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...rediscovering old-style foods - notably, that Christmas- season staple, the chestnut. At Monaco's Le Louis XV restaurant, chef Franck Cerutti has been dazzling patrons with fresh takes on such down-home dishes as vegetable stew with chestnuts and fennel, and a light blini, the hearty Russian cousin to the crepe, made with freshly ground chestnut flour...
...China as “my abandoned child. I’ve messed up our relationship so badly, I don’t know how to talk to her anymore!” She spent the summer researching in Beijing, where she battled homesickness, language difficulties and a Buddhist cousin who wouldn’t kill the mosquitoes and ants in her home. This same cousin tried to convince Kuo that handing out food and blankets to the homeless only increases their material desires...
What makes Sardinia so hospitable to long life? Orroli's young and old alike debate the local secret that keeps people kicking. "It's the air!" insists the cousin of a 97-year-old woman who still makes pasta by hand. It's the homegrown vegetables, says a 96-year-old retired shepherd. Others contend it's the pure groundwater, the close familial bonds that ensure the elderly are cared for, the local penchant for an almost obsessive moderation in all things. Most seem to agree that a daily glass or two of red wine is indispensable. Frau, who turns...
...forced into exile with her family when she was 10. She was brought up as a traditional Muslim girl in Kenya, although her father was progressive enough to insist that his daughter receive an education. At 22, confronted with an arranged marriage to a distant cousin in Canada ("I was repelled by his comment that I would bear him six sons," she says), she decided to escape to the Netherlands. Right from the start she felt pressure to conform from the Somali community in the Netherlands. But she resisted. "I wanted to be part of Dutch society, to be financially...
...Crazy Cousin John was surprisingly well-behaved. But, man, Homicidal Uncle Albert went nuts! Blood everywhere. What a mess...