Sources Thailand and Vietnam are having their own rice-related problems.
Asia facing food crisis?
Posted on March 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Threat of turmoil all over Asia has been the favorite doomsday prediction for weeks. In Thailand, farmers are hoarding rice. In Indonesia, social unrest is feared although the government spends “35 percent of its entire budget on fuel and electricity subsidies to keep those commodities affordable for the poor.” Wow. Can we say as much ... (more)
Talakitok (trevally) steaks with homemade pesto
Posted on March 31, 2008 · 17 Comments
Instead of cooking the fish separately and tossing them with the pesto afterwards, I cooked the fish steaks in the pesto over low heat. The result? Fish meat that absorbed the saltiness and garlicky flavor of the pesto. And, despite the amount of oil in the sauce, I didn’t have to worry about cholesterol because I used extra virgin olive oil to make the pesto. We were pouring the sauce over the rice and mixing it in. Darn, it was good. 
Guarding against summer brownouts
Posted on March 31, 2008 · 11 Comments
Driving home, all I could think about was how the iPhone would work with my SMART sim card, if it would reject it, if there really was a defect and if I would have to return it. When I couldn’t connect to the web and couldn’t get the e-mail to work — I got the message that I was not subscribed to EDGE — I was so sure we bought a lemon and was about to cry. I searched the web for answers, found nothing and got progressively depressed.
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