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...The scenic road south-west to Lake Héviz weaves through fields of wild lavender, vineyards, and farmland filled with corn, wheat and sunflowers....
...About a century ago, a couple were pulling corn from the lower terrace of the gardens — a shelf of rock cantilevered like a diving board over the void below. One plant was mature and tough....
...In the foreground, a naked old man, Job, enlarged by his proximity to us, sits alone atop a mound of hay or corn. Jeering townsmen recede beside him....
...Bledar joins us for pudding, a sweet fermented corn maize served in a clay pipe. The meal closes with wine and rakia, and we relax into a state of blissful shendevere....
...Laposse agrees: “I’m not pretending to make even a dent in the world market of corn or agave waste,” he says....
...These might include grains and corn from the Andes, coffee from the Amazon, rare varieties of potato, cacao and root vegetable....
...We’re drinking mescal cocktails and eating “ribs” made of sliced corn on the cob. DeRossi says he has no interest in that toxicity....
...To the east is Creole Caribbean and the magical Corn Islands. West are the chalky sands and surf of the Pacific....
...All of its soaps are handmade, vegan and use natural ingredients, such as green sea clay and ylang-ylang....
...The nearby Rotterdam bar is a classic serving countless traditional dishes in clay pots, from cod with pil-pil sauce to croquetas, meatballs, fried anchovies and homemade desserts....
...The last meal that truly impressed me was at Clay, a very small and beautiful farm-to-table restaurant in the middle of Harlem....
...Konstantopoulous is one of three farmers left in what was once a bustling agricultural centre, growing grapes, tomatoes and corn....
...In Broken Bow, Nebraska, Clay Govier’s relatively small arable farm of about 3,000 acres has seen revenues fall about 50 per cent since corn prices began to crash in 2012....
...Western Georgia is famous for its corn flatbreads called mchadi — they are wrapped in walnut leaves and cooked in ketsi (clay pots), leaving their intricate veins imprinted on the breads....
...William Clay Ford Jr, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, may be what passes for royalty in the “Motor City” of Detroit — but he’s not quite sure he’s memorable enough to have made an impression on...
...Combine the above ingredients to form a dough; the texture should be like soft clay but not sticky. Divide the dough into 18 x 30g pieces and roll into balls....
...Her paved courtyard contained the usual clutter of the Chinese countryside: piles of coal and corn, some rusty farm equipment and a long washing line....
...She has converted the shop’s gas oven back to wood-fired, to bake robust stews in clay pots as well as breads and pastries. Tempting smells waft from a batch of simit – sesame-coated bread rings....
...corn....
...The tot suddenly felt compelled to mash the butter like clay. “I started to step on it,” recalls Kelly, a mischievous glint in his watery blue eyes....
...But on closer inspection it becomes apparent that Xu’s landscape is actually created by attaching found objects such as hemp fibre, dry plants, corn husks, crumpled paper and debris to the back of the glass...
...Traditionally, this meant corn, coca and clay pots, but with Peru experiencing its fastest growth rates since 2008, today’s Ekekos are more likely to be strung with tiny iPhones, microwaves, credit cards...
...Here, a waiter tops up our little clay teapot with water from a kettle sitting on a charcoal stove....
...The soil along the way is sandy and full of clay, good for nothing except the abundant bananas and papayas. We spot the breathtaking, blue-green Martins Bay ....
...If that sounds somewhat obscure, Silvertown reminds us that endosperm has become vital to human existence: it makes up most of the kernel of food grains such as rice, wheat and corn....
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