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Geopolitics

After Sandy: Meanwhile In Haiti…And Staten Island

THE CARIBBEAN JOURNAL, CNN, NBC, AP (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch Haiti is pleading for international help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as more than a million Haitians risk being victims of food shortages. The Caribbean Journal reports that Johan Peleman, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ […]

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Food / Travel

Doesn’t The EU Have Anything *Butter* To Do?

The Luxemburg-based European Court of Justice ruled this week a product the Czechs call butter is not butter, which means that the beloved spread known as “pomazankove maslo” (“spreadable butter”) can no longer be labeled as such. Non-Czechs would never have called it butter, which it bears no resemblance to – it doesn’t even really […]

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Global Gourmet

Argentina’s Nueva Cocina: Fusion Stirs Life Into Traditional Recipes

BUENOS AIRES – Steak sushi (a sushi roll filled with cooked steak), served with grape leaves, quinoa and Malbec barbecue sauce. From the very first pages, the new authority on Argentine cuisine, entitled New Argentine Cooking, is provocative, to say the least. In this book of 224 recipes from 31 Argentine chefs, mountain empanadas made […]

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Food / Travel

Yum Or Yuck? A Chinese Reflection On Global Cuisine, Culture And Crabs

SHANGHAI – The Shanghai hairy crab, also known as the Chinese mitten crab, is considered a great delicacy in China. But, not so much in Germany where each year from late summer to early autumn mature Chinese mitten crabs begin their migration up the Elbe River. As they travel to the North Sea to get […]

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Food / Travel

Taste Of Crisis: France’s Michelin-Starred Chefs Offer Deal Worthy Of Burger King

LE FIGARO (France), LA REPUBBLICA (Italy) Worldcrunch PARIS – World famous elite French chef Alain Ducasse has his own response to the economic crisis, which sounds oddly similar to a Burger King back-to-school offer. “Buy one, get one free…” is the offer available to food lovers in the world’s gastronomic powerhouse. From September 17 to […]

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