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The Curious Cook - The Tomato, Accused but Probably O.K. - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/dining/29curi.html

Here at the end of July, my tomato plants are bearing just a few green fruits. But they have lots of healthy foliage. The leaves may not taste like ripe tomatoes, but they do have tomato flavor. Which made me think, why not cook more with tomato leaves?

Because they’re poisonous! That’s what most people have said when I mention the idea. But it turns out that there’s little good evidence for that common belief. So I’ve branched out from Paul Bertolli’s leaf-flavored pasta sauce, an old favorite. I think tomato leaves are worth adding to our roster of kitchen herbs

#tomate #légumes #alimentation #feuille

Cheney avait ordonné à la CIA de cacher, pendant 8 ans, un programme de contre-terrorisme (mais c’est pas grave, dit l’article, parce que le programme secret n’a jamais réellement existé – il était juste… secret). Quelqu’un se souvient s’il y a eu des suites ? Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12intel.html

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.

Book Review, By Stephen Pollard - ’Surrender - Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom,’ by Bruce Bawer - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/books/review/Pollard-t.html

There is no more important issue facing the West than Islamism, Islamofascism or — to use yet another label — radical Islam. And there is no more necessary precondition to countering that threat than understanding it: where it springs from, how it is expressed and the ways in which it is spreading. But before we do any of that, we have to agree that the threat exists.

For the United States, the danger so far has taken the form of terror, as 9/11 so clearly demonstrated. In Europe, terror is real too, but a more insidious problem has now taken hold: many liberals and others on the European left are making common cause with radical Islam and then brazenly and bizarrely denying both the existence of that alliance and in fact the existence of any Islamist threat whatever.

Écrit il y a deux ans presque jour pour jour.

Oui, Stephen : je suppose que tu es désormais heureux qu’un jeune norvégien blond ait enfin pris les choses en main.