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Costello, D'Angelo, more perform at Prince tribute
NEW YORK (AP) ? They partied like it was 1999 ? the audience and the musicians ? at a Prince tribute concert at Carnegie Hall.
More than 20 performers, including Elvis Costello, The Roots and the Waterboys, paid tribute to the pop icon in a two-hour-plus concert Thursday night. They all joined together onstage to close the show with "1999."
Singer D'Angelo took the lead while putting his arm around Bettye LaVette, Chris Rock and Costello clapped hands side-by-side, and comedian-actress-singers Maya Rudolph and Sandra Bernhard danced in a silly manner ? all while the crowd cheered on.
Many of the performers got into character as they sang signature Prince tunes. Soul singer Bilal was wild on "Sister," singing in various tones like a mad man and thrilling the crowd. Bernhard, in her leather pants, shimmery shirt and shiny shoes, impressed on "Little Red Corvette" as she skipped around onstage and belted high notes. And singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson captured the audience with "The Beautiful Ones," standing still and singing with only a pianist onstage.
It was one of the only times The Roots weren't backing up other performers throughout the concert, which raised $100,000 for music education programs.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson jammed on the drums and even took photos of a pregnant Rudolph when she danced with one hand on her belly and the other stroking her hair. Rudolph, who sings Prince covers under the moniker PRINCEss with Gretchen Lieberum, screeched on "Darling Nikki" and didn't slow down while performing choreography in heels.
Few words were said to the audience, though Rock thanked the crowd "for coming" toward the end of the show.
He impersonated Prince, too, when reciting the lyrics to "If I Was Your Girlfriend" with sass. Comedian-actor Fred Armisen took on many roles: He recited lyrics from "Let's Go Crazy," played the drums while the Blind Boys of Alabama sang "The Cross" and offered light vocals during "It's Going to Be a Beautiful Night" alongside D'Angelo.
Most of the musicians wore black onstage, though LaVette rocked a purple blazer while singing "Kiss." Other performers included Eric Leeds, Nina Persson and Talib Kweli. Wendy Melvoin of the Revolution played guitar throughout the night, while St. Paul Peterson and Susannah Melvoin ? dancing wildly in a white suit ? performed "High Fashion/Mutiny."
Husband-and-wife Citizen Cope and Alice Smith sang a duet version of "Pop Life" and Booker T. Jones was joined by singer Diane Birch and members of the Young Audiences New York Youth Choir for "Raspberry Beret."
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Monte Paschi's spokesman was under pressure over bank probe: reports
MILAN (Reuters) - The spokesman of Monte Paschi di Siena found dead on Wednesday was under pressure over an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud that has rocked the world's oldest bank, reporters who knew him said.
David Rossi, born in 1961, was found dead at the bank's Siena headquarters on Thursday, lying beneath an open window overlooking a back street outside the building, a restored 14th century fortress.
Prosecutors in Siena are investigating whether Rossi, known as a reserved and serious professional, committed suicide, a judicial source said on Thursday.
"He was a very serious person, under pressure over a judicial probe which had touched on him through a recent police search, even if he was not under investigation," Andrea Greco, reporter at la Repubblica said on the newspaper's website.
"The death of David Rossi is a terrible tragedy," Monte dei Paschi said in a post on the bank's Facebook page, which carried a black stripe as a sign of mourning.
"This tragic event imposes first of all respect for his person, for the mourning of his family and for all of us, and calls on us to find the strength and the courage to go ahead and continue in our commitment."
Rossi, who was the head of the bank's communications unit, joined the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's foundation, the bank's biggest shareholder, in 2001 as an assistant to then chairman Giuseppe Mussari.
When Mussari became chairman of the bank in 2006, Rossi remained his spokesman.
Rossi, who was not under investigation himself, was among several people whose homes and offices were searched last month as part of a probe into the lender's purchase of Antonveneta in 2007 and subsequent losses linked to complex derivatives deals.
"He surely lived through a situation of personal and professional stress," Greco said.
Mussari is under investigation in the probe on allegations of misleading regulators, market manipulation and false information in the prospectus of the Antonveneta deal.
"(David) was worried. We met on Thursday, he opened up a little, even though he was so reserved," David Taddei, a former partner of Rossi at a communication agency they founded in 1996, was quoted as saying in Il Corriere della Sera newspaper.
