Ferran Adrià (Current Biography, 2006)
Adrià’s food is often written about as if it were the result of not just an advanced culinary education but a scientific one as well.
Portia Simpson-Miller (Current Biography International, 2006)
Born into a working-class home in rural Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller has risen through the political ranks to become her country’s eighth prime minister since it gained independence from Great Britain, in 1962—and the first woman to hold the office