![]() ![]() Sophie spent her idyllic time outdoors, chasing geese and rabbits, catching frogs, picking cherries, climbing trees and enjoying Sunday picnics with local villagers. ![]() ![]() Sophie’s favorite memories were the summers she spent with her Grandmère Odette at her crumbling old chateau along the Tarn River. As Jacques Pépin said, “cooking is the art of adjustment.” What better place for Sophie to do that than a beautiful sun-drenched town in Southwestern France? That’s just what Samantha Vérant has done with this book - it’s a bit sweet, a bit salty, leading off with a sense of loss and bitterness that needs to be brought back into balance. The chef strives to strike the right balance. Samantha Vérant has the recipe for the perfect book: a wealthy French grandmother, her country chateau and an ambitious young chef on the run from recent disgrace at a top-tier restaurant in New York.Īs one of my own favorite chefs says, you need a combination of tastes and textures to satisfy the palette: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, smooth. ![]()
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During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cultural wounds inflicted by these multiple wars between Christians and Muslims continue to cast long shadows over today's international politics. This entrenched mindset perpetuates itself in every new generation even though the Crusades began nearly a thousand years ago and those involved in the military campaigns have long ago been reduced to skeletons. The listing of atrocities perpetrated by Our Enemies that justified the actions by Our Heroes. However, the mere mention of that period of history can evoke emotional responses by people today: One of the most notorious examples of this kind of faith-based zealotry was during the Crusades. It does not matter the faith of the zealot, because it is the fear and the fervor that overpowers the mind and allows atrocities to occur in the name of God. Terror was its own kind of madness and no reason, no faith, could shine a light into that darkest region of the human soul.” – Kamran Pasha, Shadow of the Swords, p. They were like men possessed, driven by their own fears of death to kill…It was not about right or wrong, or the well-considered arguments of religious scholars. ![]() “(T)he rabbi knew that the marauders had ceased to think in terms of God or religion. ![]() ![]() The well-traveled daughter of a doting professor, the newly orphaned but fiercely independent Beatrice (think Elizabeth Bennet with a bike) plainly bristles at being patronized by everyone from the titled aunt who holds the purse-strings to her inheritance, to the parochial town leaders who expect her to be pleased about earning less than the unqualified male candidate ahead of her. It’s 1914 in Helen Simonson’s new novel, “The Summer Before the War,” and while the world is holding its breath against the German invasion of Belgium, residents of the English seaside town of Rye are riveted by the arrival of the new Latin teacher, Beatrice Nash - a well-educated woman not nearly as old or as plain as she had appeared on paper. ![]() Book review for the March 21 edition of the Star Tribune ![]() ![]() ![]() Infants live what might be called the beginner’s creed: If you don’t learn to fail, you’ll fail to learn. ![]() And best of all, we can have fun doing it-something we should never underestimate as an agent of learning and discovery. We develop what’s often called the “beginner’s mind.” By taking on new challenges, we return to a child-like way of thinking, one that’s free from preconceptions, unburdened by expectation, less categorical in its outlook. Unburdened by our past experiences and rote expertise, we can start to see the world-and ourselves-in new ways. But there’s great power in being a beginner. Harness the power of the beginner’s mind.Īll too often we stubbornly avoid new things because we’re afraid we’ll be bad at them. Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Try Kindle Unlimited for free: million books for you In fact, they became the precursors to the first volume of the German Dictionary and - due to the complexity of the language - it was not completed until the 1960s. Apart from their renowned literary collections, the Brothers Grimm published didactic (pedagogical) texts and works on linguistic research. Then, from 1840 on, they remained in Berlin as members of the Royal Academy of Sciences. ![]() They moved to the University of Göttingen in 1829. ![]() On the other hand, Jacob chose the meticulous study of the philology of the German language. Wilhelm Grimm was mainly dedicated to research work related to medieval culture. There they created ties of close friendship with the poet Clemens Brentano and the historian Friedrich Karl von Savigny, friendships that would be key to their compilation works.