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• Five things to know about St-Viateur, one of Montreal's biggest bagel-makers

  21-05-2017 23:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Five things to know about St-Viateur bagel, one of Montreal's most famous bagel shops that marked its 60th anniversary Sunday:—St-Viateur was founded by Myer Lewkowicz, a Jewish immigrant ......
  
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• Pope names five new cardinals, all from outside Italy and the Vatican

  21-05-2017 22:12
  
  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is to elevate five Roman Catholic prelates from outside Italy and the Vatican to the rank of cardinal, the elite group of churchmen who are his closest advisers...
  
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• Cairo lantern-maker champions old craft against Chinese imports

  21-05-2017 19:24
  
  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian artisan who makes the traditional lanterns that adorn Middle Eastern streets during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan believes he has found a way to stop a flood of...
  
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• Once-drab Indonesian slum rejuvenated into 'Rainbow Village'

  21-05-2017 17:46
  
  SEMARANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - A slum area on Indonesia's Java Island has become an unlikely tourist attraction, as well as a social media hit, after its homes were painted vivid colors to transform...
  
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• Study finds that speeding up sepsis care can save lives

  21-05-2017 17:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Minutes matter when it comes to treating sepsis, the killer condition that most Americans probably have never heard of, and new research shows it's time they learn.Sepsis is ......
  
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• Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

  21-05-2017 13:00
  
  This month, we head to Italy to learn about Massimo Bottura’s Food for Soul project, and to Lebanon to witness how a restaurant is bridging sectarian divides, while classic recipes are supplied by Jane GrigsonWe get around. This month we have a packed edition for you with stories from Yorkshire, Milan, Chichester and Beirut. Jay Rayner has been up and down the country meeting some of the non-UK farm workers whose lives could be changed forever by the horror that is Britain’s departur
  
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• Uber for wine: and all without grapes

  21-05-2017 13:00
  
  Ava Winery wants to re-create drinks in the lab, including some chemically identical to expensive old wines. Will it work?The most fascinating wine project I’ve come across this year has no need for vineyards, barrels, or,a winery. It doesn’t even use grapes. If you believe what the people behind the project say, they could be on the brink of challenging everything that people hold dear about wine.Though they don’t quite put it this way, Ava Winery could be as disruptive in its
  
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• Taste test: champagne and sparkling wines

  21-05-2017 13:00
  
  Vintage, rosé, prosecco, cava and English – Bubbledogs’ sommelier and co-founder Sandia Chang tastes and rates high-street fizzes Continue reading...
  
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• Sir Peter Blake: ‘All a country has is its culture; the rest is infrastructure’

  21-05-2017 13:00
  
  On the eve of Sgt Pepper’s half-century, the pop artist shares stories of his classic album sleeve, snubbing Warhol and why he hasn’t paid a bill in Mr Chow for 50 yearsI meet Sir Peter Blake in Mr Chow, the institution of a Chinese restaurant opposite One Hyde Park, where flats sell for £75m. Blake knew the restaurant’s eponymous owner in leaner times. He first met Michael Chow, he explains as we sit down, when the restaurateur was living on a camp bed in the garage of t
  
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• Nigel Slater’s asparagus recipes

  21-05-2017 13:00
  
  Asparagus may be easier to come by these days, but its delicate flavour still needs carefully chosen companyI made a small bowl of mayonnaise to go with a bunch of asparagus. Not the classic recipe you might expect, but one made by beating the eggs, oil and mild grainy mustard with sweet, white miso paste. Mustard and miso is a good marriage. The dressing worked a treat with a plate of mid-season spears from the greengrocer.Asparagus is still a huge treat. No matter how much its price comes down
  
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• Massimo Bottura and his global movement to feed the hungry

  21-05-2017 12:00
  
  The Italian is one of the finest chefs in the world. But his greatest achievement is Food for Soul, his project to feed the poor and cut food waste, now about to open in LondonMassimo Bottura is running late. You imagine this is probably a perennial condition. In the previous week, as I know from various emails, the man who was in 2016 voted the number one chef in the world, has been in Tokyo, Melbourne and London, returning between each trip to cook at Osteria Francescana, his three Michelin-st
  
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• AP Exclusive: Strapped UN health agency spends big on travel

  21-05-2017 11:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel — far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems ......
  
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• ‘The kitchen has no religion’: the Lebanese activist offering hope through food

  21-05-2017 11:00
  
  With a farmers’ market, and a string of restaurants and B&Bs, Kamal Mouzawak is helping Lebanese women and Syrian refugees to transform their livesKamal Mouzawak grew up in Jeita, a small town in the mountains north of Beirut, during the Lebanese civil war. One of his earliest memories was when his mother was out of the kitchen and he decided to make a cake. He thought to himself: ‘What is a cake?’ He stirred a slurry of flour, sugar and eggs in an empty sardine tin because
  
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• Fifty years after Six Day War, Jerusalem retains much of its old look

  21-05-2017 10:19
  
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will soon mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, a conflict in which it captured the Old City of Jerusalem and more than two dozen Palestinian villages around it...
  
