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Celebrity chefs have made our dining culture better, sure. Just not necessarily our dinner.
Flynn McGarry designs eight-course tasting menus and interns in three-star kitchens. Now he wants to open the best restaurant in the world.
Barbara Lynch was a pioneer in the macho culture of professional kitchens. Now she’s giving an edge to the next generation.
The creators of some of the most distinctive craft beers in the world are identical twins from Denmark. They also can’t stand each other.
Parisian cuisine is, at long last, showing signs of renewed vigor. But the French can’t take the credit.
The country’s most inventive bartenders (please don’t call them mixologists) explain how to make their creations at home, even if you don’t make your own bitters or own a centrifuge.
Real estate has gone berserk by the Bay, and tech billionaires are building pleasure palaces. But the homes to covet are the ones reminiscent of the city’s more soulful past.
7 designers on the most comfortable things they own.
The Bay Area has a lot of million-dollar views, but even the cheaper ones are pretty nice.
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