īrentano was also a folklorist, probably his influence was key in the criteria of the brothers grimm regarding the superiority of popular narrative over cultured literature. ![]() They completed a law degree at the University of Marburg. ![]() ![]() Halliday launched a journal, FrogLog, to share the data, and through a programme of small grants sent young biologists all over the world to find amphibians and record how they were doing. Halliday’s paintings of a red-eyed tree frog (left) and green toad Many of these declines were described as “enigmatic”, because frogs, toads, newts and salamanders were dying in supposedly protected habitats. As participants at the congress compared notes, they realised that the same was happening all over the world. While studying the courtship and mating of British newts in the wild, he had noticed over the years that the numbers in his study ponds had been falling. ![]() ![]() In 1989 Halliday was one of the prime movers in organising the First World Congress of Herpetology (herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles) at the University of Kent, Canterbury. The current chief scientist of the Amphibian Survival Alliance, Phil Bishop, called him “the leading champion and ambassador for all things amphibian”. Tim Halliday, who has died aged 73, was one of the leading figures in a worldwide initiative to raise the alarm, and to understand the reasons for the decline. ![]() Almost exactly 30 years ago, the first warning sounded that amphibian species were already in potentially catastrophic freefall. The recent shocking UN report on the threatened extinction of one million species has focused global attention on the crucial role of biodiversity in the health of the planet. ![]() ![]() Throughout her long, peripatetic career, this quaint, homey cottage has always served as a tonic and an escape, a far cry from the haute couture world she’s immersed in professionally. In addition to her ongoing relationship with Vogue, she has two new book projects and a talk show in the works and recently collaborated on a handbag collection for Louis Vuitton. ![]() Outside in the blowsy garden stand a trim little guest cabin and a screened-in “eating house” built with reclaimed wood.Īt an age when most people are thinking of slowing down, Coddington is as busy as ever. Over the years, they have pulled in their friends the architects Jeffrey Cayle and Brad Floyd, as well as Floyd’s contracting partner Lafayette Compton, to introduce numerous small customizations and poetic touches: figurative Paysanne tiles from Le Fanion in the otherwise clean-lined kitchen a mammoth custom-built “French dresser” with bookshelves held up by a raw tree trunk columns on the front porch made from railroad ties. She and Malige originally purchased the house she describes as “plain and not pretty” as a jumping-off point that would allow them to search for their dream home, but now, decades later, it seems as if settling has turned to settling in just fine. ![]() A George Sherlock sofa slipcovered in white linen. ![]() ![]() But if it presented no especial difference to the eye of the public, yet those who were familiar with ships noticed certain peculiarities which could not escape a sailor's keen glance. One would have very easily confounded it with the other brigs in the harbor. The Forward was a vessel of one hundred and seventy tons, rigged as a brig, and carrying a screw and a steam-engine of one hundred and twenty horse-power. The many-colored omnibuses which pass outside of the docks were discharging, every minute, their load of sight-seers the whole city seemed to care for nothing except watching the departure of the Forward. ![]() The workingmen of the neighboring wharves had abandoned their tasks, tradesmen had left their gloomy shops, and the merchants their empty warehouses. Nevertheless, from early morning on the 6th of April, a large crowd collected on the quays of the New Prince's Docks all the sailors of the place seemed to have assembled there. ![]() Who would take notice of it in so great a throng of ships of all sizes and of every country, that dry-docks covering two leagues scarcely contain them? The sailing of a brig is not a matter of great importance for the chief commercial city of England. This announcement appeared in the Liverpool Herald of April 5, 1860. Z., captain, Richard Shandon, mate, will clear from New Prince's Docks destination unknown." ![]() "To-morrow, at the turn of the tide, the brig Forward, K. ![]() ![]() It’s about how abuse repeats itself over generations – it doesn’t just go away as we might like to think. It’s about what the white colonists stole from the natives, and about the many abuses that impact families to this day. Importantly, this is a book about race and history in Australia. Kerry is reminded how much she loves the land when it’s threatened by the local mayor’s plan to have the area developed and turned into a prison. Of course getting away from home won’t be so easy. She arrives in the small town of Durrongo on a stolen Harley, and she’s already trying to figure out how to get out as soon as possible. ![]() She left home years ago for Brisbane now she’s back because her grandfather is dying. ![]() Too Much Lip tells the story of Kerry Salter, a young woman who comes from the Bundjalung community. I was struck by the similarities in the history of Australia and the United States, though I felt Australia was much more open about its troubling treatment of Aboriginal populations. ![]() I love reading about Australia, ever since I traveled there in 2013. ![]() |