Barkley: The kind of cooking that is done at Noma has highly influenced many of the top kitchens in the world, including those in London. He says there is a place for these pinnacles, these ultimate expressions of a form. "Maybe that is actually what the role of fine dining is in the end," he adds.
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in-chief says, but the many encounters it enables still have enormous value. Our correspondent considers what the closing of Noma, a legendary Danish restaurant, means for the world of fine dining. And remembering Adolfo Kaminsky, whose expertly forged documents saved thousands of Jews’ lives.
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