noma - World’s Best Restaurant 2012
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is an annual snapshot of the opinions and experiences of over 800 international restaurant industry experts, and surprise surprise, Danish restaurant noma is still #1.
About noma:
“At noma, we wish to offer our personal rendition of Nordic gourmet cuisine with an innovative gastronomic take on traditional cooking methods, fine Nordic produce and the legacy of our shared food heritage. Moreover, we regard it as a personal challenge to help bring about a revival of Nordic cuisine and let its distinctive flavours and particular regional character brighten up the world.
noma is not about olive oil, foie gras, sun-dried tomatoes and black olives. On the contrary, we’ve been busy exploring the Nordic regions discovering outstanding foods and bringing them back to Denmark: Icelandic skyr curd, halibut, Greenland musk ox, berries and water. In much the same fashion, we continue to look out for new sources of inspiration in Denmark – and in the rest of the Nordic countries as well – to ensure reliable sources of top-quality produce. This goes for very costly ingredients but also for more disregarded, modest ingredients such as grains and pulses, which you’ll taste here in new and unexpected contexts.
Above all, we want to be thorough in all that we do. We pay careful attention to the qualities of our culinary heritage, but we also aim to create something brand new. We want to explore the potential of milk and cream in modern cuisine and develop new takes on well-known and less well known types of cereal grains. We comb the countryside for berries and herbs that others would not bother with and work with foods that aren’t part of any system of formalized cultivation and consequently cannot be obtained through ordinary channels of distribution.
We do our own salting, smoking, pickling, drying and grilling. We also prepare our own vinegars and make our own eaux de vies. And we use state-of-the-art kitchen appliances and techniques, of course, since we are just as concerned with the textures of our food as any other world-class restaurant.
Where others use wine in their sauces and soups, we consistently use beers and ales, fruit juices and fruit vinegars for freshness and flavor. When in season, fresh vegetables, herbs, spices and wild plants play a prominent role in our dishes. Consequently, greens take up more room on the plate than is common at gourmet restaurants.
We feel that the cooking at noma is fairly ambitious but then again, Nordic cuisine must possess a certain purity, an essential simplicity, and we firmly believe that the Nordic cuisine has significant health benefits to offer as well. All these values are reflected in our menus, in the composition and presentation of each dish and in the planning and preparation that underlies it all.”
(Photos by Sarah Ackerman)
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Hotel Americano, New York
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Jetpac Travel Trivia Night
Calling all travelers and trivia lovers in the Bay Area!
Jetpac is hosting a monthly Travel Trivia Night in San Francisco.
The travel trivia quiz has a lovely mix of geography, culture and travel related questions at different levels of difficulty. Come and spend an evening challenging yourself and having fun with other travel enthusiasts. Your years of accumulating knowledge while wandering the globe will come in handy.
Rules:
1. Teams of 1-5 people (Like all MeetUps we encourage mingling so don’t be afraid to show up alone, we’re sure you’ll find someone to team up with on the spot.)
2. No looking up the answers!
Prizes to the winning team will be announced at the event.
Next event: Wednesday, April 18, 6-9pm
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Erik Johansson in Wonderland
Erik Johansson is a professional photographer and retoucher from Sweden based in Berlin, Germany.
In November 2011 he was invited to speak at the TED conference in London on how something can look real but at the same time be impossible. The theme of the evening was “Travels in Space, Time & Imagination”.
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Remember Matt, that dude who funded his trips around the world by doing a funny dance wherever he went?
Matt is a 35-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he’d saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is.
A few months into his trip, a travel buddy gave Matt an idea. They were standing around taking pictures in Hanoi, and his friend said “Hey, why don’t you stand over there and do that dance. I’ll record it.” He was referring to a particular dance Matt does. It’s actually the only dance Matt does. He does it badly. Anyway, this turned out to be a very good idea.
A couple years later, someone found the video online and passed it to someone else, who passed it to someone else, and so on. Now Matt is quasi-famous as “That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I’ll send you the link. It’s funny.”
Right now he’s working on a new video.
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Sunrise over the Kandalama hotel, near Dambulla, Sri Lanka. The hotel was built by Geoffrey Bawa, a famous Sri Lankan architect and is basically built out of a jungle.
The hotel sits at the heart of the cultural triangle of Sri Lanka, close to five UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
(Bottom photo by Adam Brill)
Good catch at the Spring Book Sale in #sanfrancisco today. #map #world #wanderlust (Taken with Instagram at Fort Mason)
Chris and Cathrine globe fighting at the Jetpac HQ.
I felt as if I had been drifting since we’d left Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia had had a profound effect on me: I hadn’t expected to be so deeply touched by what I had seen and experienced. I had a real sense of where we were there and where we were headed, but since we’d arrived in Siberia, I’d lost my sense of place. All that mattered now was getting to Magaden. It had been a hell of a trip so far. Trucks, bikes, mud, camping and bears - it was everything I had hoped for. And when we were working as a team to get across a river by building a ramp or moving a tree off the road, the sense of achievement was enormous.
Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round.
Chapter 11: Bed hair never looked so good. (via distorted-iridescence)
(via distorted-iridescence)
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