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Recently, these sugars have made their way onto the shelves of health-food stores like Whole Foods and gourmet specialty outlets like Trader Joe's, Williams-Sonoma and Dean & Deluca. As a result, home cooks can now take advantage of the caramel, crunchy tang of large-crystal, raw-cane demerara from Malawi or the toffee-infused taste of dark, sticky muscovado from Mauritius. Simon Cutts, bulk-foods manager for the Wild Oats national specialty chain of natural-food stores, says the consumer demand for these sugars mirrors the organic-food boom, with sales growing at a rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't That Sweet! | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...produce. "I make a real effort to buy legitimate brown sugars as opposed to those that are dyed," says Mary Canales, pastry chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., which has a reputation for supporting small organic farmers and using minimally processed ingredients. Canales suggests using large-crystal demerara to add a crunchy topping to muffins or cookies; she also recommends dark brown muscovado as the perfect complement to simple baked fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't That Sweet! | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...artful patisserie after the neighborhood versions she visited in Paris during her tenure at Le Cordon Bleu. But specialty sugars have added a whole new dimension to her baking. There are little gems, such as her dainty financier cake made with pineapple muscovado jam; brioche that sparkles with demerara sugar; and kouing-aman, a buttery, caramelized cinnamon-flake pastry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't That Sweet! | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

Small Network. In fact, Guyanese are far from united, but the country stands out in South America these days because of its surge toward a socialist economy. Guyana began nationalizing its major industries in 1971 with the takeover of the Canadian-owned Demerara Bauxite Co. Declaring that "I was always a socialist," Burnham has said that he hopes to establish not a Marxist state but a "cooperative republic"; so far, however, a network of small farming, marketing and labor cooperatives involves only a fraction of Guyanese society. Last week, as Opposition Leader Jagan noted with satisfaction, the government announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUYANA: Burnham Leans to the Left | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

British Guiana is equidistant (1,450 miles) from the Canal and Natal, Brazil, hub port of the South Atlantic. There the U. S. Navy will build two air bases - a patrol plane squadron base and airdrome 25 miles up the Demerara River, a seaplane base near Suddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Bases Chosen | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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