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Natural Viagra – When the Bamboo Flowers!

28. September 2008

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It can tweak the fertility of rats, believe many in Mizoram. Now nutrient-rich bamboo seeds are going straight from the jungle to the Mizo menu and even the bedroom! In Mizoram, bamboo seeds that appear after a riotous flowering of the tall grass every 50 years are considered a harbinger of famine or mautam in the [...]

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Discovering Slow Food in India

25. September 2008

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Discovering Slow Food in India

No time-saving machines; no labor-saving gizmos; no measuring cups and spoons; no fancy ovens; no cuisinarts; no blenders; no recipe books—apart from carefully handwritten slender, little notebook of recipes, Oriental and Occidental, appreciatively learned from visiting neighbors or friends; no cans; no frozen foods; no microwavables. No this and no that! How, then, could so much [...]

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