Ms Informed Newsletter| Noma, The Menu, and New Nordic Cuisine

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Last week’s show

Shownotes

The Guardian on Noma

Vox on the closing on Noma

The NYT on the closing of Noma

Madhvi’s favourite restaurant review ever

General info on Michelin Star

Triangle of sadness

NYT on #Metoo in the restaurant biz

Rene Redzepit’s personal essay on abuse in the kitchen

Rene Redzepi shows us his new kitchen on YouTube

Wikipedia on New Nordic Cuisine

Vice on how fine dining abuses unpaid labor

NYT on the New Nordic

NYT on The Menu

The world’s 50 best website

Conde Nast on why so few Indian restaurants have Michelin stars

The Conversation on why white male chefs win the most awards

This week’s distraction

This week’s distraction is the death of a prominent Cameroon journalist.

The mutilated body of a prominent journalist Martinez Zogo was found near the capital, Yaoundé, five days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants. The murder is a further sign of the perils of reporting in the African country.

Zogo had previously talked on air about a case of alleged embezzlement involving a media outlet with government connections.

The incident is the latest in a string of attacks against journalists in Cameroon, which is ruled by President Paul Biya, who has a decades-long record of repressing opposition.

The country is one of many across the continent, from Burkina Faso to Ethiopia to Equatorial Guinea, where journalists say that media freedoms are under threat from authoritarian governments.

Read more in the Guardian here

This week Madhvi visited

This week Madhvi visited Paris Magnétique, the new exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin. It contains 120 diverse and magnifique works by Jewish artists of the School of Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. To find out more, read her blog post about it.

This week Rina saw

This week Rina saw Interstellar. Late I know. I finally saw it. A visual masterpiece but why is the wife dead? Why does the woman always have to be dead?

This week’s inspiration

This week’s inspiration is the artist Sonia Delaunay (1885 – 1979), simply because her work is amazing!

She worked in Paris, pioneered new styles like Orphism and Simultanism, and worked in different mediums like fashion and design.

To see more, visit the Paris Magnetique exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin that Madhvi wrote about (above).

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