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...holiday that celebrates survival, the hamantaschen appear too simple a sweet. The outside is not more exciting than shortbread, and the recipe calls for ingredients that can be found around the house: flour, eggs, sugar, baking soda and butter. But let nouveau cuisine invent zany combinations; tradition looms along Brookline’s Harvard Street, where the bakeries continue the age-old tradition of shaping Haman’s malice into scrumptious cookies...
...Mexico, corn is king when it comes to tortillas. So what U.S. company would be loco enough to market white-flour tortillas to Mexicans--and price them at a premium...
...Inside the sticky wrapper sat ground tofu, finely minced bok choy and tiny pieces of vermicelli. Served with soy sauce, the dumplings were a light and refreshing addition to the meal. Our other dim sum order of turnip cakes was also equally delectable. Two pan-fried squares of rice flour, turnip gratings and chopped mushrooms were served with hoisin sauce. The turnip cakes were crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside, an interesting contrast heightened by dipping into the sharp-flavored hoisin sauce...
...recent weeks, free government rations of such essentials as flour, rice, sugar and tea have been doubled to allow for household stockpiling. Remembering the fuel shortages of 1991, many Basrans are hoarding gasoline and cooking gas as well. It's accepted wisdom that power stations would be destroyed in the first wave of U.S. bombing, so the longest, most chaotic lines in the city are at the kerosene depots, where residents bring every kind of container--from soft-drink bottles to steel drums--to fill up with fuel for lamps and stoves...
...evening, he will send Adil to collect the family's rations. In anticipation of a war, the government has released two months' quota, and is encouraging people to stock up. Adil gets 70 kg of flour, 6 kg of rice, 10 kg of vegetable oil, 8 kg of sugar - and 500 gm of tea. The next guests to his home will not leave on empty stomachs...