(Reporting by Antonella Ciancio; editing by James Jukwey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/monte-paschis-spokesman-found-dead-sources-000711037--finance.html
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Pushing the boundaries: Study provides key insight into how cells fuse
Mar. 7, 2013 ? Researchers at Johns Hopkins have established a high-efficiency cell-cell fusion system, providing a new model to study how fusion works. The scientists showed that fusion between two cells is not equal and mutual as some assumed, but, rather, is initiated and driven by one of the fusion partners. The discovery, they say, could lead to improved treatments for muscular dystrophy, since muscle regeneration relies on cell fusion to make muscle fibers that contain hundreds or even thousands of nuclei.
The study reveals two critical components that have to be present for cell fusion to happen, explains Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics in the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. Intriguingly, she says, one of these vital components actually changes the structure of one cell's scaffolding -- its cytoskeleton -- to form protrusions that push their way into the other cell to initiate fusion.
Chen's research group had seen this before; using very high-resolution electron microscopy, they showed in 2010 that in developing fly muscles, a muscle cell merges with another muscle cell by extending finger-like protrusions into its fusion partner. But cell fusion is not only behind muscle building, but also fertilization (sperm fuses with egg), placenta formation, bone development and immune response. Thus, Chen says, it wasn't clear whether the finger-like protrusions were present for fusion outside of muscles, or if protrusions really drove the fusion process.
To study fusion in a simple system designed to answer those questions, Chen and her group wanted to establish a culture of fusing cells, starting from a cell line made up of nonmuscle fly cells. These cultured cells weren't of a type that normally fuses, so the group tried modifying them with proteins that were thought to be important for muscle cell fusion in fruit flies. Alone and in combination, however, those proteins failed to entice the cells to fuse. The researchers were stuck, Chen said.
Then they learned about another group's finding in a tiny worm called C. elegans: a protein called Eff-1 that localized on the cell's outer skin, or membrane, and could induce cell-cell fusion not only in the worm, but also in cultured moth cells. When Chen's group introduced Eff-1 into their fly cells, only about 10 percent of the cells fused. But when they introduced both Eff-1 and a fly protein that could organize cytoskeleton remodeling, "almost 90 percent of the cells started to fuse," Chen said. "We had our system."
"Reconstructing high-efficiency cell fusion outside of a living organism allows us to observe the process in unprecedented detail and deduce general principles underlying cell-cell fusion," Chen notes. One of her group's first discoveries with the new system was that Eff-1 clusters along the finger-like protrusions, where the two fusion partners are in close contact. "This suggests to us that one of the purposes of the invasive fingers is to engage fusogenic proteins in both cells," Chen explains. "We are excited about this finding since it reveals, for the first time, an intimate coordination between the actin cytoskeleton-propelled membrane protrusions and fusogenic proteins, a principle that will likely apply to other types of cell fusion events as well."
The insights from this study raise many new questions, and Chen says the cell culture system will be a major help in her and other scientists' continued study of cell fusion. With enough knowledge of the process, researchers may be able to optimize cell-based treatments for muscular dystrophy, in which normal muscle cells are transplanted into a patient and then fuse to repair damaged muscle fibers.
The study was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to lead author Khurts Shilagardi, and by grants from the Packard Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant number R01 GM098816).
Other authors on the report were Shuo Li, Fengbao Luo, Faiz Marikar, Rui Duan, Peng Jin, Ji Hoon Kim and Katherine Murnen, all of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Dow closes at record high, soaring past 14,200
Riding a wave of optimism, the Dow Jones industrial average closed Tuesday above levels not seen since before the financial crisis and before the Great Recession.
It was a journey more than five years in the making, as investors slowly and then with greater urgency over that time, plowed money into stocks, mainly because there were few other places in the economy in which to make more money.
The blue-chip index, the best known and most widely followed measure of stock prices, rose 125.95 points, or 0.89 percent, to end at 14,253.77, led by Boeing and United Technologies. The Dow Jones Transportation Average also touched a record high.
