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Hot! Hot! Nummy! Nummy! I made these last night, froze them and cooked 2 servings for supper tonight, to try them out. They are excellent! (with a crisp salad) (Better Homes & Gardens)
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- 1 cup crushed corn flakes
- 1 tablespoon finely snipped parsley
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1⁄3 cup bottled bleu cheese salad dressing
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 -2 teaspoon bottled hot pepper sauce (Tabasco)
- celery rib
- bottled bleu cheese salad dressing
- Combine crushed corn flakes, parsley and salt in a shallow bowl or pie plate.
- Cut chicken breasts into strips about 3/4 inch wide and 3 inches long.
- Combine the 1/3 cup dressing, water and Tabasco in a large mixing bowl.
- Add chicken, stir to coat.
- Roll chicken pieces individually in crumb mixture to coat.
- Place strips on foil lined baking sheet.
- Freeze till firm, about 2 hours.
- Place frozen strips in a freezer container.
- Cover and freeze up to 1 month.
- To serve, heat oven to 425°F.
- Place frozen chicken strips in a single layer in a lightly greased 15x10x1 baking pan.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or till meat is no longer pink in centre and crumbs are golden.
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Honduras Diaries
Our coffee director, Byron Holcomb, is frequently called upon to visit coffee-producing countries and report in from the front lines. His latest trip to El Salvador and Honduras brings us his fourth report.
Honduras is amateur cowboy hour. To leave the country they charged me $38, CASH ONLY. There are no signs at all in the airport. No monitors showing which flights go to which gates. The 2 monitors that I found that work only show "on time" and "CANCELADO". Passing through security they combed through by bag and found sunscreen (less than 3 oz.) "If you want to take this you need to buy a plastic bag to put it in. You can buy them over there and come back for your tube." 50 cents later I get my sunscreen back. I leave my customer service expectations in the US. But this place clearly doesn't want you to float out of here. They want to suck you dry for every penny you have left.
Last night over dinner with the manager of Beneficio Santa Rosa de Copan, they were asking me what Honduras had to do in order to actually enter the US market. I told them about the success of tourism in Costa Rica and Jamaica where people are totally moved by their surroundings and mediocre coffee and they give all the credit to the coffee. Quality may sell itself, but the end consumer in the US doesn't have any idea that Honduras produces brilliant coffee. Of course 10 years ago when Costa Rica, Guatemala and Colombia had solid quality and very well-funded marketing programs, Honduran producers were selling at wet parchment to intermediaries that would end up as flavor base. So they are way behind.
The stark contrast is how some of these guys work. Omar, Douglas, and Humberto are so excited and passionate about coffee they wake up early, stay late and drive through these sleepy dirty towns like they were propelled by some supernatural force. They walk like New Yorkers. For example, I was kinda pissed that they didn't show me the coffee I asked for based on only looking at the elevation, variety, climate and aspect and soil last year (it won the Capucas Coffee Competition this year). I told them that again last night. Somebody woke up at 4am and drove a sample to me this morning before 6am when I left Santa Rosa. Truly incredible effort put forth.
Want to know why Honduras is all of a sudden producing more coffee than Guatemala? Because of a lot of the work done in Western Honduras, much of the coffee is actually staying in Honduras. It isn't being sold as Guatemalan or coffee from El Salvador.
In El Salvador they are nerdy and "want to be part of Europe" (according to Susie Spindler). In Honduras they are cowboys and farmers. Every where I've been in Honduras they are planting coffee. Their production should skyrocket in the next two or 3 years. They are excited about coffee. They have some beautiful coffees. Truly balanced, diverse, incredible coffees. But they are treating their coffee only slightly better than they have in the last few years. Most of the coffee is sold at wet parchment (really the worst case scenario for quality and traceability).
I crossed the border by bus and spent the first day with Roberto Salezar the manager of COCAFELOL. They have some great coffees, incredible potential. The Saul Melara Hondo CoE #8 from last year came from one of his farmers. They showed me one farm, then "invited" to a meeting with the World Bank that was reviewing some funding. They had farmers, Spanish NGO's, people from the coop, local development agencies and me. Really they had everyone but a barista. The people from World Bank had really great questions about relevance of Honduran coffee and the US market demands and how certifications are valued. The crux of their proposal was micro-lots and I tried to explain how Honduras has great potential in this market. The timing was great for them to have a buyer present.
The most impressive part of COCAFELOL was their aguas mieles (waste water) management. They take 100% of the water and make 3 products: bio ethanol, methane gas, and liquid fertilizer for foliar application to coffee trees.They take the pulp and use vermiculture (earth worms) on the largest scale present in Honduras. Really incredible.
