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...Hansa, the local brew. On Thursdays, crowds pack the place for Valle's raspeball-potato-and-flour balls served with turnip mash-but weekends are the busiest, when both locals and tourists turn up for the true flavor of Norway. "You can't buy Norwegian food in the [supermarket]-it's always going to be pasta or pizza," says Valle. "For 20 or 25 years we've been so focused on food from the rest of the world, we've nearly forgotten our own tradition." Pingvinen reminds Norwegians what good taste was, and still is. For reservations, call...
...signatures; Montfort merchants have expressed their solidarity by tying white strips of cloth outside their stores; and marches and rallies continue drawing large crowds. "Everyone is aware immigration policies are a necessary evil, but even evils have to have some heart," says a local supermarket employee who only gives her name as Linda. "These Malians are now in our hearts, and if the French authorities applying French immigration policies aren't moved by that, then I'll be disgusted and ashamed to be French...
...London is about to ramp up, providing more jobs. Many Poles in London are "well-qualified workmen with very good experience," says Adam Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who has invested in his own stoneware business in London and who hires mainly Poles. Tesco and Sainsbury's, the British supermarket chains, are stocking up on Polish brands...
...world where prewashed, precooked and preprocessed foods are usurping ever more supermarket shelf space, it's easy to forget the origins of what we eat. For those who enjoy sausage but would rather not dwell on its provenance, this ignorance is bliss. For those with more curiosity, there's a book: Pork & Sons, a collection of ruminations and 150 rustic recipes in which the star isn't bacon, black pudding, salami or Speck, but the creature that is the source of these culinary treats...
Next, consider a well-meaning yet largely apathetic, consumer who miraculously discovers his deep feelings for the poor after reading the “fair trade” pamphlet at his local supermarket. He is somewhat uncertain about how a fixed price benefits Guatemalan farmers, but congratulates himself anyway on his newfound moral strength...