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...something a little more sophisticated, there's Restaurant Bobby Chinn (www.bobbychinn.com). The star of Hanoi's growing foodie set, owner-chef Bobby Chinn offers first-class food at developing-world prices, with entrees like aromatic green tea-smoked duck and braised pigeon wrapped in rice paper. The eclectic and lavish setting - including a red-silk hookah lounge with suspended white roses - reflects Chinn's Egyptian-Chinese-Kiwi roots. The origin of the popular codeine-tablet cocktail is less clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spice of Hanoi | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...Comparative Zoology. And there it has stayed for the past hundred years, an avian imposter.But the bird lives on—in the genetic material Harvard researchers recently extracted from the London dodo carcass. Their analysis? Genetically speaking, “It’s basically a big fat pigeon,” said Berry, who co-authored the book “DNA: The Secret of Life” with genetics pioneer James D. Watson. “If we were to stick it into a chicken genome, it wouldn’t be a chicken with a dodo?...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ode to a Faux Dodo | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions of The Thousand and One Nights. After a pair of grilled fresh sardines comes the masterpiece: a plain dry couscous of ethereal lightness, as hot and fine and white as the sands of the Sahara. It takes two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Ever ... Couscous: Saharan Staple | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...Daisy, 18, charmed the audience with their 1950s-style rockabilly that echoed Johnny Cash during his days with Sun Records even though they come from just up the road in North London. It was only when the evening set in that the more familiar bands such as The Pigeon Detectives and Cajun Dance Party pried fans away from the shade and their Frisbees. Over at the MySpace stage, hardcore rock bands like Blood Red Shoes even managed to muster a moshpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes from Underage | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...Rising Spirit Bend your right knee and extend your left leg. Join your hands in peaceful submission, lift your face to the heavens and...what’s that? Is that a...OH FUCK, a pigeon just shat on my face, oh man that is DISGUSTING...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yoga Made Simple | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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