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The best restaurants in the world 2014
  • This 2009 photo released by Lotus PR shows green tomato gel in Brazil. Alex Atala, whose Sao Paulo-based D.O.M. is among the top-ranked restaurants in the world, is out to transform the lackluster reputation of Brazilian cuisine, not only abroad but also at home. "It's funny that in Brazil, people know so much about different kinds of pasta and can tell you all the different properties of different sorts of flour," but know very little about native Brazilian ingredients and techniques, said Atala, whose on-stage slaughtering of chickens has cemented his reputation as the bad boy of haute cuisine. (AP Photo/Cassio Vasconcellos, Lotus PR)

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