In search of culinary Nirvana
This is what happens when two of the best restaurants in the country (Eleven Madison Park and Alinea) team up together: [youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTMCVaG60GA&rel=0] Granted this is more interesting for those of us general food fanatics than it is for anyone belted down here in Atlanta. However, that’s a pretty awesome teaser video, and one can only …
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The other night, Conan O’Brien recruited Georgia boy Jack McBrayer (the page on 30 Rock) to join Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Chicago’s famed Wieners Circle, a hot dog stand with an attitude. No doubt, Triumph is my favorite member of Conan’s entourage. So it stands as no surprise that this bit turned out …
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When discussions of deconstructed food and molecular gastronomy occur, rarely do concepts like sustainability come to mind. People (like me), who eat food from the admittedly quirky chefs that make these whacky concoctions, are almost always focused on the hedonistic experience of this type of consumption. This is obviously not lost on Homaro Cantu and …
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Stashed away in Downtown Norcross is a little Mexican restaurant touting the name Zapata. Though the word translates as shoes to us gringos, the restaurant actually takes its name from Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary. Thus, it was predictably cool that the words “Revolutionary Mexican Cuisine” were scribed just under the name on our menus.