Girls are said to be the fairer of the sexes, but from the age of thirteen, probably earlier now, to sometimes seventeen, sadly sometimes, much more, their freakin' idiots. Beiber Fever is hundreds of girls in London running through the parking lot chasing his car and running through the mall to his cd signing. But it's always been this way, from the Beatles, to Nsync, to the Jonas Brother's. Girls are suckers for fantasies and frilly shit.

Sudoku has become a widely loved puzzle. It was invented by an American guy named Howard Garns in 1979 and called Numbers in Place. It was published in Dell Magazine. Later, in 1986 a Japanese puzzle company called Nikoli published the game and called it Sudoku meaning "single number." It became a hit in 2005. The game is played with an incomplete field of numbers. There are nine rows nine squares long split into nine regions, three squares long. Each row has nine numbers and each 3X3 region has a number one through nine. There was a similar game invented in the late 19th century in France called Magic Numbers, where you had to work the 9X9 grid mathematically to get the solution. Sudoku's success today is rivaling crossword puzzles. The Los Angeles Times now has a Sudoku puzzle next to it's crossword puzzle and people all across the country are addicted to the craze of the game. There are many different variations on the game. Some have 5X5 grids called Logi-5, others have 12X12 grids called Dodeka-Sudoku. Why is Sudoku so popular. It might be that it is a relaxing way to challenge your brain. It's fun and rewarding and it is something that passes time.

Rice is the staple food of life. Almost every culture manages to use rice and many regard it as essential. In the Philippines in Tagalog the term "ulam" means side dish because it's assumed that rice is the main dish. Mostly there's rice and a meat. What makes rice such a popular dish? Could it be that it grows so freely? It helps support sustainable landcare and can be grown almost anywhere. There's brown rice, white rice, orange rice, sticky rice, long grain, short grain, wild rice, bazmati, and safron. Those are just some of the common kinds. There are also other varieties from different parts of Africa. It's also a large part of the diet in Latin American countries. It's got a wide variety of uses too. Maybe this is why its such an important part of many countries diets. It can be used for a lot of things and its cheap. Rice is only 24 cents a pound, and that's considered expensive. Seven months prior to that price it was half that. So rice but what other than a dish can it be used for. Well it can be turned into flour, oil, noodle, and it can be used in soda, beer, and sake as a beverage. There's also use in pastry dishes. Mochi balls are made out of a pounded rice mush. Mix rice with brown sugar and you've got sweet rice. Then in America there's rice porridge, and rice pudding. Rice pudding is a big treat in Mexico and Horchata is a drink made from rice. So it's cheap and has a wide use, but what else. It's nutritious. Some rices are better than others though and these tend to be Brown rice. Brown rice has the bran intact whereas white rice has removed the bran. Even with the bran removed there's protein in the grain. So it's cheap, healthy and has a wide usage. Could there be something else. I'm not so sure. Rice has no flavor, yet it's consumption is huge. People in Asian countries consume a hundred and seventy six pounds of rice a year. That's remarkable.

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Berbere: the Spice of Life

Ethiopian food is really good. If you've never been I recommend you go up to L.A.'s Little Ethiopia to Messob Ethiopian Restaurant on 1041 S Fairfax Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90019-4402 in the Fairfax district. You can try several different things, including: Wat, Tibs, Kitfo, and Fitfit. Wat is any one of a number of different stews. It's made with different things. There are Wat made up of chickpeas, cabbage and carrots, lentils, chard, greens, fish, beef, chicken, and lamb. In it is sauteed onions, vegetable oil, and berbere which makes a spicy keiy. Berbere is a combination of chili and other spices and it's essential to many of the dishes. Another key ingredient is niter kibbeh, a clarified butter infused with ginger, garlic, and several spices. The Berbere is instantly recognizable in the dishes. Tibs is sauteed meat or vegetables and special Tibs is the meat on a vegetable salad. Kitfo is raw or rare ground beef marinated in a spicy chili called mitmita and niter kebbeh. What's interesting about eating Wat is that you do it with your hands. There's a sour pancake called injera that you grab the Wat with your fingers and eat it. I really enjoy this basic, primitive type of eating. It's very peaceful and simple. It's even fun. Your in close contact with what your eating and you can feel it in your hands. Now there's a type of drink that I unfortunately have not had the chance to have. It's honey wine, similar to mead, cal Tej. It's drinken typically in a Tej bet, which is like a bar, where Tej is served. The food is served on a special table top called a Mesob. It's woven out of straw and is covered until the food comes. At that time a bowl of warm water is put on the table for people to wash their hands and then the Mesob is opened and the food is placed on top.

So feel free to try this interesting type of cuisine. I recommend it highly. The berbere makes the food just the smallest bit spicy, but it shouldn't put anyone off.

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