It snowed last Thursday in downtown Santiago, Chile for the first time in eight years. And Chile is experiencing its coldest winter in four decades.
Hugo Chavez is taking full advantage of Sean Penn's visit. It will be interesting to hear what Penn has to say after he has "taken it all in" in Venezuela. I think Chavez is a nut-job, but anyone who loathes Bush the way he does can't be all bad.
At least 48 people are dead and scores are missing in floods in northwest China. Not that you'd read much about it in U.S. papers.
The town of Zaragosa in Nueva Ecija, Phillipines, is encouraging rat-killing by rewarding students who bring in the most rat tails collected by their supporters....family, friends, etc.
Bulgarian beaches may be beautiful, but beware of dangerous rip-tides.
Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin warns that there is a an access-to-justice "crisis" putting the country's legal system at risk. Apparently, the Canadians must have adopted U.S.-style justice, because McLachlin says the legal system in Canada is too expensive for the majority of Canadians.
If you're interested in Indian food from the Second Home of Indian Cooking (England), here's an interesting recipe for coconut mackerel currey that I'd like you to try (and invite me over to try it with you).
Speaking of English food, seems the Brits have taken a liking to one of my favorite U.S. Southern dishes, fried green tomaatoes.
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The past couple of weeks of news and events make me think that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Oh well.
If you like fried green tomatoes, too bad you don't live nextdoor. I'd send over a big sack of them. We have plenty of red, yellow and green ones. This week, we had tomato and feta pie one night, and I made batches of salsa sauce and spaghetti sauce. Not sure how I'll use up the next basket full!
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