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Speaking of a changing world, in the book you describe some long-lost food practices that are making comebacks. When we traveled to Nicaragua, a local chef knew we were coming. He had heard about this cheese Nicaraguans used to make, which died with the Sandinista movement 30 years ago. It's a fresh cheese they hung in the jungle, and it would become infested with maggots, and then they would eat it - it was an increased protein source. So this chef did the same thing, and we show up and cut into it, and there's maggots crawling...
...staff and its institutions, we were shocked and pained by this immoral subversion of our own publication of record. Some of us are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and were deeply hurt by the implication that those stories passed on to us of our past—of lives lost and families destroyed—were all lies concocted by a vast Jewish conspiracy. Like President Obama, we can view such “baseless” sentiments with nothing but revulsion. That the Harvard Crimson would choose to fund its activities with money garnered from the promotion of such...
...just A Beautiful Mind or Proof either. In Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar wins over his long-lost girlfriend when she's about to marry his arch-rival, by reciting the poem that she had tried to get him to read aloud when they first met (and made out) in a library...
...Bottles labeled with the logo of a swan - a reference to the name for a particular pipe on the still - are showing up at the city's smartest bars, restaurants and shops, including the Met Bar, the Dorchester and Harvey Nichols. Clearly, Galsworthy and Hall are making up for lost time. See more at www.sipsmith.com...
...Other entrepreneurs around the world have also won against McDonald's claim to its famous prefix in recent years. In 2001 McDonald's lost a nine-year legal battle against McChina Wok Away, a Chinese takeaway in London, and in 2004, McDonald's lost a trademark-infringement suit against a Singaporean firm that had used names like MacNoodles, MacTea and MacChocolate. "It opens the way for them and other [Malaysians] to use the Mc prefix without fear," says Sri Dev Nair, the Suppiahs' lawyer...