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...simplicity. It benefited from the other major 21st century food trend: high-tech cooking equipment. There is a quiet tug-of-war going on in restaurant kitchens between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell and its I'll-be-whatever-texture-you-choose- to-cook-me-into submissiveness--wants to be messed with...
...famously, there is Ferrįn Adrią of El Bulli, two hours north of Barcelona in the seaside town of Roses. A food alchemist, Adrią has inspired a generation of chefs with his scientific approach to cooking: rendering gelatins out of seaweed powder, combining flavors like salmon and coffee, using nitrous oxide gas to create sauces airier than foam. Unfortunately, Adrią, 43, closes shop for half the year (to run food experiments in his lab) and can honor just 8,000 of the 100,000 table requests he gets annually...
...future date. Given the stumbling blocks, the fledgling emissions market has yet to achieve much. More than 1 million emissions allowances - each equivalent to one metric ton of CO2 - change hands each week in electronic trading alone, Drummond says. (CO2 is considered the biggest atmosphere offender, but methane, nitrous oxide and three other gases also are due to be traded according to their CO2 equivalents.) Conducted in "clips" of 5,000 metric tons, the typical trade is 10,000 to 20,000 tons. That weekly volume represents about $10 million - a tiny market...
...aloft tethered to the belly of a futuristic cargo plane dubbed White Knight, which takes off effortlessly and then climbs in circles of ever increasing altitude for an hour. Just when you think White Knight has disappeared from sight, SpaceShipOne separates and ignites its engine, which is fueled by nitrous oxide and rubber, and a plume of white smoke shoots straight up into the sky. Unlike the computer-driven shuttle, SpaceShipOne is controlled by an old-fashioned mechanical stick and rudder. That makes the altitude climb hair-raising for the pilot. "It's going faster than a speeding bullet," says...
Prime example: 2 Fast 2 Furious, sequel to the 2001 hit. It puts the viewer behind the wheel of souped-up cars like a Nissan Skyline and a Yenko Camaro, both juiced with NOS--a nitrous oxide injection system--that instantly multiplies their speed as if they're toddlers on sugar. These cars seem to double as aircraft. When goosed by an ace driver, the Skyline vaults across a yawning drawbridge, and the Yenko flies across the water to crash-land on the upper deck of the bad guy's yacht. 2F2F has a bit of plot about...