Reportedly, the wine produced there doubles your urine output, which isn't the sort of recommendation that attracts Paris's many oenophiles.
Second, after we've gathered some numbers relating to a phenomenon, we must reasonably aggregate them into some sort of recommendation or ranking.
"If we see that over the past 90 days more money has come into someone's account than gone out, we could tell the customer 'why don't you think of opening one of these savings accounts?' That's the sort of recommendation we plan to make.
With the rise of e-commerce, this sort of recommendation software is a hot field, both inside companies and in academia.
My solitary presence, without any sort of recommendation from another author, made him receive me with significant reserve.
It gets in your head of not wanting to fall short of that the next go around and all those things, but I think we've done a good job of letting it go and not worrying about getting any sort of recommendation but just making a good record.
At the end of 2011, Noma and the excellent travel search/information site Momondo.com (also based in Copenhagen and well worth exploring) assembled a nicely designed little guide book to the city based on just that sort of recommendation: In "Copenhagen from Noma & Momondo," 40-odd members of the Noma team -- chefs, waiters, a dishwasher, sommeliers, Mr. Redzepi himself -- name their favorites.
After 21 years in business, Mr. Knoll himself provided introductions ("I give out all sorts of recommendations, from a plastic surgeon or dermatologist to travel suggestions," he said), but as a policy, only when asked.
MacAskill said it's necessary to avoid conflicts of interest and feeling pressured to "give the sorts of recommendations that make us money".
