Word: apartness
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...animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally raised swine...
...Readers who want less "taking apart" and more "devouring" will be glad to move on to Reynaud's abundance of recipes based on dishes from his Parisian restaurant, Villa9Trois. They range from simple and straightforward (ham-and-gherkin sandwiches, croque-monsieur snacks) to elaborate and exotic (jugged wild boar with spelt-and-saffron risotto, pot-roast confit with lemon-flavored coriander salad). All are enticingly photographed by Marie-Pierre Morel, though some of the dishes are not for the squeamish. For example, a hearty stew introduced early in the book lists pig's liver, pig's kidneys...
...daily that reflects the views of the Supreme Leader, blasted the President for dismissing U.N. sanctions against Iran as a "piece of torn paper." A paper by the Majlis foreign-affairs committee reportedly warned about the negative economic impact of further sanctions and urged that "everything be done"--apart from sacrificing national honor--to head them...
...Apart from knowing their clients, says Jaffe, the company has recognized how the petroleum industry is going to look in the coming decades: "Halliburton is looking to the future. [The industry is] moving away from the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, and towards national oil companies. Between 1970 and 2000, 40% of the increase in oil in the world came from the majors like Shell. [But] in the next 30 years, 90% of the new oil will come from the Middle East and Africa and will not be produced by Exxon and Shell, but by the nationally owned...
...worse than they used to be. Many Iraqis now get less state-supplied electricity and water than they did under Saddam. Those who can afford it use private gas-powered generators, but the price of gas has grown manifold. Inflation is rampant: prices rose 70% last year. And quite apart from the sectarian violence, crime rates have soared...