Word: markell
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Morocco is a relatively new destination for Markel, who had been limited to cooking tours of Italy. The trip adds a range of new flavors to her palette. The northern African cuisine is known for its fragrance and spice. Cumin, preserved lemons, orange-blossom water and slow-baked foods dominate. Home base is mostly at the Jnane Tamsna, a lushly appointed boutique guesthouse with organic gardens created by an American ethnobotanist and a designer who are friends of Markel's. This 17-room, six-acre estate is smack in the middle of date palms in the heart of the Palmeraie...
...crave a walk on the exotic side and want to learn some ancient cooking techniques as well, "A Feast for the Senses" in Morocco might be the trip for you. It's run by food enthusiast and entrepreneur Peggy Markel, who started Culinary Adventures in 1992. Her small outfit specializes in unique journeys that promise to immerse participants in local cooking traditions. So don't expect slickly trained chefs. Instead Markel prefers local cooks who can impart techniques that have been passed through generations...
...Markel's Moroccan excursion lasts about 10 days (March 19 to 28; $3,895 to $4,195 a person), and there is plenty of sightseeing in between the grinding and stewing. She tends to attract a small (no more than 10 people) but inquisitive group aged in the mid-40s and older, all bound by a love of adventure and traditional foods...
Legal experts agreed the week had not gone well for Stewart. Greg Markel, chair of the litigation department at the New York City--based law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, says revealing the email backfired, and Apfel may have created a chasm between the two defense camps. "It seems to me it was never a particularly strong point for Bacanovic," says Markel. "And for Martha, it played completely differently. She just looks like an ogre...
...Several defense attorneys and former prosecutors say it would be difficult to make a criminal insider-trading case against the pair because the government would have to prove that Stewart knew the significance of Waksal's sale when she sold the stock. "It's a tricky case," says Greg Markel, a securities-law specialist at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York City. A broker passing along a tip from one client to another "is not that unusual," says John Teakell, a former SEC litigator in Dallas. (In Bacanovic's case, says a defense attorney, "it probably could have been...