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Karzai, who was selected by prominent Afghans to lead the country until this June, jokingly calls himself "a pauper king." He wants it that way. He tells the palace chef to dish up simple food for his retinue. "Do you know what little the people have to eat out there?" Karzai says to his chef. His office has only a single computer and a fax machine. The United Nations gave Karzai and his Cabinet officials their cell phones, and some of his ministers keep punching the wrong buttons...
...culture. To collect recipes he talked to women in many Arab countries, finding them "happy but surprised" to have such conversations. "They passed on their knowledge," writes Jamal, "but on their faces I saw total lack of confidence in me being able to produce even a simple dish...
Jamal gives tips on dining with an Arab, the most important being to go to the table starving: the host will lay on a huge spread and keep heaping your plate. For most Palestinians, of course, having too much to eat is a dream. One of the dishes in the book is mjadarah, or rice with lentils. These ingredients keep well, which helps to explain the dish's popularity in a war zone - a fact, Jamal points out, recognized in United Nations food relief packages. Apart from rice and lentils, mjadarah requires only onions, salt, cumin, water and samneh...
...with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses. If you lived through the horrors of Europe's last century, patriotic fervor is a dish that comes a little too highly seasoned with memories of nationalism, war and genocide...
...unsurprisingly, the straightforward dance tunes. Like most progressive house, these are spotlessly produced, vaguely pretty and not much else. On a good afternoon the fleeting, pulsing beats strike a nostalgic air—like trying to return to days that have long passed. Most successful is a Deep Dish mix of “True,” with its big-room “whoosh” effects, catchy little trance melody and memorable gay-themed lyrics (“I’m a man that is all / It’s true, the faggot is you?...