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Friday, October 18, 2013
Harvest Brings Farm Families Together, Redefines Commitment
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What The World's Newspapers Are Saying
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A newsstand in Rome.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican led the website of Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
At the end of their 25-minute meeting, the pope gave Abbas a pen, which the Palestinian Authority president said he hoped to use "to sign the peace agreement with Israel."
The pope replied: "Hurry, hurry," according to the newspaper.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan recently called for a national dialogue in his ethnically and religiously divided country.
He announced the formation of a committee that would hold discussions on resolving differences in Nigeria. But, as the Vanguard newspaper reports, Nigerian lawmakers say that the committee's final outcome must first pass through them to become law.
Here's how Reuters describes Nigeria's religious makeup:
"Nigeria's nearly 170 million people and 250 ethnic groups, split roughly evenly between Islam, which dominates in the north, and Christianity, prevalent in the south, mostly live side by side in peace. But the country suffers bouts of bloodshed over land where the two religions meet in the middle.
"The oil producing Niger Delta is a haven for criminal gangs who steal oil and kidnap, while the Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands and destablised swathes of the north."
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La Tercera reports on Chile's efforts to win a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council.
The General Assembly elects five new countries to the council on Thursday. Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia are looking for spots. All are virtually guaranteed a place on the 15-member council because none of the races are contested.
This would be Chile's fifth time on the council. The previous occasion was in 2003 and 2004. That was when Chile refused to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Chile's term would last from January 2014 to December 2015.
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From the Philippines, a story of hope amid the earthquake Tuesday that killed more than 100 people. The Inquirer reports:
"Two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary stand — without any blemish — amid the ruins of two churches in Maribojoc and Loon towns following Tuesday's devastating earthquake. It was enough for residents to raise their hopes that life will get better."
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Found Recipes: Dr. Klaw's Authentic New England Lobster Roll
The key to Dr. Klaw's lobster roll is to keep it simple.
Gabriella Herman
The key to Dr. Klaw's lobster roll is to keep it simple.
Gabriella Herman
Lobster may be a sign for all things high-end these days, but there is nothing fancy about the humble lobster roll. The origins of this lobster-mayo mashup in a bun are misty and factious, but the idea is that it started as a roadside treat, a way to offload an overabundance of lobster quickly and easily.
At least, that's what Ben Sargent says.
"You didn't have to put a bib on, there was no cracking," he says. "You just stopped on the side of the road and had this unbelievable bite of something you just never knew could be so good."
Sargent knows a thing or two about lobster rolls. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Sargent spent his summers fishing, surfing and hanging out in his grandfather's tackle shop on Cape Cod. In his book, The Catch: Sea-to-Table Recipes, Stories and Secrets, Sargent writes about watching his grandfather as he flawlessly cooked New England culinary standards. Sargent says he's caught lobsters every way you can, including with his bare hands.
But what gives Sargent crustacean cred is a stint in New York City's illicit lobster roll trade.
When Sargent moved to Brooklyn a dozen years ago, he was shocked by Gotham's take on the humble seafood sandwich, calling the New York City lobster roll "too chef-y."
"This sounds ridiculous but there was too much lobster. It had too much mayonnaise, it had a garnish, it was spilling out over the top," Sargent says. "It was trying to be impressive because if you're going to charge $30 for a lobster roll, it's got to look like $30."
So he went underground — literally. Sargent set up shop in a basement apartment and started pumping out about 200 lobster rolls a day. He sold them for $14 — cash only, word of mouth, only in secret — under the alias Dr. Klaw.
To get one of Dr. Klaw's lobster rolls, his customers sent a text to a secret cellphone number, and at any given hour Sargent, as Dr. Klaw, would hand off a steaming, delicious roll.
"Dr. Klaw had a very, very religious following of lobster roll aficionados," Sargent recalls.
He kept Dr. Klaw shrouded in mystery because he was operating illegally.
"For the most part you never really saw Dr. Klaw's face," Sargent says. "Dr. Klaw operated mostly at night and was essentially a hand that would come out of a mail slot with a lot of bling, a lot of gold jewelry, and it handed you an illegal lobster roll."
But then, it all fell apart. He says one of his most loyal customers accidentally ratted him out.
Sargent came home to find a cease-and-desist order from the city health department. The city had found out Dr. Klaw's secret identity and told him if he didn't give up his trade he'd go to jail. It didn't help that his landlord got the notice, too.