We bought a microlot from this wonderful family: Dionisio Sanchez. I went to their farm—it is just down the road from Finca Liquidambar. I spent most of the day with them. Walked almost the entire farm, visited the namesake waterfall "La Cascada". They are warm wonderful people. When I told the father I was getting married, without hesitation he said, ". . . and you didn't invite me!" I instantly invited him. When we said goodbye he said, "if by chance I don't make it to your wedding, send her my best". They have a wonderful farm. And their coffee is one of the best lots produced in the region this year, according to everyone I talked to. They aren't taking the artisan approach. The are taking the farmer approach. They build their soil with organic and some chemical inputs. The lot that they sold came from two tablones, all Catuai in great health, depulped, dry fermented for 16 hours, washed and patio dried. They have a laguna for aguas mieles. They produce a pretty large amount of coffee and hope to double it in the next couple years. They did some soil tests this year, but can't recite the results. In El Salvador, when I asked about the pH of a farm, they knew it. "Oh this farm has a pH of 3.8, the other farm has a pH of 5.4 because it hasn't been worked for the last few years."
Dionisio's son Renen sent me with a sample of a natural process that he did for fun but it was too wet. They still have some random coffee cherries in the trees so he might be able to redo it and send it to us. They were eager for feedback and we shared lots of ideas about coffee management.
El Salvador Diaries: Part III
Our coffee director, Byron Holcomb, is frequently called upon to visit coffee-producing countries and report in from the front lines. His latest trip to El Salvador, for the annual Cup of Excellence juried competition, brings us his third report.
The top two coffees of the 2012 Cup of Excellence El Salvador were standout polar opposites. Number 1 was so fruity and big that we all suspected some type of special process. Number 2 was elegant, citric, balanced, and clean floral—it really defined floral.
The guy who won first from the farm, Ernesto Mendez from Las Brumas, was shaking so badly after he won he looked terrified. He has won before. I talked with the manager at JHill, Mario, (the guy who processes the coffee for Aida Batlle) about the winner. Mario called it before it happened. Apparently he had been testing the cherry sugar levels with a Brix meter—which can measure the sugar content of fruit—and was able to calibrate himself with the meter. He picked the coffee from 1650 meters. It was a red bourbon, de-pulped dry and dry fermented. After the awards ceremony I left with the manager from JHill to stay at JHill for the night so that I could cup our coffees there, and talk more specifics about how a special process lot that I had requested happened. I was pretty happy with the results and they followed my instructions to the letter.
Then I asked the owners Rafael and Carmen Silva of Finca Siberia to pick me up and take me to see some of their farms. I was pretty keen on seeing Finca Siberia, which won like 23rd this year. Several years ago they changed my life when I had their Pacamara at Batdorf and Bronson. But they had a newish farm that won 7th called Llano Grande, it was crazy delish on every table. We toured their farms on 4-wheelers. It was too much fun. We saw a bunch of the farm and the farm manager was there too. La Fany isn't huge but it has everything going for it, aside from the name, which they don't know where it comes from—has been in their family for generations. 100% Red Bourbon, diverse shade, high altitude, a great market all over the world, they keep every tablon separate and sell it that way.
There are some other farms that come from Rafael's family that looked even better to me. Slightly lower elevation but not such a south-facing aspect, and the soil just looked better, the farms smelled better. This sounds crazy but when they told me they didn't know the cup quality until recently and they were lamenting that it was submitted to CoE. Soil health = quality, usually.
At one point on our tour, we came a across seven guys all with M-16's in full camo fatigues. They looked like they were packing for a camping trip. Apparently things are so bad here they are being dispatched to farms looking for gangs. They were packing clothes and a map. Every night they would sleep in a different farm. The sergeant had 4 clips on his chest and carried his M-16 like it was a wrist watch. He had that cool confidence you would expect from a movie star. I asked to take his picture and he looked to the right. I asked the question a second time to see if he understood me. He clearly did. "Now I know, thanks," I responded as I lowered my camera. Rafael chimed in, and urged, "Let him take your picture!" He looked at Rafael and said, "es proibido". No smile, no head nod, he shouldered his bag and lead his men off to a farm for the night.
Rafael pulled me aside and told me the real reason we didn't go to Finca Siberia was because of the risk. Apparently there are a couple different gangs. One is involved in drugs. The other "just likes to kill people". They will wait for people to leave a specific area and when they are on these terrible roads they stop them take everything you have. At the dry mill on Llano Grande there were 4 guard dogs and two armed guards. This isn't Disneyland.
The next day I spent with Luis Rodriguez and Maria Jose. I visited two of their farms. Very different from the heavily fertilized and organized farms that I saw earlier in the week. I love how serious people are in El Salvador about coffee. They are total nerds. Note: most people use central wet mills to process coffee. Luis told me about a common practice to evaluate a sample: take 100 cherries before it is depulped. Weigh them, count defects, floaters, then put them in a press for 5 minutes and weigh the expressed juice, measure the Brix, and like 5 more things that I can't remember. In one mill they did all this and then correlated it against cupping scores.
Apparently the Brix test had no correlation with cup quality. What did correlate is the amount of muscilage expressed out of the cherries. The more muscilage the higher cup score. Luis is excited because of this variety that he found on his farm Elefante produces up to 14 drops of muscilage from one cherry when Bourbon is like 9 drops. Rumor has it this is one of the early developments of the Tequisik variety that I saw in Guatemala this year.
