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...“In 2019,” he writes, “we mined, dug and blasted more materials from the earth’s surface than the sum total of everything we extracted from the dawn of humanity all the way through to 1950.”...
...Try the amazake Piña Colada — a non-alcoholic protein drink made from fermented rice....
..., and a Wagyu with tomato ssamjang sauce and gamtae noodles — all before a delicious rice-based dessert....
...The fragile flowers of the crocus sativus are handpicked at dawn in October and November, before its three crimson stigmas are carefully plucked and dried....
...I pick a few prawns out of the rice but we’re done with the food....
...He came alive when searching for butterflies, watching water buffalo splashing around in rice fields and trapping rodents and stick insects to keep as pets....
...Then it’s up before dawn again for morning chanting in the temple hall, followed by sitting meditation outside in the dark, walking meditation before breakfast, and another sunmudo class....
...Among the garden fertilisers was mustard cake, made from the stems of mustard crops, and a soil conditioner made of rice husks....
...Endo, by the way, makes sushi rice the way God surely intended: flavourful, falls apart just so, yet has an almost creamy texture....
...We drove away from Mocoa in the dark of night, heading south, cresting a hill as rosy light fingered the dawn. Before us lay the 400,000 sq km of Colombia’s Amazon rainforest....
...At night, the camp was forced to observe the national wartime blackout, by which all lights had to be shut off from sunset to dawn....
...During China’s earliest dynasties, staple grains (mainly millet, but also rice, soyabeans and wheat) were steamed or boiled, and eaten whole, as they still are in rice-eating regions....
...“I like it chopped up with some brown rice and a bit of soy.”...
...I saw how saltwater intrusion is shattering rice-farming communities in south-western Bangladesh, with villagers pouring in vast numbers into the overcrowded slums of Dhaka....
...He cooked the same meals day after day, rice and dal and chicken curry, which he ate with his fingers, standing at the kitchen counter....
...Plan A takes us back to the dawn of time. First, the fire. Hardwoods are superior to soft in these circumstances because they burn slowly and their smoke is more refined than pine....
...Impoverished, tired and hungry, the pair were travelling to pick up rice from relatives. They had been on the road overnight....
...I arrived home at dawn the next day after endless trundling and queueing....
...Flora sieves maize balls, sweet pepper, yucca and wild corn onto a plate with rice and hot pickle, bringing the broth to table in separate bowls....
...At dawn, the beach is covered in prints – birds with toes as thin as Japanese brushstrokes. Among the patterns are tiny mounds of burrowed soil, driftwood and leaf fall....
...We order chicken and rice and fizzy drinks. Soon Chris, a Dubai financier, arrives. In the afternoon, the mountains subside into sand and a warm tailwind builds....
...In summer, many of the villages will have a fiesta, which means live music and drinking till dawn....
...It’s supremely versatile and a good change from rice or quinoa. Bring the milk and 750ml water to just below a simmer in a heavy-base saucepan or casserole dish....
...Just before dawn, my phone buzzes with an alert: police have been called to the home of Boris Johnson’s girlfriend, Carrie Symonds. News bursts into the spiritual retreat....
...This morning, up on her feet at dawn, despite her aching limbs and weary eyes, she had baked a trayful of her favourite dessert....
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