Asian Passion: Parley on saving animals embarrasses Japanese
KYOTO, Japan -- The Japanese liked the idea of playing host to this year's meeting of people concerned about protecting endangered species. Trouble is, they also adore things made of ivory. They share the peculiar Asian passion for particular parts of bears. And the rest of the world's anxiety about the waning bluefin tuna population is overwhelmed by the Japanese craving for sushi -- which is what that fish becomes when it's attached to a blob of vinegared...
Asian Passion: SAUCE
Nice result for catering icon Highly respected catering company Just Nous has been sold to the Nicest Results Group and will continue to operate with business as usual.The new owners are chefs Vivian Buck and Luke Benbow, the latter a 31yearold cook who did his training in the Navy before going on to become Prime Minister John Howard's personal chef.``Mate, the reason we bought it is because we believe it's the best small catering company in the...
Asian Passion: Viva el beisbol
World Baseball Classic was a healthy spectacle of sport and nationalism
There is something new under the Sun. The World Baseball Classic, which ended last night with xxxx's victory over xxxxx, was an eye-popping innovation. The WBC allowed Americans to see the Latin and Asian passion for an American game. The classic also demonstrated that teams from Latin America and Asia are highly competitive rivals to American major leaguers. In fact, the U.S. team was eliminated from the tournament by Mexico, even though the seeding was designed to get the American...
Asian Passion: Indian Express:
The Pigeon is set for his final flight
Glenn McGrath has been through a lot for Australia. He has shouldered the attack, mouthed off a few words in frustration and scowled at the unfairness of a top-edge falling a fingertip too far from and outstretched hand or an umpire shaking his head as a delivery slides down leg. Now the great warhorse fronts up to his third successive World Cup final and what it likely to be his last joust for Australia in the game痴 big showpiece, this time it is on the African continent. It was...
Asian Passion: Asian influence on rise
Community leaders aim to make political mark in California
They tamed tough Tenderloin
SAN FRANCISCO(Tribune Staff Writer) -- It's a cross-cultural love story straight from the heart of the Tenderloin District, this city's downtown circus of sleaze.But it didn't take place in any of the countless neighborhood sex parlors, where you can pay a dollar to talk to a naked woman. Love has blossomed in the Battambang Market, a tiny grocery on Eddy Street where Michael Tarbox and his Cambodian-born wife have shown that a little Asian fortitude,...