Luis is one of those crazy honest awesome people. "Luis when are you going to sell us (Dallis) some coffee? We'd love to buy some?" "Byron, I think I might have a 10 bag lot to show you, but it isn't our best, there is nothing wrong with it, it is actually quite nice, but not really what you want." Wow, somebody who actually listens when I communicate our specs.
I've got more stories from Honduras. But that will have to wait for the plane ride tomorrow.
Dallis Bros. Takes the Obies!
The annual Village Voice Obies are coming fast upon Broadway on Monday, May 21—and we're more than excited to be providing coffee to all the talented nominees and attendees who'll be sitting on the edge of their seats! If you're attending this New York tradition, we'll see you there!
Dallis Bros. Coffee at Brasil: A Magical Journey
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NEW YORK, NY – May 10, 2012 –"Brasil: A Magical Journey," Macy's seasonal salute to South America's most captivating country, kicks off at the retailer's world-famous flagship at Herald Square with a Carnaval-inspired celebration featuring the fashion, food, music, dance and art of Brasil on May 15th. The enchanting evening will bring the best of Brazil to New York City's most iconic department store for a unique cultural celebration at a spectacular gala that will feature the sights, sounds and tastes of Brazil.
From Bossa Nova and Samba to Capoeira, Macy's Herald Square will set the stage for internationally acclaimed musicians Bebel Gilberto and Sergio Mendes, Globo TV's famous telenovela stars Fiorella Mattheis, Raphael Viana, and pop music sensation Fiuk bringing the spirit of Brazilian culture to life. In addition to the festivities, the night will give back to the local communities in Brazil with a $50,000 donation to the BrazilFoundation and a silent auction benefitting the organization's community led projects and efforts in empowering the region. A spectacular runway fashion show, an art exhibition featuring the works of 27 Brazilian artists and epicurean delights from Rio's renowned celebrity chef Felipe Bronze will cap the evening's celebration.
Providing a window into Brazil's vibrant food and drink scene is renowned celebrity chef Felipe Bronze of Oro Restaurant in Rio. At the gala, he'll present his re-imagined modern Brazilian cuisine. In addition, Dallis Bros. Coffee will serve a very special single origin coffee, Brazilian Fazenda Nossa Senhora Yellow Bourbon Micro-lot, from their proprietary farm in the Alta Mogiana region of Brazil.
Chef Felipe Bronze, a shining star in Brazil's glistening culinary universe, combines classic techniques with indigenous Brazilian ingredients to create his interpretations of modern Brazilian cuisine. He attended the highly respected Culinary Institute of America, then staged at Le Bernardin and Nobu before returning to Brazil in 2001. He attracted the attention of journalist and gourmands for his work in several of Brazil's top kitchens before striking out on his own to open Oro. Chef Bronze's restaurant Oro, in Rio de Janeiro's Jadim Botanico district, opened with the height of critical acclaim: He was named "Chef of the Year" by Veja Rio Magazine and Oro was proclaimed best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro by O Globo/Rio. Felipe is slated to star in his own cooking show on Globo TV Network, Brazil's largest television station.
During the celebration, Chef Bronze will present regional Brazilian ingredients in unexpected forms, such as Feijoada Spheres, in which he transforms the homey national dish, a meat and bean casserole comparable to cassoulet, into elegant passed hors d'oeuvres. His menu for the evening draws on the culinary culture and singular ingredients of Brazil, including Brazil's famous berry, açai in a surprising twist on the popular Brazilian beverage, açai and tapioca. Other featured dishes include rich braised pork belly perfectly paired with pineapple. Sweets include a luscious avocado cream with Brazilian nut praline and chocolate ganache tart. Chef Bronze will also take the stage for a demonstration of his modern technique with the preparation of Feijoada Spheres, and Nitro Caipirinha, a molecular gastronomic version of the classic cocktail featuring cachaça, the rum that can only be made with Brazilian sugarcane.
Adding to the culinary experience is Dallis Bros. Coffee, iconic New York coffee roaster since 1913. Showcasing the company's deep relationship with Brazilian coffee, Dallis Bros. Coffee will serve a very special single origin coffee from its own state-of-the-art proprietary coffee farm, Fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida, located in Brazil's Alta Mogiana region. The unique coffee, Brazilian Fazenda Nossa Senhora Yellow Bourbon Micro-lot, sparkles with plum acidity and notes of honey, graham and citrusy amaretto. The enthusiasm and expertise that Dallis Bros. Coffee has for the product of its farm in Brazil, shines through in every perfect cup.
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Ice Ice Baby
We've all had cold coffee, whether intentionally cold-brewed or accidentally left behind. But have you ever tried Japanese cold brew? Our Training and Development Manager, Josip Drazenovic, contributed his tips for this great summer method over at Find. Eat. Drink. Check it out!
Michael Anthony wins James Beard Foundation Award!
Let us be among the legions to throw our hats in the ring to congratulate esteemed NYC chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern for taking the Best Chef NYC award in this week's 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony. We couldn't be more honored to close your beautiful meals with our coffee, Michael!
