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Tory Burch Salvatore Ferragamo Hackett Porsche Design Ted Baker Escada CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2020 58 DUBAI Home beans The inventive creations of Dubai’s homegrown coffee obsessives 58 13 71 GLOBAL EMIRATES Global south Fathima Butto on why Experience 14 Latest news 72 our media consumption Stay: From Zermatt to Dubai 16 Inside Emirates 76 is shifting in the global Can art represent cities adequately? 22 Destination: Japan 78 south’s favour 64 A guide to Baku, Azerbaijan 28 UAE Smart Gate 80 Beauty and the feast 36 Route maps 82 Looking sharp Salmon fishing in upstate New York 40 The fleet 88 Zeitgeist-setting The magic of Romania’s springs 48 Go see this: The breathtaking redesign of architecture at Dubai’s Bartending: not just a night job 52 Qasr Al Hosn Fort, Abu Dhabi 90 World Expo 66 OS_022020_P06-11_FrontSection.indd 9 1/23/20 5:32 PM 11 EDITOR’S NOTE BEAUTY AND THE FEAST If you drank a glass of white wine that had been dyed red, would you notice? Apparently not, according to a now-famous 2001 study that saw Frédéric Brochet turn wine detective for his PhD. Challenging 54 oenophiles to de- scribe a wine that he put before them, they universally used descriptors typ- ical of red wine – unaware that they were instead drinking white, tampered with an odourless red dye. The study caught fire (primarily because everyone took such pleasure at putting so-called wine experts in their place). It also became a useful prece- dent for reminding us that sometimes, all is not what it appears. Sour, salty, fat… these flavours are supposed to be detected by our tongue and roof of our mouth. Yet, so much of what we taste is linked to its visual aspect. “Pinkish-white will be sweet, yellow and green will be sour and white and blue tastes salty,” says Oxford professor Charles Spence in ‘Eating with our eyes’ (p36). Food has long been linked to how it looks. Sometimes it is to display hos- pitality, other times, wealth – banquets at the Vatican are said to include whole peacocks delivered to the table. One only needs to look at the bemus- ing popularity of the multi-coloured “freakshake” to recognise that we don’t always eat food for the way it tastes. Perhaps, though, we can still find culinary beauty in the natural. In the intrepid hunt for New York’s salmon, as told by Ali Watkins on p40, she de- scribes “hordes of slick green backs, begging to be hooked.” If we can take pleasure in the humble beginnings of our produce – as well as the final, gussied-up version, dished out in a fancy restaurant – so much the better. FOLLOW US facebook.com/ openskiesmag Georgina Lavers, Editor twitter.com/ openskiesmag instagram.com/ openskiesmag OS_022020_P06-11_FrontSection.indd 11 1/23/20 2:39 PM AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, WHERE THE SKY SWIMS IN SEA BLUE this island sanctuary welcomes you with breeze and birdsong, candlelit dinners and infinite views. 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Roger Burt, who plays Christopher Lloyd’s mad professor character Dr Emmett Brown, explains the magic Given that one of Back To The Future’s How’s your Doc Brown shaping up? is very attractive. He’s filled with a sense classic scenes is Marty McFly playing Well, when you’re playing someone as of hope. In American culture, mentors Johnny B Goode, it’s amazing there’s iconic as Doc Brown, so brilliantly and used to be so important and I would say never been a musical adaptation. indelibly rendered by Christopher Lloyd this century there’s been a little bit of a Yeah, the movie has this backbone of great in the film, you try to use what he did as breakdown between generations. Which music to the story. Marty McFly as a young a launchpad for your own performance. I is why this is such a wonderful relation- rock ‘n’ roll guitarist in high school is just mean, he is perfect in that film. There are ship – most of what he’s trying to do in the greatest excuse for our show to express certain things I completely lift from him, this show is help his friend. There’s some- itself through song in that main character. like the way he moved. But as time goes thing to cherish in that.