More than 100 companies ranging from retailers to Internet giants, food makers and industrial companies rose to annual, multiyear or all-time highs. Since the Dow's last all-time high in 2007, Home Depot and IBM have been the biggest gainers, while Alcoa and Bank of America have been the worst performers.
So far, the Dow is up nearly 9 percent in 2013, surpassing the 7.3 percent gain for all of 2012.
The broader S&P 500 index closed up 14.59 points, or .96 percent, to 1,539.79. The tech-laden Nasdaq jumped 42.10 points, or 1.32 percent, to 3,224.13.
Stocks got a big boost Tuesday from upbeat economic data from Europe. China helped too, pledging to meet its growth targets.
But the main fuel for the record-setting climb has been near-zero interest rates from the Federal Reserve, which have spurred the housing market, but also made it difficult to make money buying bonds or holding money in savings accounts.
But what does the new high mean for the economy?
"It's meaningful in the sense it obviously has a lot of media potential - it's likely to move stories about the stock market to the front page from the financial section," said investor Hugh Johnson. "From that point of view it is good news in that it tends to lift spirits or raise confidence. There is the wealth effect of the fact that when you start to lift confidence it leads to stronger consumer spending. From that point of view it will have positive feedback on the economy," he added.
In Johnson's view, the gridlock in the nation's capital is unlikely to bring the market down.
"The question it is going to raise - which this market has raised continuously - is how is it this market is doing so well in the face of meaningful spending cuts coming out of Washington with the sequester? The message of the markets is although the sequester is likely to impact gross domestic product, it is not likely to end the current stock market business cycle, or the bull market expansion. It is not likely to interrupt the current cycle."
(Read More: Cramer: Near All-Time Highs, Should You Buy?)
On the economic front, the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) non-manufacturing index, which tracks monthly changes in the services sector, said the pace of growth in the vast U.S. services sector accelerated to its fastest pace in a year in February, helped by a rise in new orders and demand for exports.
ISM said its services index rose to 56 from 55.2 in January, exceeding economists' forecasts for 55. It was the highest level since February 2012. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the sector.
The new orders index jumped to 58.2 from 54.4, while orders for exports rose to their highest level since May 2007 with that gauge at 60.5, up from January's 55.5.
"This was no question a positive number," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon. "It reflects improvement in reinforces the view that the economy continues to improve and should contribute to gains that have driven the stock market to a new record."
European shares were boosted by the news that euro zone finance ministers have struck an agreement to bail out Cyprus by the end of March, although they have yet to work out the details of the 17 billion euro ($22.1 billion) financial aid package.
Shares in mainland China recovered 2 percent after hitting a six-week closing low in the previous session, as outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao set out a reform plan at the National People's Congress in order to achieve a 2013 growth target of 7.5 percent.
(Read More: Why China's Property Market Is Getting Scary)
The Senate Budget Committee is meeting to discuss reducing the fiscal deficit by eliminating wasteful spending in the tax code.
"We are seeing money going into the asset class," said Shawn Matthews, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, but at some time investors can expect a "pause," he added.
House Speaker John Boehner said President Barack Obama and he had made no headway on a deal to avoid sequestration over the weekend. Meanwhile, House Republicans are expected to introduce a bill to extend government funding through September, to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
While stocks so far have largely ignored sequester concerns, analysts say signs the cuts are beginning to impact the economy could eventually move markets.
On Monday afternoon, Stephen King, chief global economist at HSBC, said that the U.S. was living in "a fantasy world" over the impact sequestration would have on growth.
"If you look at the projections from the Congressional Budget Office, they assume that growth goes back to between four to five percent in real terms between 2014 and 2018. Their numbers suggest that the U.S. will post the fastest rate of productivity growth of any decade in the last 50 or 60 years," King told CNBC Europe. "Even allowing for the fact that there's some debt reduction, coming through sequestration, there's still a degree of wishful thinking with regard to the economy which probably isn't going to come true."
Information from The Associated Press was included in this report.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/dow-skyrockets-sets-record-highest-close-1C8685444
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Nordic Nibbler: Maaemo, Oslo ? Restaurant Review (Jan '13)
Regular readers of my blog (hello, Mum) will know that I am more than somewhat enamoured by this utterly captivating restaurant. Indeed, Maaemo has been the location for some of the greatest meals of my life, and since it opened just over two years ago its food has unequivocally topped my annual list of the 10 Best Restaurant Dishes.