Trying to Remember Brooklyn Uncorked
As we slowly begin to gather our senses after Wednesday's Brooklyn Uncorked, hosted by great friends and epic food hosts Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, we'd like to just linger on a few memories. Flourless Madagascar Chocolate Cake from the Chocolate Room—perfect with our Colombia Narino (or a Pinot Noir). Curry Tuna from Rosewater in Park Slope, Turkey Mortadella on Thyme Cracker from Gramercy Tavern, amazing bread from our pals at Orwashers, succulent rabbit hearts and livers from Palo Santo/Fort Reno…. and the wines, the wines, the rose wines, all of the beautiful drinks we can't even enumerate (or quite remember). Thanks again to Sam Seier and the entire Edible crew for including us in another delicious and wonderful event!
El Salvador Diaries: Part II
Our coffee director, Byron Holcomb, is frequently called upon to visit coffee-producing countries and report in from the front lines. His current trip to El Salvador, for the annual Cup of Excellence juried competition, brings us his second report.
It is 6:30 pm. The sun set about 30 minutes ago. The birds have left the hotel quiet again; it seems they are solar-powered. When the sun is out they chatter and call full time. Now there are just bats. They fly by the outdoor lights like fighter jets.
Today is really the final exam for all these coffees and the hopes of every farmer is that they pass today. There have been almost 3 full weeks of cuppings leading up to today. Pre-selection where every sample is cupped and evaluated. The national jury then steps in and judges every coffee that passes the pre-selection. The narrowed the field down to 50 coffees. On Monday we (the international jury) calibrated and got accustomed to the new table that we use to put in our scores. Tuesday and Wednesday we cup all the coffees that cupped over 85 according to the national jury. They did a really great job. I only remember one that I wrote "rough" and "no" in the description. All those that passed the three prior cuppings were cupped today. This is D-day.
Today was 33 coffees divided into 4 tables. There were a few that could inspire a belief in god. There were a few that could be my "if I were a stranded on a desert island" coffees. The rest were between quite nice and ok. And several didn't pass today.
Some jurors hand out 90's like business cards. Clearly they like the coffees being offered. One of my favorite parts of the entire CoE process is watching who likes what coffee on the table. After each session we reveal our scores and and see if the coffee will pass through (unofficially). To me a cupper's interpretation of a coffee is fascinating, especially when we come from 8 different countries.
I've given out two 90's so far. There are a lot of great coffees. Lots of balanced sweet, acidic well-bodied coffees. Two coffees to me have stood out as inspiringly beautiful. Fragrant, floral, acidic, balanced, stable as cooled.
I must admit that I had fallen out of love with Pacamara over the last couple years. They can be great, but they are really difficult to roast and the spicy clove and vegetal notes detract from my experience. Maybe I just hadn't had a really great one in a while because now I'm head over heels (again) for Pacamara. They are just intense, loud, wild and when balanced they are just beautiful.
There are two main profiles of Pacamara here: 1) the green bell pepper, spices, huge savory body, wild. 2) The other is crazy floral and sweet really balanced and round almost no hints of the green bell pepper. I prefer the number 2.
What do people think about Pacamara lately?
We had one that was so incredibly sweet and floral we thought it was a natural or something different in the process. All the national jurors said that is simply a beautiful Pacamara, then they would smile with pride.
Tomorrow is much lighter. We cup the one table of the top ten (which should be utter cupping bliss). Then we meet the farmers. Then the award ceremony and the winner is announced.
Yesterday we went to Finca Manzano and had a chance to see Emilio describe how he experiments on and processes his coffee. There was about a 20 minute break in the tour because the rain clouds moved in and dumped buckets and buckets of water on us next to his mechanical dryer. The sideways rain pushed rain onto all of our shoes and pants. The operation is inspiring. Beautiful farm. Inspired farmer.
This place is special. I can't play like I've seen it all before, and I've seen quite a bit in coffee. El Salvador is special.
El Salvador Diaries: Part 1
Our coffee director, Byron Holcomb, is frequently called upon to visit coffee-producing countries and report in from the front lines. His current trip to El Salvador, for the annual Cup of Excellence juried competition, brings us this first report.
After leaving New York where the heat isn't on in my building and the fake spring weather, stepping off the plane in San Salvador was nice. Kind of like a sauna after being in the cold for a very long time. The humidity in the air seemed to displace the oxygen. Everyone in the airport was sweating. Not just the gringos. There were a few of us CoE people on the same flight. I waited out front for them and could see the sweat stains on everyone's back. There were birds, in the airport calling and screaming. There were kids crying. And everyone was either trying to ignore the heat or complain about it.
Then they took us to this place called "Could be anywhere really nice hotel". The cuppings, hotel and awards ceremony are all being held here. Right here. I can see the cupping area from my room. This is like one of those mega nice and big hotels. It is actually really nice. Of course today we left as soon as we were free and went into the old local market in San Salvador to see how people buy their wares locally. There was a sweet woman who told us how this kind of flower is used as a meat replacement. Other people drank smoothies out of plastic bags with straws. I ate plums and this kind of banana plantain hybrid that I call Rulo.