Things have gone all right for Sargent since then; he went on to own a handful of restaurants and host a show on the Cooking Network. But he still misses being the self-styled seafood-slinging gangsta known as Dr. Klaw.
"Every night was such an adventure when I was Dr. Klaw. There was the high rolling, the money, the women — you name it. It was a pretty wild lifestyle," he says. "And I don't think I'll ever do it as Ben. It's just not as much fun."
Dr. Klaw's Lobstah Rolls
There are three secrets you have to follow to make the perfect lobster roll: 1) Keep it simple — keep the green stuff out of the mix, and never ever add celery. 2) Steam the lobster in a salty bath. 3) Never toss out the lobster liquids that are in the shells. That liquid is like lobster extract or lobster flavor on steroids.
Courtesy of Ben Sargent
Courtesy of Ben Sargent
Serves 6
1 large onion, halved
2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
4 large garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon black peppercorns, cracked
4 (1 1/2-pound) lobsters
8 tablespoons (1 stick) salted butter
1 teaspoon garlic powder
6 top-sliced hot dog buns
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
Fine sea salt
Old Bay seasoning
1. In a large clam or lobster pot, add 2 inches of water. Put in the onion halves cut sides down and add the coarse sea salt, garlic, bay leaves and black peppercorns. Bring to a boil over high heat.
2. Put in the lobsters head up, the first two sitting on the onion halves, and loosely stack the other two lobsters, making sure all the lobsters are evenly spaced apart. Cover and cook over medium-high heat until bright red all over, about 6 minutes. They will be a little undercooked for a reason!
3. Transfer the lobsters to a large rimmed baking sheet and let cool. Working over the sheet to collect all the lobster juices and fat, twist the tails and the claws from the bodies. Pull off the tail ends or flippers from the tail shells and push the tail meat out of the shells with your thumb. Cut down the top of the tails and discard the dark vein. Twist the knuckles from the claws. Cover the claws with a kitchen towel and, with a mallet or the back of a large knife, gently crack the claws on both sides to loosen the shells from the meat. Break the shell off of the claws and pull out the meat, preferably in one piece. Break up the knuckles and push out the meat.
4. Cut the tails down the center and give all of the lobster meat just a few chops; the meat should be in nice chunks. You should have about 5 cups of meat. Put the meat and the collected juices in a large skillet and set aside.
5. Heat a griddle. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt the butter with the garlic powder and stir. Open the hot dog buns and brush only the insides with some of the garlic butter. Toast the buns on the hot griddle on medium-high heat until golden brown and crisp, about 2 minutes per side. Reduce the heat to medium if the griddle gets too hot.
6. Very gently reheat the lobster meat over low heat until barely hot. Remove the skillet from the heat, stir in the mayonnaise, and season with fine sea salt. Pack the lobster meat into the toasted buns and drizzle each with a little more of the garlic butter. Sprinkle with Old Bay seasoning and serve right away. You should have a nice pink-orange sauce developing around the meat as a result of the mayo and lobster juice cooking just a bit.
The cooked lobster meat and juices can be refrigerated overnight. Bring to room temperature, then reheat very gently if you are assembling the rolls the following day. Save the lobster bodies and shells for bisque or stock. Store in the freezer for up to one month.
NOTE: Lobster rolls should taste like lobster, not celery! Just use a good sweet hot dog bun, big chunks of lobster, a little mayo and some butter, and you will have perfection.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Greatest Living Figure Of Chasidic Music
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Modzitzer sect of Chasidic Judaism, which originated in the Polish town of Modzitz, is known for its beautiful melodies. Among the most emblematic and prolific composers in this tradition is Brooklynite Ben Zion Shenker — who, at 88, continues to create new works.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NprProgramsATC/~3/m_B7p6l_jqc/the-greatest-living-figure-of-chasidic-music
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You’ll Pay for This, GOP
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“There are no winners here,” President Obama declared at the White House this morning. Then, with an elegant air of nonpartisanship, Obama began to fashion the shutdown into a political weapon. Here’s how he’s going to deploy it.
1. Economic excuse. Obama noted that before the shutdown, the economy was recovering, and the deficit was falling. The fiscal standoff changed all that: “Every analyst out there believes it slowed our growth.” Obama rattled off the damage: families going without paychecks, home buyers and small businesses unable to get loans, consumers cutting back on spending, CEOs reporting that the fiscal anxiety had “set back their plans to hire over the next six months.” Even the “threat of default,” said the president, “increased our borrowing costs, which adds to our deficit.”
