Saturday, October 20, 2012

Kareena Kapoor exchanged vows

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An option explored by Prakash Jha was to let SOTY be released
and then unleash an intense wave of publicity and marketing
in the last week leading up to his release. However that
option had to be discarded since Chakravyuha opens on
Wednesday , two days ahead of the customary Friday opening ,
which gives Jha's film a mere 5-day window post-SOTY release.
Says the source close to Jha, "Chakravyuha finds itself in a
peculiar spot. It has all its stars from Arjun Rampal to Om
puri most willing to promote the film, but not enough space
to do do, the spotlight being on Karan Johar and his three
newcomers."
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor exchanged vows on Tuesday by
exchanging rings and garlands. The bride wore her ma-in-law
Sharmila Tagore's gharara, the final fitting of which was
done by Manish Malhotra. Later, she changed into a lehenga,
which she wore till early morning to the after-party at a
Mumbai five-star hotel.
The songs played included those from the couple's films like
Mauja Hi Mauja, Chammak Challo, Halkat Jawani and Tumhi Ho
Bandhu, as Tusshar Kapoor, Malaika Arora Khan, Ranbir Kapoor,
Amrita Arora Ladak with husband Shakeel danced. Saif's ex-
wife Amrita Singh and Karisma Kapoor's husband Sanjay Kapur
were conspicuous by their absence.
Karisma's best friend and Anil Kapoor's brother, Sanjay's
birthday was brought in by popping a champagne bottle. The
best performance of the evening came from Karan Johar and
Neetu Kapoor, who danced to one of Sharmila's songs. Shweta
Bachchan Nanda, Bebo's aunt Ritu Kapoor Nanda's daughter-in-
law, was also present.

Have Superchefs Gotten Too Clubby

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(MORE: Have Superchefs Gotten Too Clubby?)
The alternative— actually cooking like mom did — isn’t
very attractive, even if people like myself do like it more.
But although Carbone (who, like most of the chefs here, I
know well) didn’t really articulate it, I know from eating
his and Torrisi’s cooking that they are trying to make
regular food better by doing things to it that the diner
never sees but only appreciates. I wrote about their turkey
sandwich a couple of years ago. It looks and tastes like
turkey, only better. (The secret has to do with injection,
brining, and a low-temp CVAP oven.) The same is true of Ana
Sortun’s falafel (frosted with dark tahini), Michael White’
s pork ragu (featuring hot pork fat blended back into the
finished tomato sauce), or John Besh’s gumbo (embellished
with tapioca pearls), in Cambridge, New York, and New
Orleans. All these dishes are familiar, just improved by
ingenuity and elaboration. In the long run, I suspect that
culinary futurism and Mama’s Sunday sauce will both fall by
the wayside, and chefs will grind forward, tweaking the
familiar to be just a little bit better. It’s not dramatic,
but at the very least, it’s honest work. And that would make
any mother proud.
  Ozersky, author of The Hamburger: A History, is a James
Beard Award–winning food writer. His most recent book,
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, was published in May
2012. The views expressed are solely his own.

Last Thursday, the online world mourned the death of David
Rose, a deaf and quadriplegic blogger with cerebral palsy who
entertained the masses with his humorous posts. The 24-year-
old Anaheim, Calif. man had a huge following on his blog,
Facebook and Twitter.  He was in the hospital fighting
pneumonia when he was “whisked away by angels” on Oct. 11,
according to a tweet posted by his sister Nichole to his
account. Nichole Rose included a link to a farewell letter
from her brother, theCHIVE reported.
“Always do what is right. Always! But forgive yourself if
you forget sometimes,” an excerpt from the letter reads. The
touching note even moved Kim Kardashian to tweet the blogger
’s words of wisdom.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

but the question still remains

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Just last month, The New York Times carried an article about
an area of the Pine Barrens slated for development that would
endanger short-eared owls living there, as well as the tiger
salamander. I immediately felt the $1.5 billion resort
development had no business jeopardizing short-eared owls,
wonderful birds I am instantly drawn to. But I was
embarrassed to discover I didn't really care about the tiger
salamander in the same way. I dutifully read up on the
amphibian and brought my sentiments into line with my
political convictions.
Of course species are used as a rallying cry to save a whole
habitat, but the question still remains: How do we know what
to save, at what cost, and why? I often think of the two
missionaries in A Passage to India explaining to the native
population that God's house has many mansions and all are
welcome in it, black and white. But the question of animals
quickly arises--what about monkeys? "Old Mr. Grayford said
No, but young Mr. Sorley, who was advanced, said Yes; he saw
no reason why monkeys should not have their collateral share
of bliss, and he had sympathetic discussions about them with
his Hindu friends. " But the Hindus press the point to a
degree that challenges even the advanced Mr. Sorley:
And the jackals? Jackals were indeed less to Mr. Sorley's
mind but he admitted that the mercy of God, being infinite,
may well embrace all mammals. And the wasps? He became uneasy
during the descent to wasps, and was apt to change the
conversation. And oranges, cactuses, crystals and mud? and
the bacteria inside Mr. Sorley? No, no, this is going too
far. We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall
be left with nothing.
We are still in some sense having this exchange, though it is
more urgent since it is not our Father's mansion but our own
that we are debating admission into. And the answer will tell
us something not of the quality of God's mercy, but of the
quality of human civilization.