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• The Drawing Center Chef Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity.

  "As curator of the exhibition, Littman made several trips to Barcelona, Spain, over a span of two years, spending long hours with Adrià culling materials for the show, which includes hundreds of notebooks filled with everything from loose sketches for new dishes to ideas, collaged photographs, lists, tables of ingredients, and cooking methods. They communicated through a translator, but Littman said that the chef spent much of the time conveying his ideas with pen and paper. "

  tags: elbulli restaurants food spain catalonia catalunya

• New facility at NREL tests wind turbines' performance - The Denver Post

  "The answer may be blowing in the wind, but the National Wind Technology Center is using a new $16 million dynamometer to test how wind turbines perform. The 5-megawatt dynamometer test facility is the newest addition at the center, which is part of the Golden-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory."

  tags: wind alternativeenergy renewableenergy technology colorado doe unitedstates

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