I've written at length about Maaemo from my previous visits to the restaurant, so I'll just try and focus on the food for this review. You can read a more comprehensive account of my meal from Starvefood, who kindly invited me to join him for this dinner.
Suffice it to say that the Maaemo team headed by chef Esben Holmboe Bang and sommelier Pontus Dahlstr?m are serving some of the most exciting food I've had, and their use of only organic, biodynamic, or wild produce that originates mostly from within 100km of Oslo has transformed the once staid Oslo dining scene. But if you want to read more about the restaurant and the people behind it then you can read my earlier posts from Feb '11, May '11, Aug '11, Oct '11, Mar '12, Apr '12, and Jun'12.
Amuse Bouche 1: Cooling pucks of frozen n?r (a fresh, acidic cream cheese) and salty orange pearls of l?yrom (Kalix bleak roe) ? a nice contrast of texture and temperature.
Amuse Bouche 2: Small batons of salsify lightly pickled in juniper arrived under a smoke-filled glass cloche, which was removed with great flourish at the table to release that warming evocative smell of the campfire.
Amuse Bouche 3: Smoked rygeost cheese from Fyn in Denmark, a soft sour milk cheese, was served with crisp pieces of chicken skin and some cress.
Amuse Bouche 4: Small pucks of sloe berry-filled biodymanic beetroot, which had a sweet earthy intensity to them.
Amuse Bouche 5: Nature at its finest in the form of a single pristine bite of raw sea urchin.?The urchins had been caught by Scotsman Roddie Sloan who dives for them in the icy waters off Nordskot in the Arctic Circle and they are about as good as it gets in my book ? a sweet, custard-like taste of the ocean itself. Just close your eyes and imagine you're snogging a mermaid.
Amuse Bouche 6: R?mmegr?t is a?traditional?Norwegian staple typically eaten around Christmas time. Here, the warm sour cream porridge was elevated to Michelin level, and its silky smooth texture was enhanced by the addition of brown butter and tiny cubes of cured reindeer heart. A bowl of pure soothing comfort.
Amuse Bouche 7: Crisp chanterelle-dusted cones filled with chicken liver mousse and topped with a sweet chanterelle gel.
Amuse Bouche 8: Prawns from Hvaler served with cucumber balls, lobster mayonnaise, horseradish and smoked parsley sauce. A dish as fresh and cooling as it was beautiful.
Amuse Bouche 9: This next course hardly needs any introduction. It's been a staple of the Maaemo menu since they opened and it's still every bit as stunning as when I first tried it.?Oysters from B?mlo are served as a creamy, voluptuous emulsion blanketed by a thin disc of mussel gel, while a light mussel and dill cream sauce is spooned over the top. Its taste is haunting: ethereal and fresh, a multi-layered burst of an ozone-rich sea breeze on a warm windy day.
Amuse Bouche 10: Bitter leaves of curly kale were served with a sweet caramelised onion sauce, cauliflower pur?e and a smoked cream sauce.
Course 1:?Gran Fra i Fjor & Sj?kreps fra Fr?ya (Last Year's Pine & Langoustine from Fr?ya).?Another Maaemo classic is this jaw-droppingly good dish. An enormous langoustine tail from Fr?ya has been lightly saut?ed in pine butter and brushed with a sweet rapeseed oil, pine and vinegar emulsion. A pine infusion was poured over dry ice hidden around the dish releasing clouds of pine-scented smoke across the table. If you've never tried a Norwegian langoustine in its prime before, then biting into the sweet, fresh tail will be one of those life-affirming moments. Incredible!
Drink pairing: A fruity and acidic 2011 Egon M?ller Riesling QbA Scharzhof that was a good foil to the sweetness of the shellfish.
Course 2:?Kamskjell & Gulrot (Scallops & Carrot).?Raw diver scallops from Fr?ya were served with scallop mousseline, seabuckthorn gel, pickled carrots and carrot vinaigrette. This was a light and fresh dish, with the fluffy mousseline and sweet scallops cut with the sharpness of the berries and pickled carrots.
Drink pairing: A 2011 Sydre Argelette from Eric Bordelet, a wine-like cider made from over 20 different varieties of apples, whose flavours echoed that of the seabuckthorn nicely.
