Plaid in pledge on home grown; Parliamentary correspondent Mark…
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- Plaid in pledge on home grown; Parliamentary correspondent Mark…
- Bossy poised for return
- Whites for spring
- Dragon’s teeth-All That Matters-Sunday Specials-Opinion-The Times…
- Shakespeare goes desi
Plaid in pledge on home grown; Parliamentary correspondent Mark…
highbeam.com – Apr 23, 2005
find Daily Post (Liverpool, England) articles. Byline: Mark Hookham LAID Cymru yesterday launched their environment and food policies with the message ‘bu.
Bossy poised for return
manchesteronline.co.uk – Apr 23, 2005
“We are an open market place now. Somewhere there is a middle ground. You need to bring your home-grown players through and give them the opportunity to flourish. Financially, it makes common sense. “On the back of that, you have to look all round the world. “You can’t just be blinkered to what you have in your academy. At the moment we do better than most with bringing players through.
Whites for spring
Times Online – Apr 23, 2005
But, as usual, faced with inclement weather, British drinkers will have to rely on the contents of their glass and plate to make the seasonal leap. Fortunately, the first of Europe’s fresh-as-a-daisy ’04 whites, harvested last autumn, are filtering on to shelves; the southern hemisphere’s ’04s, picked last spring, have been with us for some time. Either option is just the ticket to serve with the first tender, sweet, home-grown spring vegetables. As always when matching wine to food, think about the intensity of flavours present: a gentle leafy white is ideal with delicate, sparingly dressed spring salads, while fuller-flavoured greens such as buttered purple sprouting broccoli, or pauper’s asparagus, can take a bolder white. Reserve the boldest new whites for fresh English asparagus with a rich hollandaise sauce. Asparagus is best partnered with a similarly asparagus-scented white, and the top Kiwi sauvignons from the leading Marlborough district have this quality in spades. Tesco was one of the first to offer an own-label version of this classic regional style, and its Finest Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc has been consistently good, despite vintage swings.
Dragon’s teeth-All That Matters-Sunday Specials-Opinion-The Times…
Times of India – Apr 23, 2005
I pointed out that far from being a toothless nation thanks toits dental toiletry, China had shown in ‘62 that it had teeth aplenty. But whatif through some unfathomable Fu Manchu-like prescience, the mandarins in Beijinghad predicted that an Indian tourist would be a potential purchaser oftoothpaste in such-and-such place, at such-and-such time, and had worked out afiendishly complicated logistical scenario to have available for me a suitablysabotaged item of toiletry which would render me toothless in a symbolicde-fanging of the Indianstate? The next morning, Itried the Oxygen and found it to be excellent. I wanted to take a couple oftubes home, but was afraid Customs would seize them and brand me a traitor toboot. But I did take back a revelation: Made-in-China was better – and cheaper -than Made-in-India. Today when the Chinese dragon is stretching its vast pinionsto shower a bounty of goods – from toys to clocks, footwear to fine crystal -across the planet, I think of that tube of toothpaste. Was my consumer choice inKathmandu the first flutter of the wings of a butterfly that would set off aglobal storm? Had I had a glimmer of future events, I might well have said theheck with toothpaste, of Chinese or any other provenance, and stuck to a goodold datun of home-grown neem…
But I did take back a revelation: Made-in-China was better – and cheaper -than Made-in-India. Today when the Chinese dragon is stretching its vast pinionsto shower a bounty of goods – from toys to clocks, footwear to fine crystal -across the planet, I think of that tube of toothpaste. Was my consumer choice inKathmandu the first flutter of the wings of a butterfly that would set off aglobal storm? Had I had a glimmer of future events, I might well have said theheck with toothpaste, of Chinese or any other provenance, and stuck to a goodold datun of home-grown neem.
Shakespeare goes desi
Times of India – Apr 23, 2005
This one speaksEnglish with a smattering of local lingosâand gratifyingly, isincreasingly hearing on-stage dialogue thatâs a piquant fusion of Englishand Indian tongues too. English theatre has undergone a makeover. Ithasnât junked European playwrights altogether, but adaptations andhome-grown plays now comfortably rub shoulders with Shakespeare and Pinter. Butthough the quantum of plays being written locally has soared, laments about theabysmal quality of most scripts never seem to wane. Indeed, city directors Rahulda Cunha and Vikram Kapadia took up the pen because they were discontent withthe scripts they were receiving. Hope lingers somewhere on thehorizon: Da Cunhaâs Rage theatre group had brought down writers anddirectors from Londonâs Royal Court Theatre to conduct playwritingworkshops in the city in 2002. RCT chose scripts eligible for production, Ragehelped playwrights locate directors, and the productions saw fruition in the2004 Writers’Bloc Festival.