potentially dangerous – and anything but sexy. …
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Cool cities – San Francisco
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFrom the West Coast to the rest of the world: San Francisco is deemed the birthplace of the five-pocket jeans, the most important fashion statement of the past 140 years.
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Cool cities – Los Angeles
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFlashing camera bulbs and famous faces. Endless sunshine and bling-bling fashion. An obsession with physical perfection and Lamborghinis. There is hardly another city that manages to capture our imaginations like Los Angeles does. And the funny thing about it: the clichés are substantiated at every turn!
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Cool cities – New York
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelIt’s the peculiar geography of New York that makes it what it is: a sardine can filled with eight million people, basically piled up on top of one other, living and working. In contrast to most other metropolises the Big Apple has no way of giving itself over to middle-age spread: two rivers, the Hudson and the East River, hinder a geographic city sprawl. So, at least on Manhattan Island, growth can only go one way: upwards.
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Cool cities – Montreal
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelThe spectacularly located Montreal, which lies on the left bank of the St. Lawrence River, is considered by many as the Canadian ‘Petit Paris’. And it’s not just the picturesque streets in the world’s second largest French city that are indeed reminiscent of the Seine metropolis: when it comes to guts and stylistic individualism, the people of Montreal can certainly hold their own against their erstwhile conquerors.