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EDITING WHAT WE EAT - CAN CRISPR FEED THE WORLD?
Biologists have a new tool to save oranges and other crops — if the public can stomach it.Black’s family has raised oranges here since the 1850s. For five generations, they’ve faced hurricanes, frost...
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IN VINO VERITAS
The insider’s guide to Italian wine, from the author of 'How to Drink Like a Billionaire'.If you’re going to drink like a billionaire, you have to drink Italian wine. No glass so ably matches the lusty...
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BUILDING A BACKUP BEE
Every February an extraordinary research project resumes in the south-western corner of California’s Central Valley. It takes place inside a series of huge cages that span 20 acres by a vast pistachio...
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MATA HARI - AGENT DOUBLE
15 octobre 1917, à Taube. Des soldats avancent dans les couloirs de la prison pour femmes Saint-Lazare, au coeur de Paris. Ils viennent chercher Margaretha Zelle, plus connue sous le nom de Mata...
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NIETZSCHE AND THE JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION
OVERVIEWNietzsche has been one of the most influential critics of Christianity. Like Feuerbach and other philosophers of the Hegelian Left, he was not content with merely rejecting Christianity....
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DE LA VIGNE AU VIN, 8000 ANS D'IVRESSE
Qu’on le boive coupé d’eau de mer ou épicé, pour célébrer les dieux ou réchauffer le sang, le vin fait route avec nous depuis la nuit des temps.La première goutte de vin a coulé bien loin des Côtes du...
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EMPRESS MATILDA: THE LADY OF THE ENGLISH
"The greater part of the kingdom at once submitted to the countess [Matilda] and her adherents. (Gesta Stehani)With Stephen now imprisoned in Robert of Gloucester’s castle at Bristol, the majority of...
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LES FEMMES ET LA FRANC-MAÇONERIE
Depuis l'initiation de l'Irlandaise Mrs Aldworth en 1732, les femmes ne furent admises que progressivement dans la franc-maçonnerie, et de manières très diverses selon les époques et les pays. Encore...
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CE N'EST PAS TOUJOURS LA VIE DE CHÂTEAU
Pour certains, mener la vie de château égale luxe et richesse étalés. Mais qu'en est-il A réellement au début du Moyen Age, au temps des châteaux forts? Nos connaissances en la matière tendent à nous...
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EMU ON THE MENU
Checking out diverse and eccentric flavours seems to be the hottest 'mantra' among the young, upwardly mobile food connoisseurs of metropolitan India. People a re now seen increasingly preferring...
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LES BALBUTIEMENTS DE L'HISTOIRE GRECQUE
Péninsule très découpée, très montagneuse, très ensoleillée, baignée et pénétrée par une Méditerranée bleue et tiède, telle est la Grèce. Les plaines y sont petites, cernées de montagnes escarpées et...
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THE CULTURED YOGURT
Yogurt is a semi-solid, processed and fermented milk product, mostly prepared from cow's milk. Yogurt is produced by the act of bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make this dairy...
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DIM SUM COOKING CLASSICS
INTRODUCTION'Dim sum' is a Cantonese phrase that refers to an assortment of food, each prepared in portions smaller than a main meal. In Mandarin, dim sum is called dian xin, which literally translates...
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THE CHINESE EATING MARKET
My teaching, my cooking lessons always begin in the Chinese market. Heaps of vegetables, familiar and exotic; the pork butchers; the herbalists and their shops comprise my classroom, my laboratory. In...
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RED OR WHITE MEAT
The color of meat is much more complex than picking a chicken leg or a breast. Muscle fibers are organized into different categories depending on the amount of myosin, cellular content, and potential...
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THE FUTURE EATERS
Just before the first issue of 'Cuisine' appeared, Terry Gilliam released Brazil, a darkly comic science-fiction film.One scene, set in a posh French restaurant, is worth recalling. Diners order...
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L'OIGNON
Chassant des étals les bottes d'oignons frais, les gros bulbes blancs, jaunes et rouges ramassés dans l'été arrivent pour nous accompagner tout le reste de l'année.L'oignon est si indispensable en...
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SUR UN PLATEAU - GORGONZOLA L'ITALIEN
Ce classique transalpin est le grand maestro des tendres pâtes persillées.Secrets de fabricationCe fromage doit son nom à la ville de Gorgonzola, en Italie du Nord, où les troupeaux de vaches en...
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IN BED WITH THE GREEKS
Author Paul Chrystall shines a light on sex and sexuality in the ancient world.Known for their adventurous and seemingly unconventional attitudes to love, sex and gender, the Ancient Greeks have long...
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FAMOUS LOVE LETTERS
Discover the words that wooed Anne Boleyn, the woman that inspired John Keats' poetry and more.Beethoven & his ‘Immortal Beloved’The secret identity of the composer’s lover that provokes...
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