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...there ever a fruit as sensual as an avocado?" Bayless writes. "So rough-hewn, dare-to-touch-me masculine on the outside, so yielding, inviting, soft spring green and feminine inside?" Was there ever a chef as passionate about a cuisine as Bayless is about Mexican food? Now that America is beyond the "spaghetti-and-meatballs stage" of Italian cuisine, the award-winning Chicago chef is determined to move north-of-the-border cooks beyond the taco. Thanks to Bayless's 26-part PBS series, Mexico: One Plate at a Time, and this luscious new cookbook, he just may succeed...
...Palestinian youth in a yellow T shirt teeters on Herod's massive wall, hewn from limestone more than 2,000 years ago, and throws stone after stone at the Israeli riot police. Below him, a middle-aged Jew flees the barrage, holding on to his black yarmulke as he runs, shouting, "Death to the Arabs!" A minute before, these two were praying in the midday heat--one at al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam, and the other 100 yards away at the Western Wall, revered by Jews as the place of prayer closest to the site...
...clearances that restored some order to the dangerous streets of Sydney were the first of many modifications to the city's fabric. Old Sydney was a stone town. The softly glowing Hawkesbury sandstone, seemingly designed on some primeval color wheel to complement the Australian sun, sea and sky, was hewn from quarries in the suburbs of Bondi, Maroubra, Neutral Bay and Pyrmont. It built some of the city's greatest landmarks: the Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, St. Mary's and St. Andrew's cathedrals. Granite came from as far away as Scotland, sitting as ballast in passenger...
What's the draw? Simple, painstakingly hewn, often monochromatic pieces that remain constant from one season to the next. "I don't think customers have to be walking billboards for me," she says. As for her clientele, they are "smart girls or really skinny guys." Adeli, 33, was born in Iran and tagged along with her mother to the family tailor to watch him stitch clothes out of fine European textiles. Now living in New York City, she looks for ideas in flea markets or thrift stores, a sketch pad always handy. "I can walk around the city and still...
...Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding at a mental-hostpital check-in desk; he was on probation because he hadn?t hurt anybody before. And the First Amendment says that even Neo-Nazis must be deemed harmless until they prove us wrong. This being frontier-hewn America, which because it cannot forswear all its guns forswears almost none of them, a Buford Furrow is bound to happen, and will happen again. This time, everybody survived but a substitute mailman, who had an absent colleague?s route that day. "He was just in the wrong place...