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• OFM’s classic cookbooks: Jane Grigson’s Good Things

  21-05-2017 10:00
  
  Lindsey Bareham recalls one of Jane Grigson’s finest works, a 1971 collection of early columns for the Observer colour magazine. Plus six of our favourite recipes from the bookWhen Good Things was first published in 1971, I was consumer editor of Time Out in a very run-down King’s Cross. We lived on a pittance but I was learning to cook, often inspired by Jane Grigson’s column in the Observer colour magazine. One of my first successes was the curious sounding curried parsnip so
  
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• Ed Balls: my boozy lunches with Eddie George – and the famous Granita dinner

  21-05-2017 09:59
  
  The ex-chancellor recalls the Strictly tour, the ‘lasagne plot’ and what Nikolas Sarkozy thought of American foodWhen I was five, Dad did a job-swap and taught biology at Eton, so for a term I attended a nearby primary school and, each lunchtime, had to march to a building where a very strict woman would blow a very loud whistle if anyone spoke a word while eating. All my memories of that term are of awful, very frightening meals.Dad took a post at the University of East Anglia and w
  
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• Len & Alex Deighton’s Italian Cookstrips: Erbazzone

  21-05-2017 09:00
  
  Len Deighton: Erbazzone – a delicious “cucina povera” dish found throughout Emilia Romagna. Greens, cheese and pastry originally cooked in a cooling bread oven.Alex Deighton: A purist might say we’ve used too much pastry. Len Deighton is the author of the Action Cookbook and French Cooking for Men (HarperCollins) Continue reading...
  
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• Who needs a door handle on a freezer? It’s a ‘cosmetic’ item, says Zanussi

  21-05-2017 08:00
  
  It cracked, then broke, but the company refuses to repair itTwo years ago I purchased a Zanussi freezer from my local John Lewis. It  is still working well, except the door handle recently developed a crack in the middle and has now broken completely. I wrote to Zanussi hoping for a replacement because this appears to have been caused by a manufacturing fault. I was astonished to hear back that the handle is considered a “cosmetic” item. I had expected an excuse about
  
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• The eco guide to unusual materials

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  Fabrics such as cotton come at a dear cost to the environment. Look for progressive alternatives made from pineapples, eucalyptus, even mushroomsFuture generations will shake their heads at our loyalty to a handful of fibres with terrible environmental profiles, such as cotton (thirsty for pesticides and water) and plastic (oil based). They’ll want to know why we didn’t display more imagination.Many innovations in the fashion industry have a distinctly mushroomy flavour Continue read
  
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• Suzuki Ignis: car review | Martin Love

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  No one knows more about petite ’n’ poky cars than Suzuki – prepare to let the new Ignis broaden your horizonsPrice: £10,249
  MPG: 65.7
  Top speed: 106mph
  0-62mph: 13.5 seconds
  CO2: 97g/kmAwwww! You know that noise you make when you watch a silly video of a dandelion-fluff kitten fighting with a ball of wool? Well, that’s the same sound you’ll make when you first set eyes on this ditsy, dinky, cutesy little thing from Suzuki. It’s the all new Ignis and, tho
  
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• Plot, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  As the gentrification wave reaches Tooting in south London, a new diner makes itself at home in the local marketPlot, Unit 70-72, Broadway Market, Tooting High Street, London SW17 0RL (020 8767 2639). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80It would be a mistake to write about Plot, a sliver of a restaurant serving terrible cocktails and great food in one of south London’s traditional covered markets, without first rehearsing the arguments around gentrification. It demands tha
  
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• My treasure trove home: world tour in a flat

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  A jewellery maker’s flat is bedecked with artefacts from his travelsWhen the door to Peter Adler’s flat opens, it’s like entering Tutankhamun’s tomb or Ali Baba’s cave. There isn’t an inch of wall or floor without its treasures, brought back from Peter’s travels. The flat is like a grand bazaar: India jostles with Thailand, Bali, China, Japan, Peru, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria.Where others might have a shoe-rack in their hall, Peter, owner of jewellery c
  
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• Let’s go bananas: growing the leaves in your back garden | James Wong

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  Banana leaves are surprisingly easy to grow – and now is the perfect timeI grew up in Singapore, and lunch every Thursday at my school canteen was nasi lemak. This was a neat little parcel of coconut-scented rice, crisp fried peanuts and curry, all wrapped up in a fresh green banana leaf. Functioning as a sort of flavoursome, botanical tinfoil, these stunning, paddle-shaped leaves are central to cuisines from southeast Asia to Latin America and Africa. For when food is cooked wrapped in th
  
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• Join the tourists on a trip to Brexit land | Eva Wiseman

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  See an iconic black cab, listen to Farage’s LBC show, watch the 4-mile queue of lorries at Dover and put a straight banana in your pocketThe New York Times is offering readers the trip of a lifetime. For $5,995, holidaymakers can join “experts” on a trip they’re calling “Brexit Means Brexit!” Leaving on 22 October they will take a group to London to “Meet with politicians, journalists and historians to discuss Britain’s decision to leave the EU and
  
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• How your brain decides how you vote | Daniel Glaser

  21-05-2017 07:00
  
  When it comes to making decisions our brains are as simplistic as our election processAs the election draws nearer many us feel dread at how a complex array of issues facing our country gets squeezed into a winner takes all, first past the post voting process. It doesn’t seem right that the diversity of the electorate’s views is simplified into a simple decision. But that’s the way it works.And, strangely enough, this is exactly how the brain works, too. Neurones either fire or
  
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• Why men should keep a journal | Ollie Aplin

  21-05-2017 06:59
  
  Writing down how you are feeling has immense mental and physical health benefits – and men need it most, says Ollie AplinHistory is littered with men who kept journals, from Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Lee to Winston Churchill and Thomas Jefferson. They couldn’t be more different, yet these men had one thing in common – they found strength and comfort through writing down their thoughts.Professor James Pennebaker, who specialises in social psychology at the University of Texas,
  
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• My son wants to be a pop star and hates school | Mariella Frostrup

  21-05-2017 06:59
  
  The path to fame and fortune is no easy ride, says Mariella Frostrup. That’s the best lesson parents can pass onThe dilemma Our son has given up on study. He has never really enjoyed school. He complains that teachers don’t know how to control classes, feels he learns very little in a day and questions the ritual humiliation he experiences through PE. He is intelligent, but also sensitive with a passion for music. He is talented and spends nearly all of his time playing guitar or reh
  
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