The calibration was great. As usual a couple nice coffees, a couple ok and a rough one to spoil the party. We did the same coffees 3 times. The first table was really hard for me. Our table was sitting in the straight line of sight of the Air Conditioning. Actually only about half of the table was. So I got almost no Fragrance, zero Aroma and the break was like chasing a fart. Cupping them nearly gave me a headache because the two sides of the table were totally different. It was only on my 3rd pass I noticed one side that was much warmer than the other. So some coffees improved, some tanked. I struggled to know why they put all such meh coffees on the calibration round. I couldn't score anything well, nor could I find major flaws. , So we moved the table and on the second and 3rd tables of the same coffees I saw why some people were giving marks above 82. Nothing brilliant but a couple that were very nice.
New this year is the 85 point cutoff for CoE. The coffees must cup over 85 to make it through. This should help decrease the number of coffees in the auction and increase the quality. In prior years it was 84 points. This is the 10th year of the CoE in El Salvador. They have used this program as well as any country (if not better) to promote speciality coffees. The competition is usually held up in a lodge in the mountains. This year in honor to all the jurors they are really stressing that they want the 10th year to be special. Hence the nice hotel.
Did you know in 1972 El Salvador was the 3rd largest exporter of coffee in the world? The jury is a righteous group of fun people. It should be a great time.
Last night we had an opening Welcoming Reception. El Salvador being so small there were a lot of growers there. One young guy really inspired me. He is super excited about coffee and his Pacamara lot made it into the first round. He was giddy excited. Another woman told she has about 8 farms and exports 5,000 containers a year, and she too glowed that her lot made it into the first round. The excitement was palpable. There was another character who showed up and would speak in Spanish to jury members. He understood a lot of english but chose to speak almost none. Only a couple of the jury members speak Spanish. I was an interpreter for most of the night. Some of his stories about values and morals I can tell. Other stories I won't tell you all here. He was hilarious. His coffee is also in the first round.
Later, there are some farm visits planned and I have some of my own farm visits planned while I'm here.
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The Luxury Visionaries 2016
What does the word "souvenir" mean to you? It's probable that it doesn't conjure up a thing of beauty. Perhaps naff T-shirts, nasty keyrings and novelty chocolate spring to mind? But banish thoughts of those biros with the sliding boats (or stripping Chippendales) – which I happen to still find quite amazing. Or the tourist tat in airports made by sweatshop workers creating tons of landfill for the sake of a small and probably unwanted gesture, because there's a new selling exhibition in town that brilliantly redefines "souvenir" for the stylish, discerning shopper, and it's on now.
The wonderful shop and gallery that is The New Craftsmen's new home in Mayfair is hosting a selling exhibition and series of events celebrating the Real Souvenirs of Britain until the 31st August. Only a union jacked hackysack's throw from the terrors of Oxford Street, tourists and locals alike will be able to discover pieces truly rooted to the regions, traditions and talents of the British Isles. And they promise to endure through quality design and expert craftsmanship too.
Among the products will be three-legged milk stools made by farmers in the West Country and photography featuring the prettily embroidered Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestlers. There will of course be jugs and pie dishes aplenty, as well as woad-dyed linen lavender bags. Shoppers here can also find "Britannia" themed tableware illustrated by Laura Carlin, Ruth's Tomlinson's Pearly Queen jewellery collection, and silk scarves from Charlotte Linton. Often useful, all of it represents British creativity at its most endearing, and as a souvenir? Well it's got to be a little bit (OK, a lot) more considerate than a pointless plastic snowglobe.
The New Craftsmen was established two years ago by a trio of founders who between them have reams of experience in brand building, buying and British craftsmanship. Mark Henderson (who is also chairman of Gieves & Hawkes, 1 Savile Row and the London Luxury Quarter), Catherine Locke (former brand developer for Habitat and John Lewis) and Natalie Melton (previously commercial director of Arts & Business) together make a force to be reckoned with, touring the country for its best makers and upkeepers of British creative tradition.
In many ways everything the New Craftsmen sell is a representation of Britain in its truest form, says Locke. "One of the reasons we set this company up was to promote pieces which are enduring in quality and craftsmanship – so to present our pieces as the "real" British souvenirs felt like an interesting distinction from the mass of disposable throw-away souvenirs sold everywhere else in central London – we're providing an alternative route to those looking for a more meaningful and connective emblem."
While the size of the tourist trade has led to the provision of a mass market product, souvenirs should embody something true to that country, says Melton. "The funny thing about souvenirs it that by nature they lose their integrity as soon as they have been created specifically as 'a souvenir' - it's no longer authentic to the purpose and function that it's referencing. Souvenirs are lucky charms – they're objects which are indigenous, typical and enduring, and which reflect the local culture and colour of a particular place. Something to create a concrete connection to memories, places and people in each of our personal histories."
When travelling, often the best souvenir-shopping experiences happen at lively street markets or visits to craft workshops. And it's this, says Henderson, that they are trying to recreate with their initiative. "Part of the experience we are offering is creating a similar sense of allure; part of the craft experience is getting people to connect, visit and meet the craftspeople behind the product – whether glass from a glass blower, or a slipware pot from a West Country potter."
