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If you tell an Italian that you're heading to this or that city in Italy, the response is almost always the same: Oooh! Lì si mangia bene (rough translation: the eating's good there). Italians are famously proud of their own neighborhood cuisine, but they're as eager...
(2 of 2) Why is everyone so worried about cod? In Britain people eat over 172 million cod dinners a year, most of them from the fish-and-chip shop. Cod is especially vulnerable to heavy fishing, because it is a large species that doesn't reach sexual maturity until...
More recently, the Minsk has attracted a cult following among expatriates in Hanoi, who are discovering what the Vietnamese have known for decades: the hardy dirt bike is ideal for touring mountain roads, gravel roads and places where there are no roads at all. In other words, perfect for the...
Vietnamese are mystified by the large number of foreigners riding around the capital on the ungainly, smoke-billowing "peasant bike," which offers an unwelcome reminder of Soviet domination. But the foreign devotees don't care. "I may never get a Vietnamese girlfriend riding this bike," says Minsk enthusiast Digby Greenhalgh...
Coming as it does on the heels of an historic Republican victory, the race between Landrieu and Terrell has attracted more than its share of attention over the past three weeks. Recent stumping has served to galvanize members of a disconsolate Democratic Party as well as tantalize Republicans with the...