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LONDON—Enter any cheap café in Vietnam and you are likely to be welcomed by a steaming bowl of the national dish “pho bò,” or beef noodle soup. Look around the café and you might notice something odd: almost every patron is male and almost every server is female. Go outside and the story is similar. While men wile away the days idling over iced coffee, women toil in the paddies, planting rice, gathering it, and then manning stalls to sell it at market. Holding all top political...
...Israel's violent offensive in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took time off to share a leisurely weekend lunch with a few old friends. With helicopters buzzing overhead on their way to and from the front, the group sat on the patio of an elegant private home, eating tomato soup, egg noodles and steak. What struck one participant was Olmert's inner calm, the confidence he has exuded as he leads Israel through its biggest crisis in years. "You could see the intensity in his body language," says the friend. "But he was not nervous. You could see that...
...called "the eighth wonder of the world." Nowadays the wonder is the building's eponymous restaurant, where chef Dan Silverman serves his imaginative seasonal menus. This cookbook allows the home cook to confidently re-create dishes like buttery cod with black-olive-and-onion confit or sorrel soup with smoked trout...
...many greasy spoons, or “milk bars.” Incidentally, these aren’t very milky. Rather starchy, in fact. Then again, these tubers are a national obsession, an indelible part of the Polish psyche. A particularly potato-proud Pole might serve vegetable soup with potatoes, potatoes slivered and sautéed, and a salad of creamed cauliflower and potato. All at a single Sunday dinner.The potato gained its place in the Polish pantry during “The Deluge,” a series of wars in the 17th century that left Poland in ruins...
...presence that deters mayhem, who eventually begin to build trust relationships with the locals and who, finally, make it possible to provide basic services like water, sanitation, education and electricity. According to Lieut. Colonel John Nagl, author of a recent book on counterinsurgency warfare called Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, "The tipping point comes when the residents trust you enough to tell you where the bad guys are rather than telling the bad guys where you are." coin, then, requires two things that armies are traditionally not very good at: sophisticated person-to-person skills and patience...