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...corruption, and there has been little transparency in the awarding of exploration contracts to foreign oil companies. Longtime Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed concerns that oil will be anything other than a huge boon for his country. But for the poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the potential of oil revenues must feel completely removed from their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their crops wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know the answer, they aren...
...Turkey has a history of fusion food. The imperial Ottoman kitchen prided itself on blending recipes and ingredients from across its vast territories: Circassian chicken and Arabic hummus, to name two. For Ottoman flavor, head for Asitane, www.asitanerestaurant.com, in the Old City, which re-creates dishes served at a feast given by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1539, based on archival research. The sumptuous menu reflects Greek, Persian, Arab and even North African influences. The Sultan, it turns out, was an early fan of fusion...
...food isn't wonderfully creative and fresh. Brother-and-sister team Joana and Joaquim (Quim) Perez Sanz are the fifth generation to man the bar since it was founded in 1914. Elbow your way to a space at the narrow standing-room-only counter, then prepare for a preserved feast in miniature: maybe a roll topped with artisanal canned mussels and the sweetest diced tomatoes with a dollop of caviar, or rillettes of goose confit with caramelized onions and truffle oil, followed by house-marinated anchovies with sun-dried tomato and a delicate green tapenade of salt-cured capers. Even...
...failure, then of drudgery, loneliness and a future in a land that will never quite be home. Back in Fujian, Big Lin had a decent job with a construction firm. He made enough to play games of pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave, so Big Lin made preparations in 1997 to go abroad, too. More than anything, he recalls, he wanted to see more than the rice paddies, potato fields and squat factories of his hometown. "I wanted to make lots of money," he says...
That's not how things used to be. Ernest Hemingway once wrote that, "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast." Such a thought may have held true for a generation or two of Europeans and Americans, inspired by the youthful and sometimes rebellious spirit of the French themselves. But these days, the feast seems to have moved elsewhere - and a growing number of young French people are going with...