Today, this litany of laments looked like simple compassion from the president. But over the next year, it can serve as an excuse. If economic growth or deficit reduction isn’t where we’d like it to be, Obama can blame the shortfall on the “Republican shutdown” or the “Tea Party shutdown.” He’d be following in the footsteps of his predecessor, who spent three years after Sept. 11, 2001, blaming economic disappointment on the damage done when “the enemy hit us.”
2. Republican downgrade. Two years ago, when Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s credit rating, it cited our high deficits as well as the 2011 debt ceiling standoff. Ever since, Republicans have argued that the deficits, not the standoff, caused the downgrade. This time, we haven’t been downgraded, but we’ve been put on a credit watch by Fitch, another ratings agency. And this time, there’s no ballooning deficit. Obama wants to make that difference stick. He wants the downgrade threat of 2013 to reinforce the Democrats’ narrative about the downgrade of 2011. “The agency that put America’s credit rating on watch the other day explicitly cited” the congressional standoff, Obama pointed out. The Fitch report, he went on, said that “our economy remains more dynamic and resilient than other advanced economies and that the only thing putting us at risk is—and I’m quoting here—‘repeated brinksmanship.’ ” “That wasn’t a political statement,” Obama added, politicizing the statement.
3. National security. Even after killing Osama Bin Laden, Obama is constantly accused of weakness. No matter what he does in Iran, Egypt, Libya, or Syria, the old portrait of the Democratic president as soft on foreign policy never goes away. What usually helps Democrats in this area is economics. Their devotion to American labor at the expense of free trade comes across as tough on foreigners. But the fiscal showdowns of 2011 and 2013 could add a new twist. This morning, Obama reported that U.S. diplomats have
been hearing from their counterparts internationally. Some of the same folks who pushed for the shutdown and threatened default claim their actions were needed to get America back on the right track, to make sure we’re strong. But probably nothing has done more damage to America’s credibility in the world, our standing with other countries, than the spectacle we’ve seen these past several weeks. It’s encouraged our enemies. It’s emboldened our competitors. And it’s depressed our friends who look to us for steady leadership.
If Republicans stage another big fight over the next debt ceiling, that would be three in a row. It might facilitate a significant political development: the transformation of debt payment into a national security issue. Republicans could become the deadbeat party. Obama seems quite willing to attack them from this angle. And in framing economics as the key to American power, he has reality on his side.
4. The value of government. What happened in 1995 and 1996 has happened again: Closing the government has made Americans miss it. In his remarks today, Obama proposed,
One of the things that I hope all of us have learned these past few weeks is that it turns out smart, effective government is important. It matters. I think the American people, during this shutdown, had a chance to get some idea of all the things, large and small, that government does that make a difference in people’s lives. You know, we hear all the time about how government is the problem. Well, it turns out we rely on it in a whole lot of ways. Not only does it keep us strong through our military and our law enforcement—it plays a vital role in caring for our seniors and our veterans, educating our kids, making sure our workers are trained for the jobs that are being created, arming our businesses with the best science and technology so they can compete with companies from other countries. It plays a key role in keeping our food and our toys and our workplaces safe. It helps folks rebuild after a storm. It conserves our natural resources. It finances startups. It helps to sell our products overseas. It provides security to our diplomats abroad. So let’s work together to make government work better, instead of treating it like an enemy.
Congratulations, Tea Party. In the midst of Obamacare’s glitch-ridden debut, you did the one thing that could make us love our government: You took it away and held it hostage. Don’t expect any thanks from the president you helped.
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Lamar Odom -- Eating Armenian, But Still RAIL THIN
Lamar Odom
Eating Armenian, But Still
Rail Thin
Lamar Odom ate out last night -- Armenian, of course -- but emerged from the restaurant looking scarily thin ... especially for a guy trying to make an NBA comeback after a months-long drug binge.
Lamar and some friends hit up Gavar Cuisine in Glendale, CA -- and he walked out sporting his customary Nike warmup, white tee, and interestingly ... a rosary.
LO thinks he can kick his drug habit without rehab AND return to game-shape for the upcoming NBA season, so ... if anyone could use religion it's him.
But judging by his gaunt frame ... what he really needs is a couple of double-cheeseburgers.
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