For those who are intrigued by the pieces but can't make it to Mayfair, the souvenirs – like the rest of the New Craftsmen's pieces – are mostly available to buy online. Now we just need to bring on the airport concessions, roll it out globally, and may tourist tat be gone. In the meantime, stylish modern nomads can ensure their meaningful souvenirs arrive in the post instead (with little woad-dyed labels, folky tiny bells and illustrated tissue paper depicting the entire natural dyeing process, of course).


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My $2.72 looks better every day! Izzi - you had a great chance to cash out some of your holdings on this and Greed took hold of you. Stop watching and go get a hobby.
breaking 2 again.. red red red.... frustrating,,,,,,,,,,12 years and counting......
I'm trying to make this ride fun. My formula is to have one drink for each penny lost each day. That's five cold ones for me tonight. Yippee!!!
dougklim,,,,,,,,,,, I cash out at $10.00 ...... or maybe my kids cash it out at 10.....lol


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Music to Your Ears
By Michael Henningsen
Well, well, well ... I can't simply (no pun intended) ignore the fact that after ranting about local bands dropping out of tribute night shows at the last minute, Joe Anderson's band, simple. was one of two bands who actually did drop out of the Launchpad's Metal Tribute III last Saturday night at the last minute. Anderson reported that simple. guitarist Dan Previtt dislocated a shoulder the previous night and was unable to play guitar or lift a variety of relatively small objects, so all is forgiven. As for the bands that did show up, all did a pretty spectacular job pulling off metal tunes that ranged from the comically awful to the actually pretty killer. In my humble opinion, Cue the Wing-ed Serpent, the first band of the evening, which most people missed, were the highlight of the evening, serving up renditions of "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "The Final Countdown" and "Don't Stop Believin'" that were sights and sounds to behold. ... Does anyone other than me find it odd in a sort of the-end-is-near way that Marty Robbins, John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell all died on the same date, Dec. 8? ... and the three shows not to miss this week are the Seventh Annual Antichrist Mass on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Launchpad, featuring Phobia, Catheter, Curse of the Nation, Noisear, Tortus and Pretty Little Flower; the Launchpad Employee F*ck Jam on Monday, Dec. 20, featuring a bunch of stupid shit; and kick-ass Texas-based instrumental band Collect All Five at Stella Blue on Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 9 p.m.
Blue Note
By Michael Henningsen
Holiday in Eastern Europe
Women's vocal ensemble Kitka sing-in the season
Admittedly, I've become a bit jaded when it comes to holiday-themed music. I have, after all, spent every early December listening intently to and reviewing the latest of such releases for the past 11 years, and it doesn't get any easier. But usually, there's at least one stunning new addition to the Christmas music canon each year. In 2004 it's Kitka's Wintersongs (Diaphonica).
Composed of eight uncommonly gifted singers, Kitka capture the tradition, intrigue and spirituality of music of Eastern European origin that commemorates the Christmas season and, in the case of the melodies that predate Christianity, the corresponding winter solstice. Far removed from the mind-numbing holiday music courtesy of Bing Crosby and every other long-dead crooner and contemporary country music artist known to mankind, Kitka's Macedonian-based music aims straight for the soul and hits its mark without exception. Consisting of ancient village chants to eerily complex harmonic arrangements, the group's repertoire sounds timeless with a unique urgency. Accompaniment is generally sparse and rooted in traditional Slavic instrumentation, affording the music with a calm that's synonymous with winters that are long, dark and cold.
Music Magnified
with These Arms Are Snakes and Everlovely Lighteningheart
By Michael Henningsen
Friday, Dec. 17; Launchpad (all ages, 8 p.m.): Frankly, Isis may be the most important metal band on the planet at the moment, and not just because they're able to rock with the best of them. Isis represent the last vestige of hope first proffered nearly a decade ago by pioneering post-hardcore bands Neurosis and, later, Tool. Unfortunately, the promise those bands showed never quite manifested fully in the psyches of fans who flirted with serious, artful metal, only to eventually be sucked in by poseurs like Korn and a half-dozen frat metal bands whose music was fun to drink, fight and plan date-rapes to.
Sonic Reducer
By Michael Henningsen
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
Beginning with the iPod theme song, "Vertigo," U2's latest release brims with that Rattle and Hum self-absorption fans of the band have been forced to come to grips with over the course of the past 14 years, with the notable exceptions of Achtung Baby and 2002's All That You Can't Leave Behind. Here, U2 attempt to strike a balance between their distant past and their perceived future, and they very nearly succeed. The Edge is allowed back in the driver's seat, accelerating each of the album's 11 songs with his trademark effects-soaked, chiming guitar figures.
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Good news, everybody! This year's Van's Warped Tour is coming through Burque—albeit the festival's given up its lauded positioning at the big amphitheater south of town for the slightly more placid, arcadian and sometimes floaty atmosphere at Balloon Fiesta Park…
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A film by Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik
Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism.
