Word: stew
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...leave aside the clutter of contradictions. Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Just because we are sitting together doesn't mean we have anything to say: children bicker and fidget and daydream; parents stew over the remains of the day. Often the richest conversations, the moments of genuine intimacy, take place somewhere else, in the car, say, on the way back from soccer at dusk, when the low light and lack of eye contact allow secrets to surface...
...hugs the river's banks. The Nile also feeds a vast network of Egyptian irrigation canals that nourish the plots of peasant farmers such as Mohammed Sorour, 43, father of seven. "All the time, we have water," smiles Sorour, who plants molokhiyya, a leafy vegetable Egyptians cook into a stew, on the east bank of the river near El Saff, 50 km south of Cairo. "If the Ethiopians ever tried to stop the Nile," Sorour says, only half joking as he fires off rounds from an imaginary machine gun, "Egyptians will attack them and kill all the Ethiopians." Such threats...
...scorned as food for the poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun delicacy. Visitors to the festival in the city of Breaux Bridge will have a chance to sample a slew of popular Southern dishes-from boiled crawfish to crawfish étouffée (a stew similar to gumbo but thicker). Other festival highlights include a crawfish eating contest, cooking demonstrations, Cajun dancing and the hotly contested crawfish races. Start pinching those tails...
...Visitors to the festival in the city of Breaux Bridge will have a chance to sample a slew of popular Southern dishes - from boiled crawfish to crawfish étouffée (a stew similar to gumbo but thicker). Other festival highlights include a crawfish eating contest, cooking demonstrations, Cajun dancing and the hotly contested crawfish races. Start pinching those tails...
Getting into the Groove Stew Design Workshop's Strata chair, crafted from 38 unique pieces of laminated plywood and inspired by geologic formations in the American Southwest, $4,400 (stewdesignworkshop.com) Opposite page: Peonies painting by Stephen Courbois made from pieces of old wallpaper, price upon request (518-321-6517); Esque's Water Drop jug, handmade from recycled glass and processed using wind power, $368 (branchhome.com) Chista's Tamarin slice table by Alon Langotsky, $2,600 (chista.net...