Word: iceland
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Reykjavík ICELAND...
...aesthetics, with prices to match. At Umu, London's most ambitious kaiseki restaurant, Kubota goes to extraordinary lengths to bring a Kyoto accent to the land of fish and chips. That means flying in speciality vegetables and Kyoto's soft water for the signature clear soup. He trawls from Iceland to Madagascar for fantastic fish. Grated Shizuoka wasabi - not that fake electric-green paste - accompanies the tsukuri, a sashimi course elaborately composed on handmade ceramics. Fragrant matsutake mushrooms evoke autumn, while Kobe beef melts in the mouth like foie gras. Dishes like sesame tofu are nods to Kyoto's Buddhist...
...Really Big Catch Iceland resumes whaling Hey, Ahab! Breaking a 20-year global moratorium on commercial whaling, Icelandic authorities plan to begin issuing licenses to hunt 40 minke and endangered fin whales through next August...
...loving women they’re doomed to lose, and the dark, satanic sky that lights all roads at midnight.But that opening line sticks with you. Something’s different.For one thing, this is the most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous album Oldham has created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes?...
...have a list of six or seven expansion opportunities. The one in Oman will be finished in early 2008. Oman was chosen because of its abundance of natural gas. We're considering expanding our Iceland plant based on geothermal electricity--very clean, renewable electricity at reasonable cost. That fits into Alcan's philosophy of developing energy resources to support our smelting and is similar to what we've done in Canada, where we own our electric requirements and generate it through hydropower...