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Does all this sound familiar? The hyping of a previously unknown green that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind...
My worry is that ramps will soon become as passé as arugula, and that seasonal-minded cooks will take up another spring product, like the fiddlehead fern, as the green of the moment. There is nothing good about the fiddlehead fern. It's not even the wild cousin of...
From Yunnan eastward through Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi, parts of the country have not had rain since October and approximately 24 million residents are short of water. In March, Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, toured Yunnan for three days, pledging governmental aid and advocating water-conservation efforts. Chances are that...
A week after a violent uprising ran him out of the capital, Kurmanbek Bakiyev had been refusing to concede the presidency of Kyrgyzstan, holing up with his family and hundreds of bodyguards in the south of the country - specifically, in his native province of Dzhalalabad. Special-forces units loyal to...
Meanwhile, Bakiyev's brother Zhanybek, the ousted head of the security service, has warned of a civil war if anyone tries to storm their compound. Is the only country in the world that hosts military bases for both Russia and the U.S. again on the edge of a bloody civil...