... in Manhattan. Eureka was serving 20 guests with tasting menus of 14 courses, and McGarry’s career was launched. World Policy Journal snagged McGarry, perhaps the world’s youngest chef at the age of 16, for our Chat Room in Paris, midway through a cook’s tour of Europe. Photo: Eleven Madison Park...

...Eben Klemm Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 I delight in the questionable taste most dictators seem to demonstrate in their drinking, if they partake at all. It seems to be all or nothing for the legendary despots—recall that Hitler was famously a teetotaler. Of course...

... tasted for the first time pisco sour—the drink that combines the grape-based liquor with egg whites and sugar cane syrup. More than a few discovered that the sweet cocktail, being so tasty and easy on the palate, could give way to a major hangover especially after the second or third glass. Today’s...

... the place of origin of its coffees and teas—Kenya, Guatemala, Ethiopia, and the drink culture they belong to—American, Italian, Indian—for the purpose of conveying ideas regarding tastes, value, and quality. It would appear that adding a nationality to food increases its perceived value and appeal...

... think its something that is inevitably going to change. I think the market will drive toward that. And do we eat too much meat? I’m not a health nutrition specialist at all, but I think if you have a diet primarily based on plants and you are able to make these plants taste as good as steak, because...

..., is that countries like India and China are now home to burgeoning middle classes, eager for a taste of the “good life”—and with the means to purchase a piece of it for themselves. The income gap between haves and have-nots may be growing. But the aspiration gap between the “have-lots” and the “have-somes...

... contributions from ing to accept the inevitability of a world in such luminaries as David Landes, Francis which American tastes and American values Fukuyama, Seymour Martin Lipset, Nathan enjoy pride of place. But as the system’s Glazer, Orlando Patterson, and Tu Wei- chief engine (and foremost...

... and opportunities. Then, Map Room traces the little-known buried reserves of fresh water that could become a crucial, life-saving resource in the future. The popular rapper and one-time Sudanese child soldier Emmanuel Jal gives us a taste of why music gives him strength and how sacrifice can transform nations...

..., Russian meat-filled a market. dumplings. It is an inviting restaurant, a 96 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • SPRING 2004 synthesis of local tastes and Western entre- of the Soviet and Nazi occupations, in­ preneurialism...

...Steven Erlanger © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Edinburgh, Scotland—September’s referendum on independence has clarified matters, but like a raw whisky, leaves a bitter taste in many Scottish mouths. A country—and make no mistake, Scotland is a country—has been...

... to be contrarians by temperament, bile, and disposi­ tion as much as reason. They are contrarians in the stock market and contrarians with their spouses. And as with many refugees, Eberstadt also tasted the malicious absurdities of official­ dom. During the Battle of Britain, he...

... of America . . . even they cannot do anything to us.” Shekau had his first taste of global relevance on Aug. 26, 2011. Around 11 a.m. that day, a vehicle smashed through two security barriers at the entrance to the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Its driver crashed the car...

... drifted into petty crime, or an un-Islamic taste for alcohol and women. Something then leads them to religion and thence radical voices preaching the Utopia of worldwide Islamic rule.” All the above may be true, but to my mind is not sufficient. What occurred in London indeed adds a codicil...

.... The Republican Party he now leads is precisely the opposite of a radical, subversive movement. HE EMBODIES A XENOPHOBIC AND REACTIONARY VISION OF AMERICANISM. All these features have an incontestably fascist taste, but they remain at the superficial level of personality. Unlike Mussolini and Hitler...

... home, then watch him get the grill going. He expertly flipped the burgers and rolled the hot dogs. The salt on my skin after a day at the beach, the taste of mustard—all of it gave me a hopeful feeling. It felt like freedom. It promised something. These were the rituals that gave life...

... on the Russians. My brother gave me good weapons. news that the Russians in our country taste When I visited Kabul, Afghanistan’s defeat capital, in May 2000,1 discovered that the 90 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • SPRING...

...Rahel Aima The museum was just a taste of how the government is mobilizing futurist aesthetics and gamification to construct future generations of citizenry, as well as the state itself. After all, the more speculative and future-oriented the ideas under consideration, the lower the risk...

... offered tastings to curious passersby. As the West warms to seaweed consumption, Zanzibari farmers are adapting to more immediate pressures. The path toward sustain ability, Msuya and Brummett agree, is reaching cooler waters and producing locally. “What I see is Zanzibar having its own seaweed...

..., it was a wonderful village. We used to say that as soon as anyone tasted the water here, they felt at home. Today it’s not one fourth of what it was then. Now we are ruined. The town was never like it is today, lost among the weeds. When it was still our town, everyone here had a way to make a living. We didn’t have...

... Superman Versus Lex Luther 89 Sharon as a war criminal comparable to of the nation.”6 Despite this apology, the Milosevic, Israel as a pariah state almost episode left a sour taste in the mouths even on a par with South Africa...