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...rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy rice wine making a comeback in South Korea these days, thanks in part to a national grain surplus. Surprised burglars are spotlit by incandescent moons. Young lovers do amorous things in barley fields while dogs couple in dusty streets. Fauna make their appearance throughout Ko's work - he jabbers lovingly with crabs and cuttlefish and applauds croaking frogs and other critters. "Accept my respects, uncle boars," he offers in one poem. In another, he consoles an insect who shares his sunless cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: The Korean Peninsula | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...beer companies have found other ways to get their products into Indian glasses. Brewers have used joint ventures, dedicated local breweries and local contract farmers to expand distribution and lower their costs. SAB Miller, for example, contracts 10,000 farmers in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan to grow barley for all the beer they sell in India - including Foster's, which is branded as Australian but brewed in India. The company has been operating in India since 2000, and last year made a profit of about $7.5 million on $230 million in revenue - enough to convince it to invest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tapping into India's Growing Alcohol Market | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...scoops quinoa, barley, or any other cooked whole grain (salad or entr?...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seasonal Superfood Salad | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...lean-to garage in Ravenscourt Park, an unassuming residential suburb in London's west, seems an unlikely setting for a copper still, but it's perfect for the artisanal barley vodka and dry gin being produced by two men whose names make them sound like the leads in a Merchant Ivory film - Stamford Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...raging, to say the least. We struck up a conversation with the director of research Bodo Stern, who had consumed at least one bottled blend of hops and barley by the time we started discussing the possible move-in to Northwest of MCB professors and their labs currently located in Fairchild Biochemistry Building down the street...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: An Unhappy Hour for MCB | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

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