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...lifestyles would make people abandon their ancient diets, we still find happiness in the basics. India has a number of varieties, from state to state and region to region. Within India, Kerala is famous for its lunch of more than 20 dishes followed by four or five sweets, a feast found at almost all wedding parties. Kerala meals could be an added attraction for hungry foreign tourists. A. Jacob Sahayam, Thiruvananthapuram, India...
...lifestyles would make people abandon their ancient diets, we still find happiness in the basics. India has a number of varieties, from state to state and region to region. Within India, Kerala is famous for its lunch of more than 20 dishes followed by four or five sweets, a feast found at almost all wedding parties. Kerala meals could be an added attraction for hungry foreign tourists. A. Jacob Sahayam, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA...
...dinner with Cohen almost every Friday night during their time at Harvard, recalls a particular meal when her friend introduced herself to 50 or 60 people at dinner and evoked laughs. “Here was this Friday night Jewish dinner and she was comparing it to a Ghanaian feast, bringing the world together in a sense.” Cohen’s involvement in HASA, including a stint as social chair this past year, facilitated friendships that fostered a better understanding of the continent. “I really got to know such a wide range of people...
...corruption. Furthermore, 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 promise of oil revenues must feel completely irrelevant to their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their rice shoots wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know the answer, they aren...
...garbage on the capital's eastern edge, where the hypermarkets throw out meat and vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food. There are "plates, dresses, jewelry, liqueurs, TVs, dvds, fridges...