Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
you might be a foodie if . . . you are rich and you hate america.
this non-foodie food guide is getting pdx panties in a twist.
this non-foodie food guide is getting pdx panties in a twist.
Massively multiplayer scabble on a *giant* board. A little slow for me, but the board is incredible. Very cool idea.
seriously yummy, but a little pricey, especially on toast with apple butter (thanks j & b for the awesome apple butter!)
Michelin awards 2 stars to 18-seat cafe in a Brooklyn grocery store
By The Associated Press (CP) – 4 days ago
NEW YORK, N.Y. — An 18-seat cafe in a Brooklyn grocery store has won two stars from the prestigious Michelin Guide to New York.
Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret calls the Chef's Table at the Brooklyn Fare grocery "one of the 300 greatest" restaurants in the world.
It melds French technique with Mediterranean and Japanese cuisines.
The price of the tasting menu isn't quite as humble as the surroundings: $135 per person.
Cesar Ramirez tells The New York Times he never expected the honour.
But the chef and partner is glad New York's Brooklyn borough is getting recognition. Says Ramirez: "It's always about Manhattan."
Ramirez says he's eternally grateful to his mentor. David Bouley's restaurant got one star in the guide
By The Associated Press (CP) – 4 days ago
NEW YORK, N.Y. — An 18-seat cafe in a Brooklyn grocery store has won two stars from the prestigious Michelin Guide to New York.
Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret calls the Chef's Table at the Brooklyn Fare grocery "one of the 300 greatest" restaurants in the world.
It melds French technique with Mediterranean and Japanese cuisines.
The price of the tasting menu isn't quite as humble as the surroundings: $135 per person.
Cesar Ramirez tells The New York Times he never expected the honour.
But the chef and partner is glad New York's Brooklyn borough is getting recognition. Says Ramirez: "It's always about Manhattan."
Ramirez says he's eternally grateful to his mentor. David Bouley's restaurant got one star in the guide
SAGRA DI BOLOGNA
Fourth Annual Portland-Bologna Sister City Fundraiser
(our pal Joe, Tara's husband is showing his wines:>)
Fourth Annual Portland-Bologna Sister City Fundraiser
(our pal Joe, Tara's husband is showing his wines:>)
dancers in east oakland via Lisa Ruyter fb
Bab al Yemen
xkcd's updated 2010 map of online communities.
Best Taco NYC (and up there for world)....while no expert on where other good taco's are, had some in Merida once, the fish ones we good at Bonita in Willy'sBurg past, folks speak of the goat ones on 10th ave in the high 40's....
Well a Mexican clan of folks whom have a place on Playa del Carmen, I am veggie these day so had only the two offerings (corn and peppers winning), but the meat looked and smelled great. The design while cool might not handle a rush well. Met the super nice owner (whom bought me a taco), and it looks like he brought all the staff with him....
You can understand more reading this...
Well a Mexican clan of folks whom have a place on Playa del Carmen, I am veggie these day so had only the two offerings (corn and peppers winning), but the meat looked and smelled great. The design while cool might not handle a rush well. Met the super nice owner (whom bought me a taco), and it looks like he brought all the staff with him....
You can understand more reading this...
Homemade spacecraft:
Saw six very early Trisha Brown (WikiP entry) dance pieces performed yesterday at the Whitney. Intimate and clever, the dances happened literally in and among the crowd with the exception of one piece ("Walking on the Wall" 1971) where the dancers were suspended overhead dancing on the walls. The first piece ("Accumulation" 1971) was, strangely for me, a sort of deconstructed hippie dance to the entire LP version of the the Grateful Dead's Uncle John's Band. Afterwards everyone went outside for the final piece where a traffic stopping throng of gawking New Yorkers watched dancer Elizabeth Streb walk down the exterior of the building ("Man Walking Down the Side of a Building" 1970.)
The NY Times had a nice write up of the Thursday performance. Couple pictures in the comments.
The NY Times had a nice write up of the Thursday performance. Couple pictures in the comments.
bill saw this building will on the amtrak this weekend, very nice!!
picture here and more story below http://unusuallife.com/
http://nhpr.org/building-office-shipping-containers
picture here and more story below http://unusuallife.com/
http://nhpr.org/building-office-shipping-containers
Blue Fin Brouhaha -- Alton Brown responds to being called out on the interwebs
Comment of the week: The only thing she won't lie about is the whereabouts of the family of Anne Frank when the Nazis come a-looking.
"I'm just going to run to the deli..." Upper East Side style:
Gliese 581g:
"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.
'Geometry Of Pasta': Full Of All Shapes And Sauces
