Preparation time: 5-6 minutesCooking time: 3 minutesTo serve: 4 You will need3 oz. Crab meat4 tablespoons peanut oil1 small spring onion, shredded1 oz. Bamboo shoots, shredded5 eggs; salt½ teaspoon monosodium glutamate6 tablespoons chicken stock; pinch sugar1 teaspoon soy sauce; 2 teaspoons tomato ketchup1 teaspoon cornflourLettuce; radish, tomato; cucumber Remove any soft bones from crab meat […]
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Cooking time: 6-8 hoursPreparation time: 45 mins.Main cooking utensils: 1 or 2 ovenproof bowls, foil or wax paper For 12-16 servings:1 cup all-purpose flour1 cup fresh soft bread crumbs1 teaspoon each mixed spice, cinnamon, and nutmegScant cup shredded suet½ cup brown sugar1 dessert apple, grated1 small carrot, grated¾ cup chopped candied peel2 eggsScant cup currants1⅓ […]
4 servings You will need3 oranges, peeled and thinly sliced2 tart apples, cored and thinly sliced1 cup cooked, sliced beets (reserve liquid)1 cup pineapple slices or chunks2 bananas, peeled and sliced4 large radishes, thinly sliced1 head lettuce, shredded½ cup peanuts, chopped½ cup pine nuts, chopped (optional)Seeds of 1 pomegranate, or ¾ cup fresh cranberriesDressing: ½ […]
Preparation time 35-40 minutesCooking time 30-35 minutesServes 6 What to prepare:2 lbs. beef fillet7 ozs. Mushrooms7 ozs. Chicken livers2 lbs. puff pastry1 eggOilSalt, pepper (For best results for this dish, follow directions carefully).Sauté meat on all sides, in a pan, for 2 minutes. Rinse the mushrooms, and chop into thin pieces. Chop the liver finely. […]
4 eggs, separated4 ounces sugar4 ounces plain flour, siftedPinch of saltStrega liqueur (or a mixture of cognac and rum)½ pint double cream, whipped¾ pint vanilla pastry cream (see below)1 pint chocolate pastry cream (see below)2 ounces chopped nutsCoarsely grated orange peelChopped glacé cherries Combine eggs and sugar in the top of a double saucepan and […]
In this Sanctions Watch, covering December 2022: Seized Afghan assets languish in US-backed trust fund while Afghans prepare for a grueling winter; US lawmakers meet with the president of Cuba and denounce the US embargo; UN experts denounce environmental degradation and loss of life as a result of sanctions against Iran; US, Japan, South Korea […]
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The great question of America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan was not whether the Afghans were fit for democracy. It was whether democratic values were strong enough in the US to be projected onto a traumatized society seven thousand miles away. Those values include the accountability of the people in power, the consistent and universal application […]
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In his opening address to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow at the beginning of November, Boris Johnson evoked the end of a James Bond movie in which the hero is “strapped to a doomsday device, desperately trying to work out which colored wire to pull to turn it off, while a red digital […]
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In 1989, as the Berlin Wall was breached and the political order of Europe was upended, two obscure people in their mid-thirties watched it happen from inside an imploding Communist state, the German Democratic Republic. In Dresden, Vladimir Putin, an agent of the KGB, burned secret files in a furnace at the intelligence agency’s headquarters. […]
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There is the war, and then there is the war about the war. Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine is being fought in fields and cities, in the air and at sea. It is also, however, being contested through language. Is it a war or a “special military operation”? Is it an unprovoked invasion or a […]
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