Word: spicing
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...dish's popularity in a war zone - a fact, Jamal points out, recognized in United Nations food relief packages. Apart from rice and lentils, mjadarah requires only onions, salt, cumin, water and samneh, or clarified butter. Jamal says the difficulty non-Arabs have finding ingredients such as samneh, the spice mix fulful bhar or bulgur, the cut wheat essential for tabbouleh, is diminishing as more and more Arabic shops open in European cities...
...scent of spice and the lure of easy money drew traders and settlers from across Europe, the Arab world, India, China, Thailand and Burma. Their diverse traditions still resonate in the heart of George Town's old city. The grand colonial architecture of City Hall, the court buildings and the Penang Museum and Art Gallery cohabits comfortably with ornate Hindu and incense-wreathed Buddhist temples, Chinese clan houses, Muslim mosques and serried rows of peeling and shuttered shophouses. Cultures collide at every intersection. A walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas...
...HONG KONG We know Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is trying to spice up his staid public image, but is that really an excuse for planting his website next to a porn palace? The territory was scandalized to discover that chtung.com?a mere three letters away from his official site chtung.org?is stuffed with links to hard-core pornography inviting intrepid web surfers to explore "Exotic Redheads" and "Asian Heat." (Or so we've, um, been told.) Tung's staff has no plans to buy out the site, but that might change if a "Foxy Regina Ip" link shows...
INDONESIA Spice Islands Deal Christian and Muslim leaders from the eastern Maluku Islands signed a deal to end sectarian violence that has killed thousands of civilians over the past three years. Negotiators met on neighboring Sulawesi island and signed an agreement to surrender all weapons and set up joint security patrols. But Laskar Jihad militants from Java, responsible for a sharp escalation in the fighting last year, were not represented...
...After his return, Ja'far might have stayed an obscure preacher in Yogyakarta but for an explosion of Muslim-Christian fighting in the Maluku Islands, the famed Spice Islands, in 1998. "We waited and waited for the government to respond and finally we gave up hope they would defend the Muslim community and decided to act ourselves," Ja'far says. His call for an armed defense force elicited a speedy response, both in personnel and cash. Within months the newly formed Laskar Jihad had sent some 3,000 volunteers to Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, a force the group...