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...across the full range of human cultures, food has always been not just a vital necessity and visceral pleasure, but a social unifier and a cultural signifier. Food is art, and like literature, film, and painting, cuisine is created and evolves through dialogue; it is handed down and built upon almost like an oral epic. Each dish and ingredient tells a complex and continuing story about the people that produced it. What reaches our tables today expresses the ingenuity, love, and dedication not only of those in our modern kitchens, but those who first picked a suspicious looking morel mushroom...
Fried catfish and a rich gumbo, even more directly communicative of the history of the culture that created them, followed. Catfish—a dirt cheap, bottom-feeding fish generally looked down upon by most cuisines—is a Cajun favorite. Moist, tender, and succulent, the fish can hold its own against the nearly overpowering ingredients ubiquitous in Cajun cooking. Cajun catfish is often served “blackened”—lightly battered with a potent mix of garlic, cornmeal, flour, cumin, generous amounts of chili, and other spices—and pan fried until...
...sent to the UC’s open e-mail list, stated that Hysen may have been able to log in to the software that tracks the results of UC elections after receiving the necessary passwords from former UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 upon Sarafa’s graduation...
...mail added that upon receiving the concern, former Election Commission Chair Brad A. Seiler ’10 had originally reassured EC members that they would all receive access to voting results in order to prevent any sort of tampering from going unnoticed. He failed to deliver on that assurance, the e-mail added...
Shipping companies have been eager to find ways to deter piracy without running the risk of starting a shooting war, but the quest for a reliable non-lethal means of curbing piracy remains elusive. On Wednesday, the pirates "fired upon the ship, and the embarked security team responded with warning shots, and the pirates fired back, and the embarked security team fired back - and there was no piracy event," Gortney said. All aboard the cargo ship were reported safe; it was not known if the pirates suffered casualties...