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Italy’s electoral lists saga – a guide

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In this photo: President Giorgio Napolitano – source: Presidency of the Italian Republic Are you confused by recent events regarding the Regional elections in Italy? Here’s our guide: What is an electoral list?

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Ming’s Pasta

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Plain can be tasty: pasta tossed with Bovril and butter, a dish not for the faint of weight. I realise that I don’t have any food recipes to blog since it’s still CNY and I’m still eating out, at restaurants, friends’ and my MIL’s. So before all my readers run away, here’s the world’s simplest way to serve pasta according to my son Ming who cooked it up, literally. All you need is pasta, preferably the ones with a hollow center like macaroni and bucatini, Bovril and the best butter. That would be Lurpak or President butter here but if you can get Kerrygold, which we used to get, that’s good too. A cheaper but still good butter is Anchor block butter. This is a pasta dish for hungry teenagers whose moms are lazy/too busy/ran out of money/all the previous excuses/reasons. Ming’s Pasta 1. Boil your pasta in salted water as usual (and never add oil, it’s unecessary and makes the pasta too slippery for the sauce to cling) and to the texture you like. Drain well. 2. When still hot, add lots of butter and Bovril. That’s it. A minestrone or

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Smartypants Quiz – U.S. PRESIDENTS Edition: Enter Now!

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Happy President’s Day! Are you ready to exercise your presidential knowledge? Here we go, baby.

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Smartypants Quiz – U.S. PRESIDENTS Edition: Study Up!

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Happy President’s Day! In honor of Washington, Lincoln, and every other male (so far) human that’s held the highest office in our land, I’m holding a special U.S. Presidents Edition Smartypants Quiz tonight. Brush up on your Presidential knowledge! Smartypants Quiz, U.S. Presidents Edition – Monday, February 15, 2010 – 6:00 pm Pacific Time Be there or be despondent…and encourage your kids to join in the fun. It’ll keep ‘em out of trouble. Continued here: Smartypants Quiz – U.S. PRESIDENTS Edition: Study Up!

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Kitchen Monkey Getting Married (and Restaurant Daniel, and Other Matters)

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Yes, it’s true, and there’s much to tell about that, but first a bit about the long absence. Shamefully, it has been around a year and a half since my last post. I’ve been busy with work, recording music, and yes, cooking. Somehow the blog fell by the wayside, but I’m hoping to change that. Yes, I know I’ve said that before. No, I’m not assuming that you care. There have been numerous interesting food adventures in the past year or so–sojourns to out-of-the-way butcher shops and farms; fantastic farmers markets; excellent D.C. area restaurants–but two adventures easily stand out. The first is the SASOU Chef cooking competition/supper club that Kitchen Monkey and seven friends formed over a year ago. SASOU deserves its own post, however, and will have to wait. The second was a truly phenomenal dinner at a truly phenomenal restaurant: Daniel. That dinner was part of what I would say was a perfect day, the day I proposed to my soon-to-be-wife. Without going into too much detail, I proposed in a secluded part of Central Park in Manhattan, she was surprised, and she said yes. She knew we had reservations at Daniel. She didn’t know it was…

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SEVENTIES Movie Quiz – Answers and Winners

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The Super Round-Up, December 19

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[Image via VegNews ] Did somebody say VEGAN CHALLAH ?� Oh yes, VegNews just did!�It’s going to be a good Hanukkah this year, Jews! (Is eggless challah possible?) Psst…I think I also heard them say ” vegan gingerbread cookies .” Who’s up for a vegan gingerbread house bake-off? Hmmm? Farm Sanctuary reminded us to sign their Petition for the Pigs , a letter that asks President Obama to demand that the USDA extend legal protection to downed pigs . Yeah, um, did we all just assume that pigs were covered like certain other large mammals? Terry Hope Romero’s vegan Latin cookbook Viva Vegan is available for pre-order on Amazon. See how dangerous—and hot—that knife makes her look? Metromix declared Dirt Candy ’s Amanda Cohen Chef of the Year. Amanda Cohen sounds like Samantha Cohen, which means THAT COULD TOTALLY BE ME ONE DAY. USA Today reported on school lunch standards: somehow less stringent than fast-food standards! Even KFC won’t buy the chickens kiddies are eating as chicken plywood nuggets. [ Comments (0) | Add Your Comment ]

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Hello/Goodbye Red Snapper Shooter

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It’s funny how cathartic the simplest things can be. Cooking Red To Remember . At first “blush” it seems like a beautifully simple way to honor and remember the many millions of people affected by AIDS/HIV. So when Angela at SpinachTiger (shyly) asked me if I would participate. It was easy to answer, “Yes, of course”. It’s a noble gesture and a great way to raise awareness about a disease that is still horrifying in global proportions. But when I sat down to write the introduction to my first entry, Oysters with Red Mignonette , I was surprised by the emotions that came boiling to the surface. You see what I remember about AIDS, especially during those early years was the public condemnation too many of the first victims had to face as an added burden to the bewildering and overwhelming process of dying. This condemnation came in many forms: Medical personnel who did not understand what was going on; friends and family shocked into silence; a new type of fear within the gay community. A fear so deep it threatened to send many of us back into the closet after…

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Photo of the Day: Obama Pardons a Turkey

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[ Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters at Christian Science Monitor ] Today, President Obama and his family pardoned a turkey named Courage to live the rest of its life in Disneyland, reports The Washington Post . Presidential turkey pardonings were first made official 20 years ago with President George H.W. Bush, although turkeys and U.S. presidents have shared the spotlight before then. The Christian Science Monitor has more about the history of the turkey-pardoning tradition.

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Vanity Fair declares war on cupcakes and cuteness

Needless to say, I am not at all impressed with James Windolf’s war on cuteness in the new Vanity Fair in his article “Addicted to Cute” where everything from baby videos to animal videos to the Obamas to cupcakes to anime come under attack. (Though we do appreciate the link love in the online version!) I will be writing a formal letter to them, but here’s the key cupcake passage (the print version has a photo of the Trophy Cupcakes Obama cupcake too): C uteness has also insinuated its way into our lives by way of our taste buds and stomachs. The nationwide hunger for what may be the cutest food item in culinary history, the cupcake , seems to have kicked in around 2005. A studied childishness is a big part of the cute movement, and the cupcake’s surge in popularity is a reversion to the gustatory pleasures of that time in our lives when sweet plus soft plus damp equaled yummy. Gourmet-cupcake boutiques have recently opened in Dallas, Detroit, Birmingham, Cambridge, Indianapolis, Georgetown, Brooklyn, and Tacoma. And Martha Stewart held a “cutest cupcake” photo contest. The miniature cakes are also becoming a staple of that old rite of passage to adulthood, the wedding. Writing for examiner.com, a D.C. event planner…

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