Is there any point in summing up the past year? It doesn’t seem to matter what we're talking about -- dining, music, politics -- all trains of thought lead to the wreckage of September 11. For most of us it's as if the first eight months of the year didn't even happen. So to put it bluntly, I'm not even going to try to tax my culinary memory. Instead I'm going to do something uncharacteristically optimistic: I'm going to look ahead at the gastronomic trends I think will occur in this new... More >>>