The Malaysian Insider :: Food
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| Best restaurant in Latin America found in Brazil Posted: 20 Nov 2013 11:01 PM PST In yet another sign that the gastronomic landscape of Latin America is generating increasing interest in the international culinary world, popular food blog The Daily Meal has become the latest to produce a reference guide to the top restaurants in the region. Leading the list of 101 restaurants is Mexico, which had the largest representation of restaurants at 25, followed by Brazil (17) and Argentina (11). Atala has enjoyed a banner year in 2013: Time magazine included the superstar chef in its Time 100 list of most influential people in the world for breathing new life into his country's food heritage. At D.O.M., indigenous and Amazonian ingredients like wild ants, priprioca (a local root), black rice and pupunha (a native tropical fruit) are elevated into fine dining dishes. This week, Atala again made the international cover of Time magazine, this time with culinary confrères René Redzepi and David Chang to headline a food package entitled "The Gods of Food." Rounding out the top five restaurants on the 101 list is Astrid & Gaston (Lima); Blue by Eric Ripert (Grand Cayman); Central Restaurante (Lima); Kinoshita (Sao Paulo). The Daily Meal's take on the best dining destinations in the region begs for comparison with the inaugural edition of the Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants awards, which also launched this year by the same organizers of the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards. Topping their list was Astrid y Gaston in Lima, helmed by Peruvian celebrity chef Gaston Acurio. In an emailed statement to Relaxnews, The Daily Meal's travel editor Elsa Saatela said they decided to release the list in time for the winter high season in the Caribbean, and summertime travel in South America where the days are beginning to get longer and warmer. "Releasing our 101 list now, in late fall, will give people traveling here a chance to use our list as a guide to find some of the top restaurants in regions all over Latin America and the Caribbean," Saatela said. At Mesamerica, a major food festival in Mexico this year, top chefs from around the world agreed that Latin America is on the vanguard of exciting, trailblazing cuisine and flavors. Spanish culinary legend Ferran Adria is a particularly big fan and celebrity endorser: his latest restaurant project was a Peruvian and Asian-fusion restaurant in Barcelona, Pakta. To arrive at their ranking, The Daily Meal consulted industry experts, local food guides, reviews and listings to come up with a shortlist of 214 restaurants across 25 countries and regions. That was then whittled down to 101 by restaurant critics, food and lifestyle writers and bloggers around the world. – AFP/Relaxnews, November 21, 2013. |
| London department store debuts champagne vending machine Posted: 20 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST In what some see as the champagne house's attempt at making bubbly more accessible to the general public, the new vending machine at London department store Selfridges dispenses blinged-out mini bottles of bubbly, bedecked with 350 deco-inspired Swarovski mini crystals. The machine is located in the store's Christmas section, where shoppers can stock up on 200 ml bottles for $29 (RM 92.23) for the holidays. It's the latest luxury product to find its way into an automatic dispenser at a time when consumers demand convenience and customer service is becoming increasingly automated. This spring, Selfridges also debuted a vending machine that sold Chanel mascaras for a limited time. And last year, the world's first caviar vending machine debuted in the US for customers with haute snack cravings that go beyond candy bars and chips. The Beverly Hills Caviar machine dispenses containers of caviar along with all the accoutrements needed to throw a caviar fete or satisfy midnight fish egg cravings, including blinis, truffle oil, Mother of Pearl plates and spoons and gourmet salts. – AFP/Relaxnews, November 21, 2013. |
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