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The Vatican 500

February 23, 2015 by antdina

Walk the halls of Rome’s most sacred museum. You might feel small under the ceiling of the Sistine. Or humbled by craftsmanship it holds. But what you are actually experiencing is NASCAR played out over centuries. Daring, imaginative and experimental. Icons like Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo show us the extraordinary in the ordinary. They muscle through the curves and mash the petal in the straightaway. Each stroke a gear shift. It was in this crucible of the Vatican where one artistic idea fed […]

Categories: Storytelling • Tags: asparagus, competition, duck, fig, invitational, Pizza, winners

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Go small or go home

February 1, 2015 by antdina

Chicago is deep and round. New York, wide and leathery. Naples, bubbly and scantly dressed. But Detroit is a city of red tops. An ear-deafening crunch. Sharp edges and sharp cheddar. Oreganoed and oiled with garlic. This pizza bakes in a 500 degree oven not far from where iron was smelted, steel stamped and vehicles rolled off the factory line. This is the hidden treasure of the Motor city just behind the auto-industry, soulful blues and Greek-town.  Done right it […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Detroit style, Fat Daddio's, Gemignano, mini, Pizza, Pizza Bible, red top, Tony's Pizza, TRIZ

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When in doubt, toss an egg into the mix

December 28, 2014 by antdina

The leap to extraordinary is elusive. It’s beyond a careful juxtaposition of luxury ingredients with profane techniques. Or profane ingredients and luxurious stylings. It’s beyond turning the crank of success from yesterday’s inventive moment. Rather it’s a study in delight. That which is remarkable surprises us. It’s a union of the convergent and the divergent. It catches our attention in one move of the pendulum, then disappears in the next. Astrophysicists refer to this dynamic as a Third Gravitating Body. Roy calls it […]

Categories: Pioneer • Tags: Century Egg, cocktail, egg, Eggs Benedict, gin, gouda, Herb Farm, nutmeg, olive oil, Oliveto, Pip Hanson, Pizza, Qui, The Bachelor Farmer

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Language of love

August 3, 2014 by antdina

Some day, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you a service. But until that day accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day. — The Godfather, by Mario Puzo In that chilling scene, the godfather, portrayed by Marlon Brando, agrees to fix a problem for someone else. It begins with a lesson about respect. About using the proper title for a man who carries the most influence in an organization. THE godfather. And while the tuxedo clad Sicilian-American indicates […]

Categories: Communication • Tags: A16, Cotogna, gift, language of love, Pizza, Pizzarie Delfina, Second, Serious Pie, The Godfather

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A taste for ambiguity

June 8, 2014 by antdina

The human mind favors twists. It admires obscurity. It delights in the denaturing of categories. It is the gasoline which ignites the imagination. Artists know how to sing this song. They bust classifications as fervently as the mainstream endures to preserve them. Doubt this fact? Consider Rockabilly. Ask Lyle Lovett for his rationale of both a brass section and a steel guitar. Talk to Bo Jackson. Will he be remembered for the 1987 record breaking rushing or the 1989 MVP in the Allstars? Is he a football […]

Categories: Food Finds, The Taste Lab • Tags: ambiguity, cajeta, Cheddar cheese ice cream, David Bowie, Elvis, ice cream sandwich, Mario Batali, olive oil ice cream, peanut butter, Pizza, Qui, Thai food, William Shakespeare

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For tonights menu, make it jacks or better

April 13, 2014 by antdina

The boy leaves his mother alone in the house. While she grips her shall tightly across worn shoulders, he leads the family cow down a midnight trail. It was their only possession outside of the shack they called home. It was their only linkage to income. A paltry fee for pale of milk is how they kept their bellies half empty. If he did not act quickly they would slowly fade under the blanket of winter. An hour into the journey, a hermit […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: arugula, desert topping and floor wax, jacks or better, olive oil, Pizza, plum seed oil, proscuitto, Vom Fass

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Pandora’s kitchen

November 24, 2013 by antdina

In 2005, Tim Westergren introduced the online world to the music genome project. Little known then, this ad-subsidized radio station would play music in tune with your mood and taste. Simply key in a single song or single artist into to field and the next thing you might say is “Wow. I did not know I liked Boy George. Or Celine Dion. Who knew?” The emotional power behind this work lies in careful analytics. Hundreds of thousands of songs are decomposed into […]

Categories: Pioneer • Tags: foie gras, Kandisnky, kitchen, music genome project, Pandora, Pandora radio, Pizza, Second, umami

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Introducing the edible portrait

November 10, 2013 by antdina

“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.”  ― Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Picasso’s paintings strike with an unforgiving savageness. He paints raw truth in sharp relief. And sometimes his words carry that same poison tip. The quote about Ms. Stein opens the door for artists to decouple […]

Categories: Storytelling, The Taste Lab • Tags: bacon, bourbon, bourbon gruel, caciacavallo, celebration, duck bacon, food, gruel, jalapeno, mozzarella, peaches, Picasso, Pizza, portrait, smoked cheese, The Whittington, walnuts, Whittington

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Behold! 3D cooking

October 20, 2013 by antdina

Italian restaurants tempt diners with focaccia and olive oil. Mexican restaurants lay out chips and salsa.  Indians, papadum and chutney. These free snacks tame voracious appetites while dinners are planned. So if you find yourself in Malaysia, or maybe just Milpitas, look for Roti Canai and Curry. The Banana Leaf, a Malaysian restaurant in Milpitas CA, sculpts their pan bread into three dimensional shapes. Flour, water and oil make the dough. A line cook pulls and spins until a frisbee […]

Categories: Food Finds • Tags: bread, cook, curry, dough, food, griddle, Indian food, Malaysian food, Milpitas, Pizza, roti, roti canai

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Pizza made the way Magritte paints

August 25, 2013 by antdina

Renee Magritte steals our breath with paintings that twist reality.  Museum curators have put this artist in the surrealist category: paintings that blur the lines between what is real and what is absurd. At times, it is a careful play between two things which are true to the eye, but not quite at the same time. Like a fish head at one end and a woman’s legs at the other. Renee’s photo-like depiction of scenes separate him from his surrealistic […]

Categories: Food Finds • Tags: food, Inception, Magritte, Pizza

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