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...unacquainted, cricket can at first seem to be much ado about nothing. “They spend a lot of time just batting a ball into the ground and standing around,” acknowledges physics grad student and cricket aficionado Lars C. Grant. But, for the 45 cricket addicts who have gathered together in Leverett G to watch a live satellite broadcast of the 2003 Cricket World Cup, batting a ball and standing around is serious business. Among the countries of the former British Empire, there are few sources of national pride greater than securing victory on the cricket...
Brown quickly learned the move to Cambridge didn’t have to mean abandoning her first love. She spent her first night at Paine Hall watching the Boston Bluegrass festival. And across the hall from her room in Hurlbut, she found West Virginian bluegrass aficionado William W. Carter ’84. The two would soon spend every Saturday morning spinning folk records on their WHRB show, “Living Traditions in Bluegrass.” Brown still visits the station when she comes to Cambridge and has been interviewed on the “Hillbilly at Harvard?...
...jibiiru, or craft beer, from one of the country's 300 or so microbreweries. And we're not just talking about local favorites; the popular Yona Yona Ale from Yoho Brewing in Nagano and Hitachino Nest Beer of Kiuchi Brewery have both won awards at international beer competitions. Microbrew aficionado Yasuhiro Tani got hooked while living in Texas; now the 46-year-old accountant only buys jibiiru, often over the Internet. "Regular beer is generally popular but banal," he says. "Craft beer is so various in ingredients, flavors and styles that there's always something new that breaks the conventions...
...classic Marzen style are known, become available in the States. And according to RICHARD SCHOLZ, owner of Bierkraft, a beer specialty store, U.S. brewers are making truer, more traditional Oktoberfests than their Teutonic counterparts. Scholz, New York City bartenders M.J. KEANE and RORY FARRELLY, and amateur microbrew aficionado MEGAN CLARK tasted 12 currently available brews and chose their favorites for TIME...
...particularly important to pay close attention to the cilantro, according to self-declared salsa aficionado Whitchurch. “Because cilantro is an annual, you’ve got to plant a new crop each month or so to keep it going,” he says. One must also be constantly sensitive to how the plant is growing. “The cilantro got kind of leggy when it first sprouted because it wasn’t getting enough light. Now it’s under a sunlamp, and its leaves are starting to fill...