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...MILAN The annual Identità Golose (Jan. 27-30, 2008) in Milan, inaugurated by Italian food writer Paolo Marchi four years ago, has become the pre-eminent event for avant-garde chefs: Heston Blumenthal of the Fat Duck in Bray, England; Andoni Luis Aduriz of Mugaritz in Spain's Basque country and the ubiquitous Ferran Adrià of El Bulli in Spain have already confirmed. Carlo Cracco of Cracco-Peck is one of several daring Milanese chefs showcased at the fair, which will also offer workshops on bread, pizza and Italian patisserie. Top local restaurants offer special degustazione...
...fair, not every historical miracle was earth-shaking or, for that matter, without controversy. Consider St. Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao, whom Pope Benedict XVI canonized last December. Galvao, who died in 1822 (he was on the slow track) was a Franciscan monk in Sao Paolo who distributed "pills" that were actually folded bits of rice paper bearing the prayer: "After birth, the Virgin remained intact. Mother of God, intercede on our behalf." Believers swallowed them for various ailments. After Galvao's death, nuns in his monastery took up the pill production. According to England's Daily Telegraph...
...interested to see the portraits of Iranians by Paolo Woods. I am an 11-year-old whose only images of Middle East life have been of people fighting or working at low-paying jobs. I was pleased to see that Iranians do much the same as we do in the West. They have jobs as dentists and teachers, and they engage in leisure activities like swimming. The illustrations were particularly helpful in changing my views. Nikhita Moudgil Telford, England...
...interested to see the portraits of Iranians by Paolo Woods. I am an 11-year-old whose only images of Middle East life have been of people fighting or working at low-paying jobs. I was pleased to see that Iranians do much the same as we do in the West. They have jobs as dentists and teachers, and they engage in leisure activities like swimming. The illustrations were helpful in changing my views. Nikhita Moudgil Telford, England...
...trendy Scandinavian penthouse: white floors, outdoor jacuzzis, ambient grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military and academia: the captain once commanded the Chilean Navy SEALs, the expedition leader was in command of Augusto Pinochet's bodyguards, and Gian Paolo Sanino, the scientist who leads the ecotours, wrote Chile's new law on whale and dolphin watching. His payoff? He gets to conduct baseline research in an area where very little cetacean research has been done. "We always complain the private sector doesn't sponsor science," says Sanino. "Now they...