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This year, the cows had no good news for Cambodia's farmers. Each year before the planting season commences, all eyes in the capital turn to a pair of hungry royal oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible...
...superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
Tucked away in a 1903 Art Nouveau building in central Istanbul's Beyoglu district, Changa, www.changa-istanbul.com, is the granddaddy of the pack. New Zealand-born chef Peter Gordon serves Turkish food with a twist: dolma (vine leaves traditionally stuffed with rice) are wrapped around grilled halloumi and served with a sweet chili sauce; grilled octopus, a local seafood classic, comes with Asian-style sweet and sour miso sauce; and local lamb is accompanied by Tunisian harissa...
...chopped with sun-dried tomatoes and a roasted red pepper sauce and baked in filo pastry. In the same Beyoglu area is Cezayir, www.cezayir-istanbul.com, a restaurant-bar converted from an Italian primary school and a favorite with hipsters. Here, tandoori chicken is served with the unlikely accompaniment of pistachio rice, and liver paté is accented with Aegean herbs...
...Meanwhile, Rice is using a photo opportunity to send a message of her own, Thursday, having invited the press to watch her viewing an exhibition of Iranian art and chatting up the visiting artists at an international center in Washington. "It makes clear that we have no problem with the Iranian people," McCormack says. "We want more interaction with them. It's a great culture. It's a great country and we shouldn't let any of the policy differences between the United States and this Iranian Government get in the way of those kinds of exchanges." The Administration hopes...