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...trade - which he dubs Anglobalization - that still thrums today. But Ferguson's Empire balance sheets show some creative accounting. Though he dutifully frowns on the horrors of slavery or, say, the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, in 1898 (in which 10,000 Muslims were annihilated in five hours by Lord Kitchener's Maxim guns), few such moments make it into the debit column. "The question is not whether British imperialism was without blemish," Ferguson writes. "It was not. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to modernity." There might have been, he admits, but he clearly...
...LORD'S TABLE Potato peeling isn't always the first step of a storied culinary life. But for Jeffrey Lord, chef and owner of Betelnut on Koh Samui, skinning spuds at Chez Panisse?the cradle of California cuisine?was the start of a cooking career that has carried him around the world. His intimate yellow dining room on a quiet side street off Chaweng beach is worthy of his beginnings. If ever two cuisines were dying to meet each other, they're Thai and Californian, and Lord brings them together brilliantly...
...Betelnut, Lord is as much an attraction as the food. He's an exuberant raconteur who delights in overruling his guest's orders. For starters, Lord firmly suggests either the crab cakes mingled with kangaroo and served with nori or the tortillalike summer roll stuffed with scallops, shrimp and sesame sauce. And when my dinner companion chooses the blackened mackerel, Lord refuses to give it to him. "You'll be much happier with the soft-shell crab," he says as he walks away with the menus. Grudgingly, my tablemate later concurs that the soft-shell crabs with green papaya...
...point during the meal, Lord tells the table that he has been reviewed positively in the Dutch edition of Playboy. He runs to the kitchen and returns with the well-thumbed magazine. No one at the table can read Dutch, but the review is adjacent to a photo of a universally understood naked Naomi Campbell. Who wouldn't be happy with such placement...
...million is how much U.S. moviegoers spent to see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the epic's first two weeks in theaters...