(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Adamawa have confirmed the arrest of 14 suspected notorious kidnappers terrorizing people of the state. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, the Police Spokesperson in the state, disclosed this in a statement in Yola. Nguroje said the breakthrough followed credible information from reliable sources. “The Operatives from Adamawa Police Command attached to […]
Drinking around the world: The rise and rise of Thai wine
Monsoon Valley chief winemaker Suppached Sasoman, a leading star in Thai wine
Producing over a million bottles a year, Thailand is a little known but increasingly adept wine producing region. Vines have been planted there since the 1960s despite the humid tropical climate and the Thai portfolio is now considered by many as the ultimate in “New Latitude wines”.
Thailand’s dominant grape variety known as the Malaga Blanc – probably the Spanish grape Teneron, known in France as Panse de Provence – was introduced in the 1600s as a gift from a French diplomat on behalf of Louis XIV to King Naraj.
Friday, 27 November 2020
Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
The aim of the following piece is simply to share some interesting accounts of the tin-trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly one written in Arabic and another in Persian. Taken together, these two accounts suggest that tin from southwestern England (
i.e. Cornwall and Devon) was exported via southern France to both Egypt and ultimately Iran in this period, with it being used by potters in the latter area to make tin-opacified ceramic glazes.
A Caribbean dinner kit for two from the ever-gorgeous Caribe in Brixton.
Could Valentine s Day be the one celebration of the year that s actually going to be improved by lockdown?
Whether you re coupled or single, Feb-One-Four is traditionally awful ludicrously cheesy, weirdly performative, and, (the one we re really aggrieved by) doesn t even have a Maltesers animal associated with it, i.e. all the worst parts of hyper-consumerism, none of the important ones.
On the other hand: Valentine s pandemic-style looks kind of. better than any other V-Day of yore? No pressure or in fact ability to go out for it, no risk of being violined at over dinner by a roving restaurant musician, and far more (and better) food delivery options across the city than existed pre-coronavirus.