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...buttery cent. Mortadella, the region's famed processed pork meat, is believed to have arrived from Celtic conquerors who were used to eating their meat in paté form. Though now considered a poor-man's sandwich filler, mortadella used to be made from the finest cut of the livestock, before production was increased and popularized after World War I. Tamburini is convinced that the region's trademark tortellini must have arrived from China. "The form is too perfect, too precise for us to have invented," he says. Motioning toward some of the 90 different cheeses and 95 pasta shapes...
...litters a year of which all six cubs would survive. From negligible numbers 20 years ago, there are now 100 resident adult leopards in an area half the size of Hong Kong; there are 35 in Bori Budruk alone. With food supplies limited to rats, stray dogs and livestock, leopards found the switch from goats to humans all too easy to stomach. Nature bites back...
...really serious action takes place in the livestock pavilion, where young boys take horses for test rides while men huddle, endlessly debating the value of fat-bottomed sheep. Some unlucky beasts go straight to nearby teahouses to be made into kebabs...
...might be adding milk from a cloned cow to our coffee. Scientists, policymakers and others convene in Dallas this week to debate the possibility. That's because farmers and biotech firms are already cloning prize livestock. A National Academy of Sciences report says research vouches for the safety of by-products from cloned animals but calls for more study. If cloned animals end up in the food supply, will consumers know it? Probably not, says one of the report's authors, because "if companies can show that their milk or meat is substantially equivalent to those from noncloned animals...
...food ends up on the tables of communist officials and bureaucrats, not average Cubans, a charge that Castro angrily denies. "Millions of tons of food have been distributed free to six million people" since a hurricane ravaged the island last November, insisted Castro, who reveled in feeding U.S. livestock for photographers. If Cuba can't pay for any of the food purchases it signs for during this expo, he said, "we'll give [Cason] $100 million." (Cason had no reply...