No mistakin’, it’s Jamaican
The News Review:
- No mistakin’, it’s Jamaican
- Why political correctness is killing off our dying swans
- Jihad threat in a familiar Aussie twang
No mistakin’, it’s Jamaican
St. Petersburg Times – Aug 11, 2005
Few other cuisines mix such a range of spices and tastes – sweet, hot and savory – as Jamaican cooking. They are added by as little as a teaspoon to bring sweetness and pleasure to humble foods, from canned fish, big carrots and cabbage to bony cuts of meat. Some of the tricks are borrowed from the French, the Spanish, the African and the East Indian, but the key ingredients are home-grown. For years some of the liveliest and most dependable tastes of Jamaica have been from the good people at the Jerk Hut, and I’m glad the insufferable heat of recent weeks sent me there. Jamaican cooking arrived on a later boat than reggae and slowly found a home in the states. Petersburg, that home is Saffron’s in the Jungle Prada area, started by Edyth James and her husband, the late Cheffie.
Why political correctness is killing off our dying swans
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 11, 2005
The lists point up the paucity of home-grown talent in Britain’s top ballet companies. Russians, other East Europeans, Spaniards and Cubans have taken the majority of the plum principal dancer roles in British companies in the last decade. Only one of the six principals at Northern Ballet Theatre, for example, is British. When Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope, who won the best male dancer prize at last year’s National Dance Awards, retire from full-time dancing next year, the Royal Ballet will be able to boast just one British principal, Edward Watson. The Royal Ballet, though it has its own prestigious Royal Ballet School, has increasingly looked abroad and has hired stars such as the Cuban Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo from Spain, the Romanian Alina Cojocaru and the Dane Johann Kobborg at the expense of British dancers.
Jihad threat in a familiar Aussie twang
The Age – Aug 11, 2005
Australian troops due in Afghanistan within weeks may beconfronted by home-grown jihadists after a masked man with anAustralian accent appeared on Arab television to threaten terroristattacks against the West. Speech experts said the man was either born in or spent hisformative years in Australia and was probably aged under 30. Theybelieve he may be a second-generation Australian from anon-English-speaking background. The man attacked Western involvement in Iraq. “It is time for usto be equals,” he said.