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Global Food Blog Report #34

Melissa De Leòn Douglass · 20:03 · Americas

#1: From Spain: Cocinova cooks up a delicious "Pollo en Salsa de Chocolate" (Chicken in Chocolate Sauce) EN/ES

Esta deliciosa receta la probé en casa de Mª Ángeles, y aunque no soy fanática del chocolate, créanme los que son como yo, que el chocolate en esta salsa sabe realmente delicioso; no se trata de un plato dulce, es un auténtico segundo plato, pero con un sabor muy diferente y exótico.
El chocolate estimula la producción de serotonina en nuestro cerebro y de ahí esa sensación sedante y de tranquilidad que produce cuando se come; así que este plato estoy segura que os gustará.
Además es una receta ideal para preparar una cena romántica. Continuar leyendo…

I tried this delicious recipe at María Ángeles' house, and though I am not a fanatic of the chocolate, trust me those who are like me, the chocolate in this sauce tastes really delicious: it is not a sweet dish but a second authentic dish with a very different and exotic flavour.
The chocolate stimulates the production of serotonine in our brain and produces a sedative and quiet sensation when eating it up, so I am sure that you are going to like it. Besides it, it is an ideal recipe to prepare a romantic dinner.Get the recipe now!

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Blogging Tunisia: Good News and Bad News

Sami Ben Gharbia · 16:33 · Middle East & North Africa

The good news is that Tunisia won't bomb Aljazeera TV channel. It just has put an end to its diplomatic representation in Qatar and shut down its embassy in Doha. That's what Arab regimes can do, has Houssein noticed [Fr], when they loose a battle in the information war against the pan-Arab and Qatar-based satellite channel Aljazeera. The cause of this decision was the broadcasting on October 14 of an interview with Moncef Marzouki, an opponent of the Tunisian regime, president of the Congress for the Republic (CPR, unrecognized political party) in which he called for a “civil resistance movement” against the Tunisian government. (Watch the video [Ar] )

The statement issued Wednesday 25 Oct. by the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, following the withdrawal of the Tunisian diplomats, accused Aljazeera of waging a “hostile campaign aimed at hurting Tunisia“:

« By taking deliberately malicious positions vis-a-vis Tunisia, Al-Jazeera has broken all limits and transgressed the moral rules on which journalism is based. »

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Serbia: Referendum Fraud and Other Issues

Ljubisa Bojic · 16:17 · Eastern & Central Europe

All ballot stations across Serbia closed in the evening of Sunday, October 29, as people voted for or against the constitution draft proposed by all political parties represented in the parliament. Radical party officials were saying: adoption of the new constitution is important because it states that Kosovo and Metohia are indivisible part of the country. The democrats argued: the new set of basic laws cuts any relation with the dark Slobodan Milosevic’s past.

For the first time in Serbian history, the poll lasted two days. All forms of advertising were used to stimulate citizens to vote. Those favoring the boycott of the referendum were neglected and underrepresented in the mainstream media. The pressure was pumping up. The first day of voting was marked by the relatively low turnout of 17.8 percent. Political leaders struggled to get 50 percent by calling all the citizens again and again over the TV. As the hours passed, they even announced that Albanian leader Agim Ceku was preparing fireworks and celebration which would take place if the referendum fails. At the end, 53.3 percent of legitimate voters showed up to vote.

However, there are doubts about these turnout figures - because of the numerous irregularities reported.

One activist of the Liberal Democratic Party filmed a scam:

She introduced herself as Crnjanski Vera, but she had no ID to confirm it at the election spot. She was allowed to vote despite that, which is against the basic democratic principles. Then the real Crnjanski Vera appeared, just minutes later, showing her ID. Members of the election commission were confused.

The dialogue you hear in this video is translated from Serbian here:

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Arabisc: Sexual Harrassment Saga Continues in Egypt

Amira Al Hussaini · 15:01 · Middle East & North Africa

Citizen journalism (blogging) took a new turn in Egypt this week, with online journals going where traditional media dared not go.

It was only after bloggers brought a two-day orgy of sexual harrassment in downtown Cairo to the forefront that newspapers and television channels started dealing with the issue.

Discussions on the issue are still raging at the Egyptian blogoshere, with some blaming the government for not taking action and allowing the incidents to go ahead and others accusing the bloggers of blowing the incident out of proportion in a bid to embarrass the authorities.

Wael Abbas, who was among the first bloggers to write about the incident, lists a number of sites containing links to newspaper articles, in Arabic and English, which have touched on the topic.

He also complains that an Interior Ministry official tried to tarnish his reputation on a television interview for blowing the whistle.

Fellow blogger Malek, also known as Malcolm X and who was actually the first to write about the scandal, also posts links to newspapers articles as well as pictures from Wael Abbas' blog to show that what he saw and blogged about was the truth.

Blogger Asad follows the same line with a post containing links to other blogs and news and television sites which covered the incident.

كادت الجريمة تمر مرور الكرام كما مرّت وتمر غيرها من الجرائم في بلادنا المنكوبة كل يوم , إلا أن مجموعة من المدوّنين المصريين كانوا هناك ونشروا شهاداتهم التي تلقفتها باقي المدونات , لتتحول الواقعة إلى قضية رأي عام , تناولتها الصحف والتغطيات التلفزيونية .

“This crime would have gone unnoticed just like other crimes in our country. However, a number of bloggers were there and published what they saw online. It was picked by other blogs, forcing the incident to be a national issue, which newspapers and television covered later on,” explains Asad.

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