Новости за 20.11.2017

“The point of politics is policy,” Ezra Klein explained in the happier days of spring 2014. The statement could be a credo for the Beltway’s wonk class—the congressional staffers, anonymous bureaucrats, and think-tank fellows whose careers rest on the belief that all the histrionics of campaigning and the hyperventilating of cable news are just a freak show that distracts from the real work of governing. Spin might sustain a political movement for an election, but eventually voters will want to see results... Читать дальше...

In the newest season of Mind of a Chef, Danny Bowien, fresh from a trip to China’s Sichuan province, tells the camera, “Sichuan food is what made me.” This is true in the most banal sense: Bowien, a New York transplant by way of Seoul, Oklahoma City, and San Francisco, built his reputation and his flagship restaurant, Mission Chinese Food, on garlic and peppercorns and bean paste, on dishes so hot they famously numb and tickle. But this is not what Bowien means. He is talking about something much closer to the heart... Читать дальше...