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...Someone will have to pay for this mess, and not just the cows. The European Commission says its budget can cover only a 10% decline in beef sales, which would leave governments to prop up national markets on their own. That means a higher bill for grumpy, tofu-eating taxpayers. Which is why those European politicians who ignored warnings about the threat of bse and then lied about it are frenetically trying to shift blame for the crisis. French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said last month that Britain should be "morally condemned" for spreading the disease on the Continent...
...fans of Eastern action epics, Yuen is revered as the deviser of artful torture for Asia's top actor-athletes: Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Sammo Hung (Magnificent Butcher), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master) and Michelle Yeoh (Wing Chun, with its amazing battle over a plate of tofu). In period epics and modern cop dramas, his heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. His melodrama is never mellow: a little girl is bundled in dynamite (The Red-Wolf); a heroine battles a predator...
RUNNER-UP: Joy of Cooking: All About Vegetarian Cooking (Scribner; $19.95) It's hard to imagine Irma Rombauer cooking up a skillet of tofu. But 21st century palates will appreciate this creative tome...
...Total number of federal prisoners, now offered meatless cuisine like veggie burgers and barbecued tofu...
...careful to get enough iron, zinc, calcium and B12. (B12 is not found in vegetables.) Yet most experts agree that the diet is eminently manageable. "It's easier to absorb and maintain the necessary nutrients if you eat a little bit of meat or fish," says Bier. But beans, tofu, peanut butter, broccoli, milk, eggs and whole grains can provide protein, iron, calcium and zinc...