 Celebrity Chefs To Convene In Aspen For The Food Wine Classic
 18.03.2010 10:02  0 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
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If David Kiley's comprehensive look at pig dinners got your mouth watering, you need to book tickets for the 28th annual FOOD WINE Classic in Aspen on June 18-20, 2010. The event will feature demonstrations and seminars with chefs such as Jacques Pepin, David Chang, Giada DeLaurentiis, Michael Symon, and Thomas Keller. Top Chef judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons will cook delicious meals, as well as hosting a Classic Quickfire with Top Chef season 6 winner Michael Voltaggio competing against Top Chef Masters season 1 winner Rick Bayless.
New to the festival are chefs Tim Love and Art Smith and wine expert Paul Greico. The American Express Trade program will host trade-only power lunches with David Chang, Morimoto, among other greats. And for pig lovers there is The Grand Cochon event, featuring ten chefs who will create their best pork dishes at the Hotel Jerome. Tickets for the FOOD WINE Classic in Aspen are $1,185. FOOD WINE will donate 2% of the proceeds from every Classic ticket to Grow for Good ,FOOD WINE's national initiative dedicated to supporting local farms and encouraging sustainable agriculture.
To do even more for Grow for Good you can opt for a Grow for Good pass at $3,100 per pass. Along with all the regular pass benefits, each Grow for Good Pass will include a $1,000 donation to the Grow for Good Campaign out of each pass price, an invitation to the Classic Welcome Reception held Thursday, June 17th, a ticket to FOOD WINE's Best New Chefs dinner held Saturday, June 19th, a one-time pass to the Classic Green Room, the VIP Gifting Suite, having your name listed on the Green donors page in Tasting Notes, the Classic event program and VIP access to seminars and Grand Tastings.Filed under: Dining, Events Celebrity Chefs To Convene In Aspen For The Food Wine Classic originally appeared on Luxist on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 170-mpg IngoCar
18.03.2010 10:01 0 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
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Filed under: Hybrid, Wagon, Hatchback, Specialty, Design/Style 
Interested in a five-seat, four-door, sportwagen that "is brimming with innovation" and was designed in Elm Grove, WI? How about if the car were to get 170 miles per gallon? Yeah, that got our attention, too.
The car in question is the IngoCar from Valentin Technologies. But how does this midsize passenger car wring that much distance out of a gallon of fuel? Here's how Valentin describes the powertrain:
This extraordinary fuel efficiency is achieved by a revolutionary hydraulic-fluid drive. This hybrid gasoline/hydraulic drive system can deliver acceleration from 0-60 in 4 seconds. Using a small gasoline engine, fluid is pumped into an accumulator. The fluid then drives hydraulic wheel motors for shiftless acceleration. During braking, motors are reversed and pump the entire recuperated braking energy back into the accumulator. This innovative technology and the car's light weight give an estimated range of 1,000 miles for a full 6 gallon tank of fuel.
Sound reasonable? It could work, but energy isn't free and we don't know how much of the energy spent to move the vehicle forward is recuperated back into the accumulator. Still, Valentin Technologies has a been working on hydrostatic powertrains for a while, so we're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. An earlier version of the IngoCar got "just" 130 mpg and, but the designers dropped 600 pounds (down to 1,600 lbs.) and improved the engine efficiency by 20 percent. We want to see the technology in action, but Valentin says that $3.8 million would be needed to prototype the IngoCar.
For now, we'll have to make due with the video posted after the jump and the first teaser sketches by Davide Tonizzo, of designD, from Toronto. Sure is a lot of the original Honda Insight and the Nissan Leaf in the rear end, don't you think? You can hear Tonizzo discuss his design on the CBC Radio show Metro Morning. Find the March 5th episode and click on "Futuristic Car Design" to listen.
[Source: Davide Tonizzo]Continue reading Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 170-mpg IngoCar Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 170-mpg IngoCar originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Czytaj więcej »
| World's oldest known flying car headed for the auction block?
18.03.2010 9:28 0 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
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Filed under: Auctions, Etc., Specialty 
Going across the block this weekend in Atlanta is a vehicle auction house Red Baron's Antiques is describing as the oldest original flying car in existence. Built in 1934 or 1935 by designer Frank Skroback, this "roadable aircraft" is truly a sight to behold. Looking a bit like a dirigible that's been set up for grand prix racing, it has a seven-foot wingspan and enough wings, stabilizers, ailerons and flaps to supply the whole grid in last weekend's Bahrain GP.
Skroback wasn't a car builder or a plane builder. He was actually a retired industrial technician and electrician from Syracuse, New York. He was apparently inspired by the concepts of Henri Mignet, the French furniture maker who became an aircraft designer and came up with the tandem-wing monoplane. Skroback wanted to adapt the concept to a vehicle that could be used both on the ground and in the air. It's hard to believe it could actually fly, with its six fixed seven-foot-wide wings trying to lift that 21-foot long contraption, even if it was actually pretty light. Under its linen outer wrap is a tubular steel fuselage with spruce wind panels.
Red Baron's Antiques will be selling the flying car this weekend along with an extensive collection of documentation. There's a small sample in the gallery below. Think of it as the great-grandfather of Rudy Heeman's flying hovercraft.
[Source: Red Baron's Antiques via Wired | Photo: Red Baron's Antiques]World's oldest known flying car headed for the auction block? originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Czytaj więcej »
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Proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna defeated at UN wildlife trade meeting
18.03.2010 9:05 0 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
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DOHA, Qatar - Proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna defeated at UN wildlife trade meeting. Recent World stories - March 18, 2010 - Much of the world is turning green Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all hues of Irishness. - March 18, 2010 - A Polish court convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. Comment on this story | Be the first to comment | ...
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| McLaren Automotive officially launches itself and MP4-12C supercar [w/video]
18.03.2010 9:01 0 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
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Filed under: Performance, UK
At a press conference held at its technology center in the UK this morning, McLaren Automotive officially launched itself into existence as a real, honest-to-goodness automaker. McLaren Automotive chairman Ron Dennis introduced the new MP4-12C by reminding the audience that since McLaren entered Formula One competition in 1966, the team has won 25 percent of all the races that have taken place. McLaren created the first carbon fiber chassis F1 car in 1981 and the first series production road car with a carbon chassis. The now-departed Mercedes-McLaren SLR was the highest-selling carbon fiber chassis road car ever (so far).
The MP4-12C is the next chapter in the story. Dennis emphasized that the MP4-12C and future McLaren products will be engineered, manufactured and most importantly exported from the UK. Dennis repeatedly used the word passion when discussing what McLaren wanted to achieve.
Anthony Sheriff, Managing Director of McLaren Automotive discussed the car in more detail. When the program started five years ago, McLaren decided that it needed to be better than its competitors in Italy and Germany. If a customer wanted a car as good as a Ferrari, Lamborghini or Porsche, they could just buy one of those cars.
Continue reading after the jump and stay tuned for live images of the MP4-12C from McLaren's press conference.
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