In this beautifully directed film, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, Ida is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment; Ida is also personal, intimate, and human. The weight of history is everywhere, but the scale falls within the scope of a young woman learning about the secrets of her own past. This intersection of the personal with momentous historic events makes for what is surely one of the most powerful and affecting films of the year.
It haunted me. I can't wait to see it again.
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But with an audience of at least 200 visitors--many of whom were among the most influential video game journalists in the business--there was a sense of disappointment that EA didn't unveil any huge surprises or games that seemed destined to become classics.
Still, with the latest versions of valuable franchises like "Madden NFL," "NBA Live" and "Battlefield," as well as new titles like "Lord of the Rings: White Council" and "Warhammer Online," many in attendance Thursday at EA's headquarters here were satisfied that the company is living up to its responsibilities as the world's largest publisher of video games.
The annual event falls between May's E3--the video game industry's largest and most-important convention--and the next big events on the game marketing schedule: August's Leipzig Games Convention and September's Tokyo Games Show. Thus it is a chance for EA to give the game press a chance to see titles that are finally ready for public viewing but weren't ready in May.
EA has "30 to 31 games a year that sell more than a million units," Jeff Brown, EA's vice president of corporate communications, told CNET News.com. "You need a showcase."
To some, it might have been noteworthy that the company's most-anticipated game, Will Wright's "Spore," wasn't on display Thursday. But Brown said that the title and some others have already gotten enough exposure in North America this year and that the event here was a better forum for showing off other games.
"There is such a thing as overexposure," he said. "These games are looking a lot like they're going to look like when they come out in October. This isn't the shell game everybody plays at E3."
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Separately on Thursday, EA also announced its plans for six games for Nintendo's next-generation console, the Wii, which is expected to hit stores this holiday season. The games include "Madden 07," "Need for Speed," "Harry Potter" and "The Godfather."
Meanwhile, to the sounds of the horns and drums of the University of Southern California marching band, Brown came onstage in EA's theater to begin the showcase. Using the band as a tie-in, he excitedly touted the company's release, scheduled for next week, of "NCAA Football 2007."
The game, Brown said, is for people who "just love football and can't wait for 'Madden' in another month."
Video: Electronic Arts going mobile
During EA's annual showcase in Redwood City, Calif., CNET's Neha Tiwari speaks with EA Mobile's Travis Boatman about how the company is tackling the mobile video game market.
During the presentation, which lasted about 90 minutes, Brown introduced a series of EA's developer partners, giving each a chance to demonstrate their games. He also pointed out a Sony Computer Entertainment of America executive in the audience and said that EA is "100 percent behind the launch" of the PlayStation 3.
But the first to join Brown onstage was Marc Jacobs, the head of Mythic Entertainment, publisher of "Dark Ages of Camelot" and the forthcoming "Warhammer Online."
Electronic Arts announced last month that it was buying Mythic.
Brown said that EA's management had decided it needed to become a more active player in the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game market.
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Doing away with giant manuals and books of practice tests (although some are still available to buy here), the SAT website lets kids keep all their SAT-related business in one place, and that's great. The free stuff is good for kids who can't afford to shell out for summer classes or tutoring, although it would be nice to have a few more practice tests. The website itself is well-designed and unintimidating, which should put kids easily overwhelmed by this sometimes scary process at ease.
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The transmission-dependent convolution subtraction (TDCS) technique is a promising technique in quantitative SPECT to subtract the scatter components from emission images. Usually a 20% photo-peak energy window is used in SPECT acquisitions. So far no investigation has been done to investigate the effect of energy windows to subtract the scatter components from emission images with the TDCS technique. To evaluate the energy dependency of the TDCS technique, SPECT acquisitions were performed for the photo-peak energy windows of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% and 35% by acquiring the data of nonuniform and uniform phantom with 99mTc radionuclide. The parameters of the scatter fraction to be used in the TDCS technique were estimated with the point sources placed in the water phantom. The estimated parameters were used in the TDCS technique to subtract scatter components from the data of corresponding energy windows of non-uniform and uniform phantom. Poisson noises were added to each projection's data of uniform phantom before scatter corrections. All data were reconstructed with the OSEM algorithm. The energy window dependence of the TDCS technique was verified by comparing the coefficients of variance (COV) of the data of the uniform phantom of each energy window. The non-uniform phantom results showed that the estimated parameters effectively estimated the scatter component from the projection images for each energy window. The COV for 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% and 35% energy window were 2.10%, 1.76%, 1.44%, 1.39%, 1.34%, 1.37% and 1.61%, respectively. The COV in the 25% window was lower than the COV of other energy windows. In the TDCS technique the photo-peak energy window 25% or 30% may be more effective to obtain emission images for higher statistics of counts, which may make scan time shorter.
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July 26, 2016 This weekend's events at Chapman State Park include a Saturday with a bat theme. Friday: ¯ 6 to 6:30 p.m. more »»
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July 23, 2016 Sheffield Alumni Weekend 2016 Alumni weekend 2016 was deemed a very successful event. more »»
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GW generally does have a lot going on all the time so you can always find something to do. The facilities are okay, but they are often too crowded. They need to be more accommodating to the large student body and GW just doesn't have the space for that.
