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René Redzepi has been widely credited with re-inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the best in the world by the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards in 2010 and received the unique ‘Chef’s Choice’ award...
Jaeger-LeCoultre presents an exclusive edition of the Master Memovox International for the “Cabinet de curiosités de Thomas Erber” event, hosted by the concept store Colette in Paris. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox International “Colette” is easily...
1985 saw the birth of a watchmaking icon: the Ebel Beluga. This sensual model has inherited its namesake’s voluptuous silhouette, and subtly plays on its inherent femininity with a disarming natural charm. In 2010, Beluga celebrates 25 years of glamour...
An encounter between prestigious Martell cognac and Jean Nouvel, one of the world’s most famous modern architects, has given rise to The Martell Amber Lamp: a polysemic work created as a tribute to the virtuosity of Martell cognac. This luminous sculpture...
Hasselblad’s 40-megapixel flagship camera comes finished in Ferrari’s signature color, ‘rosso fuoco,’ with Ferrari’s Racing Shield. The camera body and 80mm lens are showcased in an exclusive two-level box with a glass top also labeled with the Shield....
The quirky fashion and design house Maison Martin Margiela has been engaged to reconceptualize the Maison Champs-Elysées hotel in Paris. The team behind the bag jacket, the fur halterneck and the cowboy jumpsuit are to make their mark on the entire groundfloor,...
Part of France’s Versailles palace is to be turned into a luxury hotel, marking an unusual transfer of French public heritage into the private sector! The project, to be carried out by Belgium’s Ivy International SA, is expected to turn the Hotel du Grand...
Wu Yi Star Tea House sells one of the rarest and most expensive tea in the world through its 40 stores in China: the Da Hung Pao tea. The fragrance of Da Hung Pao tea is so long-lasting and is potent enough to brew multiple pots of tea (up to 60 infusions)!...
Designed in 1963, but reissued today by Moët & Chandon, the Verner Panton Bar Boy offers both surfaces to serve your drinks, along with storage for your bottles with four segments that swivel out in different directions. Mobile on it’s casters, contemporary...
Skin Inc is the world’s first Skin Supplement Bar offering highly concentrated, 100% pure and active serums and skincare from Japan. Their customised skincare solutions empower time-starved individuals to create their own fuss-free skincare regimes! Everyone’s...
Last year, the french designer Christian Lacroix created for the Scotch whisky & premium gin distiller Chivas Brothers a luxury limited-edition version of the super-premium Scotch whisky Chivas Regal 12 Years Old. In 2010, Chivas Brothers and Christian...
Hacienda La Capilla, a mexican distiller, has presented their newest creation that would fetch $3.58 million! Designed by Fernando Altamirano, Hacienda La Capilla‘s 1.3-litre bottle christened “The Diamond Sterling” is made with 4,100 brilliant-cut diamonds,...
Lafite is a partner of CITIC, China’s largest state-owned investment company, to develop the ‘China’s Bordeaux’, 25ha of vines on the Penglai peninsula in China’s Shandong province. In celebration of the First Growth’s new vineyard venture in China, Chateau...
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ May 29, 2013 Moderator at "Visit Faroe Islands dinner" with Joan Roca and Leif Sørensen. Barcelona (Spain). ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________...
Designed by the French brewery i-Bière and manufactured by the Brasserie du Pays Flamand, the 24 carats beer is the world’s first beer with pure gold flakes!! Top-fermenting and made in the same tradition of beer brewed in Flanders, the 24 carats beer...
With this book, the famous chef Alain Passard goes even further by illustrating his passion vegetable himself of his original collages forty-eight new recipes. The graphic work illustrates a new 3-star talent of the chef who shows here, as in his kitchen,...
The Japanese have made wine for years; it is just that no one outside Japan wanted to drink it, particularly if it was sweet swill made from a native table grape called koshu. But Ernest Singer thinks koshu deserves a place among the world’s fine white-wine...
Last night Sotheby’s in New York auctioned a rare and extremely aged blend 64-year-old Macallan single-malt whisky for $460,000 (€340,600)! Bottled in a unique Lalique crystal decanter created using the “cire perdue” or “lost wax” method, this 64-year-old...
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (“SEAS”) and the Alícia Foundation have developed a new General Education science course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter”. The class is limited to currently...
Chef Thomas Keller recreates an 11-course menu of his Michelin-starred cuisine for $835 per person at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong. Chef Thomas Keller of Napa Valley's French Laundry and New York's Per Se-both three-star Michelin rated restaurants-will...
I got the exclusive by chef Jordi Roca (El Celler de Can Roca, Michelin 3*, World's 50 Best #2) about his ice cream shop in February 2012. International press has relayed this information under my name. Read the Fine Dining lovers post here: article Read...
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So far, there was a trickle in some delis, spice blends magical Olivier Roellinger. Good news for fans, the pirate chief finally opened shop in the capital go from November 18 at 51, rue Sainte-Anne, Paris II. With the added bonus of a unique cellar vanilla...
The Mediterranean diet is now included among new additions to the U.N. list celebrating the world's "intangible cultural heritage", UNESCO announced after the meeting in Nairobi of the Intergovernmental Committee for the safeguarding of the intangible...
This year, like the rest of the decade, there has been intense for the gastronomic. The air of crisis has not halted the proposed consolidation of cutting edge, but have forced a rethinking of business and to enhance the ingredients of creativity and...