Course 3: A surprise extra dish arrived next in the form of a nugget of flaky white cod that had been lightly torched and topped with a sliver of poached Arctic monkfish liver. A clear buttery rosehip vinaigrette sauce was spooned over the top. This was a gorgeous dish, with the monkfish liver tasting every bit as good as the best foie gras.
Course 4:?Hvete (Wheat).?Maaemo's separate bread course was next. Here, warm bread rolls made from wheat and wild emmer flours from Holli Mill in Spydeberg were served on squares of traditional Norwegian matpapir (food wrapping paper) with individual pots of whipped salted butter from R?ros.
Drink pairing: A refreshing wheat beer from the tiny B?gedal microbrewery in Vejle, Denmark, which had spicy notes of orange and coriander seed.
Course 5:?Sellerirot & Eple (Celeriac and Apple).?Celeriac pieces had been baked in salt for five hours and were served with caramelised celeriac cream, crystal clear apple flavoured sage pearls and juices from the baked celeriac.
Drink pairing:?2008 Silvaner Sp?tlese Trocken from Rudolf May, which lent a bitter freshness to the sweet vegetal grassiness of the celeriac.
Course 6:?L?k fra i Fjor med Aquavit (Onions from last year with Aquavit).?Pristine fillets of Arctic char came served with pickled onions filled with elderflower pur?e and topped with discs of red onion gel. An aquavit and wheatgrass sauce was poured over the top tableside. The slightly raw pungency of the pickled onions was tamed with the sweet pur?e and was a great match with the oily fish.
Drink pairing: A 1998 Riesling Auslese "?rziger W?rzgarten from Jos. Christoffel Jr. Typically quite sweet, the age of this Auslese took the edge off its sugariness and it was full of lively flavours of apples.
Course 7: Another surprise extra course was this little number of fenal?r baked potatoes served with grated dried egg yolk and a dollop of warm creamy cheese from the island of Hitra. A wonderfully warming dish, with a nice contrast in textures.
Drink pairing: A powerful and heady 2010 Vir?-Cless? from Les H?ritiers du Comte Lafon in Burgundy.
Course 8:?Brent Purre med Kalvetunge (Burnt?Leek and Veal Tongue).?An immaculate dish of burnt leeks topped with veal tongue and served with dots of apple-ramson gel, a poached quail egg yolk and an acidic ramson and bone marrow sauce.
Drink pairing: A 2010 Chateauneuf-du-pape from Ch?teau de Beaucastel ? a smooth and rich white made from 80% Roussanne and 20% Grenache Blanc, whose notes of flowers and honey brought out the sweetness of the leeks.
Course 9:?Reinsdyr & Jordskokk (Reindeer and Jerusalem Artichoke).?Red meat is something of a rarity at Maaemo yet I've never felt its absence. So this dish of reindeer seemed all the more striking for it. Medium rare medallions of reindeer from Mo i Rana, just south of the Arctic Circle, were ridiculously tender with a mild gamey flavour. They were served with Jerusalem artichokes (roast, pur?e, raw slivers) and a truffle sauce.
Drink pairing: A 2006 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Prieur from Domaine Trapet ? a soft biodynamic wine full of the soft berry flavours of pinot noir.
Course 10:?Ost fra Eggen G?rdsysteri (Cheese from Eggen Farm).?A welcome return of a course I first had in October 2011. Fjellbl? blue cheese from Eggen Farm had been cooked with milk and then frozen in liquid nitrogen. It was served with a pur?e of lightly pickled black trumpet mushrooms and a sprinkling of black mushroom powder.
Drink pairing: A 1980 Mas Amiel Maury Mill?sime, an oxidative natural sweet wine made from 90% black grenache, 5% maccabeu, 5% carignan. A bold, yet surprisingly fresh sweet wine full of aromas of chocolate and figs that was a great match with the pungent cheese.
Course 11: Buttermilk sorbet served with brown butter and tea foam. A wonderful palate cleanser with a good contrast in textures. The cooling, fresh and slightly sour sorbet pairing really well with the sweetness and spice notes of the tea foam.