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GW students have always griped that the University spends too much money on facilities and goes overboard when renovating or building new structure, but no one complains when using brand new equipment in these multimillion-dollar structures. In the past decade, GW built homes for the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Elliott School of International Affairs, which cost about $100 million altogether. The campus also built a fantastic gym, the Lerner Health and Wellness Center, dubbed the "Hell Well" by students. It has cardiovascular machines, a weight room, racquetball courts, and a swimming pool. Despite an adequate number of machines, the lines can be quite lengthy during peak times.
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It is hoped a cease-fire deal signed by both the Ugandan Government and the Lords Army Resistance will end two decades on conflict.
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Uganda and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have signed a cessation of hostilities deal at talks in southern Sudan in a major breakthrough in efforts to end one of Africa's longest wars, according to mediators.
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Uganda's government has agreed to a conditional truce with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), but there is still doubt about whether the rebels will accept it.
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Uganda's military says it has killed a senior northern rebel wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
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Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have declared a unilateral cease-fire in an apparent bid to boost faltering peace talks aimed at ending two decades of brutal war in northern Uganda.
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Food emergencies in Africa are occurring three times more often now than in the mid-1980s, but the global response to famine continues to be "too little, too late", international aid agency Oxfam says.
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The Ugandan Government and the rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have begun talks aimed at ending 20 years of war.
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Uganda wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to grant an amnesty to the leaders of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in order to cut a peace deal.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pledged to grant Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony total amnesty, disregarding International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants, if peace talks due to open in southern Sudan next week succeed.
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In his first media interview in 20 years, the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has denied being responsible for war crimes.
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Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has argued in a unique interview that he is not a terrorist and again proposed peace talks with the Ugandan Government.
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An Australian doctor charged with ordering the murder of his estranged lawyer wife last year in Uganda says he is innocent of the charges, as his trial gets under way in the capital, Kampala.
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An Australian physician charged with ordering the murder of his estranged lawyer wife last year in Uganda has been released on bail after losing two previous applications.
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The International Criminal Court says the Ugandan Government must arrest the leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), so he can be tried for war crimes.
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Foreign ministers from Africa's turbulent Great Lakes region have called on the United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) to impose sanctions on leaders of rebel armed groups destabilising the area.
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An Australian cardiologist charged with ordering the murder of his estranged wife last year in Uganda has again been denied bail in his second attempt to win provisional release.
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A report by more than 50 charity groups says the rate of violent deaths in northern Uganda is three times higher than in Iraq.
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At least 21 people have been killed and more than 20 others have been injured after a church roof collapsed during torrential rains in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
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A Ugandan High Court on Tuesday acquitted opposition leader Kizza Besigye on rape charges, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
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Uganda's opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, has rejected the results of the country's landmark multi-party elections.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has won re-election with a large majority over his former doctor and nearest rival Kizza Besigye, official poll figures show.
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Ugandans have voted peacefully in the country's first multi-party election in 26 years.
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From the shores of Lake Victoria to a remote war zone in the north, Ugandans have voted in their first multi-party election for 25 years.
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Two people have been killed in Uganda when a security agent fired into a crowd of opposition supporters.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, uganda
The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution strongly condemning militias and armed groups in Africa's Great Lakes region.
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Be careful with this one. I installed on another site with success. Then used it on a different client's site and the site crashed. So I deactived, still had a dead site. I used FTP access to remove the plugin -still crashed. Followed the readme.txt instructions under "If all else fails" and it still was down, including my dashboard access. I ended up copying site files from a backup - thank you backupwordpress! - and it's fine.
After 2 hours of problems, I wanted to take an extra 2 minutes to warn people. I am not an expert at WP but not a newbie.
The ability to pre-load the cache was extremely useful. But any editing activity now seems to wipe the entire cache. And even without editing, the cache seems to disappear rapidly.
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Preload is broken. No support in the forum anymore.
Better get another cache plugin. Not worth the hassle!
I uninstalled this plugin and it took down my website. For some reason remove the opening PHP tag within my wp-config.php file.
Very tough to install and uninstall. Doesn't take off HTML files. It affects Google's crawlers and took off my site from the search engine. Even after the plugin has been uninstalled with great difficulty, can't take off the html tags that it had generated.
I've had nothing but issues with this plugin ever since I've installed it. Bogs down my site and breaks the front end updating. Even after I uninstalled the plugin it was still causing my site not to update on the front end. My web host techs had to manually uninstall lines of code which still pointed to Super Cache plugin. Do yourself a favor and avoid the headaches this plugin causes.
I have a site with 17000 posts, and created preload super cache about 10hours. I waited for 10 hours, until the plugin cache for the post by post, but when preload is finish, files in super cache was removed for unknown reasons
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I do not get this plugin to work. After pressing TEST it keep telling that the timestamps of 1.html and 2.hrml do not match. Indeed, the is 3 seconds difference while files size is identical.
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This plugin did not work with the default installation. Not after reinstall wordpress, not after clean cache, remove and reinstalling this plugin.
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