Hints and tips:
...At Da Terra in London’s Bethnal Green caviar is now added to a cachaça baba with pistachio ice cream, and helps make a “perfectly balanced dish”, says chef and owner Rafael Cagali....
...Beside Al’Azzalia and other Marrakshi masters — Mohamed Bariz, Mohamed Rguibi and Aaiachi Benjakan — there’s Baba-C, a Griot storyteller from Washington....
...I really can’t resist street markets and spice shops such as the Souk el Attarine in the Medina in Marrakech, and the grand vaulted Misir Carsisi in Istanbul....
...But that degree of transparency is no better than the record of his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, whose administration “made Ali Baba’s cave of thieves look like Disney World”, as a leading businessman...
...fondasala.com Els Casals Afores Sagàs, 08517 Barcelona, +34 938 251 200; elscasals.cat nicholas.lander@ft.com...
...In “Baba antropofágica” (Anthropophagic slobber), participants slowly disgorge saliva-laden filaments that they lay across a prone colleague, covering him in a moist, wispy web....
...At the El Baba sweets store, a major stop-off on the highway, employees took to the streets recently to demand an end to the sit-in, after business dropped by 75 per cent....
...The multiple rhythms went wild, darbuka and rango skittering while TuTu chanted “Baba Rikaley” over and over again and danced like a man possessed....
...The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies is building its own new structure, designed by the traditionalist Egyptian architect Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil....
...We used to call this greasy spoon El Sordido, but it is now such a nice restaurant that the joke dies on our lips. We both still go for the full fry-up....
...Again, there are far more of these than the staples known to western supermarkets, the hummuses and baba ganoushes....
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