A wholesome fruit, a versatile vegetable, an artist's Still Life subject, the Avocado is in a class of its own. Whether diced in a bowl of salad, blended in a nourishing juice or scooped straight out of its shell, for me the avocado's sensual texture, colouring crayon colours and milky taste, evoke sensory delights at once exotic and familiar, sophisticated and homely. Not only that, the avocado is equally comfortable in the company of delicate vinaigrette dressing served in a pretentious nouvelle cuisine dish or covered in chunks of dark palm sugar in a child's dessert bowl. Packed with vitamins and natural goodness the Avocado truly balances the mind, body and spirit. A truly creative food. - desi anwar
Here's a grim story that most of us have probably suspected all along. It's sad to know that in many parts of the world, forced marriages of young girls still continue. And the tragic thing is, not many of them are brave like this little girl from Yemen.
Why Societies That Oppress Women are More Violent
Nicholas D. Kristof is a New York Times columnist.
It’s hard to imagine that there have been many younger divorcees — or braver ones — than the pint-size third grader named Nujood Ali.
An interesting discussion that is showing the different generations are trying to define feminism and motherhood... The following article is from The Guardian newspaper.
F...
The author Katherine Paterson is to be appointed the national ambassador for young people's literature on Tuesday.
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: January 05, 2010
BARRE, Vt. - Ka...
Dua hari menjelang Natal tahun yang lalu, Penulis memiliki pengalaman yang mengesankan. Saat itu ramalan cuaca, baik di televisi dan informasi cuaca online menyebutkan b...
Who Is A Jew?
It's about more than blood.
By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 10, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Dec 21, 2009
Were I to submit my cells to DNA tests, r...
The following is an interesting take on the joys and pains of Facebook by a Wall Street Journal columnist on how Facebook can ruin friendship with your real friends (as o...
By Po Bronson,
Newsweek
November 05, 2009
Here’s a Twilight Zone-type premise for you. What if surgeons never got to work on humans, they were instead just endlessly in tra...
I guess we've taken the 'unconscious' for granted. We always speak of it as if we've known that it's existed all along. But actually the idea of the 'unconscious' the w...
When I was a child I climbed trees, played barefooted, put rocks and shells in my pockets and romped in the sun with nothing but shorts on all day until I was black as so...
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
~ Hermann Hesse
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