Course 12:?Hvete Eddik, Rug & Mj?d (Wheat Vinegar, Rye and Mead).?Ice cream made from wheat beer vinegar from Herslev brewery in Denmark was served with mead gel, burnt marzipan and a cr?me p?tissi?re made from rye bread. This, our first dessert proper, was a crazy combination of flavours that at first glance sounded a little too experimental. But what a spectacular combination of flavours! Tart, acidic ice cream, chewy nuttiness from the marzipan, sweetness from the mead, shards of rye and the soothing embrace of rye cream. Paired with a sour gueuze beer this proved to be a sensational blend of flavours.
Drink pairing: A 2012 Gueuze Tilquin, a sour lambic beer with a touch of sweetness and tart fruit flavours.
Course 13:?Sm?r fra R?ros (Butter from R?ros).?Ahhh, hello my old friend. A dish that's never been off the Maaemo menu and one that never ceases to make me smile. A smooth, light butter ice cream is served with hazelnut-butter crumble, coffee molasses and brown butter caramel. Yes, the earth did move!
Drink pairing: A special treat in the form of a 1949 Don Pedro Ximenez Reserva Especial from Toro Albal?. Shockingly dark in colour, it was smooth as silk with a long finish of dried fruits and caramel.
Coffee is never an afterthought at Maaemo. In fact it's one of the few restaurants that takes the coffee service every bit a seriously as the rest of the dining experience. At Maaemo, coffee from one of Norway's leading roasters, Tim Wendelboe, is steeped in the traditional kokekaffe (literally "boiled coffee") style over a gas camping stove so redolent of a trip in the mountains.
Maaemo usually use their own custom-roasted beans but here we were lucky to sample some award-winning Esmeralda Special from Panama. It's one of the most sought after (and therefore expensive) coffees in the world and had a complex taste of citrus, soft fruits, bergamot and flowers. One coffee reviewer describes it as "more like diving head first into a swimming pool filled with mixed fruits," and I can't say that I disagree. A glorious cup of coffee.
Petit Fours 1: Macarons infused with a subtle taste of birch.
Petit Fours 2: "Liquid waffle." As its name suggests, this one-bite wonder burst in the mouth releasing a sweet liquid tasting exactly of Norwegian waffles.
Petit Fours 3: Nitrogen-frozen granules of brunost (Norwegian brown cheese) and strawberries.
Petit Fours 4: In an echo of our first amuse bouche was this little bite of frozen n?r except this time it was sweetened with maple syrup and filled with a sweet and sour sea buckthorn gel. A cool and cleansing bite.
Petit Fours 5: Finally, some coffee ice cream made from Tim Wendelboe's espresso blend. I'm not usually a fan of coffee ice cream, finding it to be typically too sweet and creamy. Here the balance of flavours was just right and the lightly roasted espresso beans allowed the underlying citrus and berry flavours of the coffee to shine through. A wonderful way to finish the meal.
It's clear that the Maaemo team are far from content with sitting on their laurels. In fact, the team seem to have stepped up yet another gear over the winter, and this focus and precision resulted in perhaps the most comprehensive meal I've had to date at the restaurant. Each of the 28(!) courses was beautifully executed; an exercise in Nordic aesthetics and restrained luxury, full of the clean, vibrant favours that have come to characterise Esben's cooking.
On the 14th of March, Michelin's 'Main Cities of Europe 2013' guide will be published, which covers the Nordic capitals. As of writing, the Nordics have never been home to a three Michelin-starred restaurant, and the excitement is building as to what the latest guide will reveal. For what it's worth, I think Maaemo is certain to achieve Michelin's highest accolade. Having been awarded two Michelin stars a mere year or so after opening, it remains to be seen whether this gem of a restaurant will join the rare club of three Michelin starred restaurant this time round. I for one certainly hope they do, and it would be an achievement that's thoroughly deserved. But regardless of what the Guide Rouge brings, Maaemo remains one of the best restaurants I've ever been to.
Food: ? ? ? ? ?10 / 10
Service: ? ? ?10 / 10
Ambiance: ?10 / 10
Maaemo
Schweigaardsgate 15
0191 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 91 99 48 05
Source: http://www.nordicnibbler.com/2013/03/maaemo-oslo-restaurant-review-jan-13.html
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