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The Future Market

Mike Lee, Rhishi Pethe

Essays on where food is going, and what that says about where we are.

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At elBulli, his famed temple of gastronomy in Spain, Ferran Adrià served spherified olive oil that burst open on your tongue. Wylie Dufresne made deep-fried mayo cubes at wd~50 in NYC, which sounds impossible unless you know the right gelli...

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Salmon sushi feels like it’s been on sushi menus forever, but it hasn’t. It’s only been around for about forty years. And it got there not because of some flash of inspiration from a maverick sushi chef, but because Norway simply had too mu...

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The Ethnic Food Price Ceiling

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    Food + Innovation | NYC + Detroit.

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    Wine, cricket, jazz, salsas

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