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...place draws a crowd of an emerging new generation of middle-class Russians. "The people who come are those who have achieved something in life," boasts Yuri Lazarov, the staff director. Sometimes the bar seems to try a little too hard. The menu includes "very wild boar" and "extraction of the huntsman" (roast pork and potatoes with a cherry cognac sauce), all unlikely to feature in a pub in Scotland. And unlike in the mother country itself, there's no restriction on smoking. Still, with a little imagination and a lot of whisky, you could almost be at yer auntie...
...from Scotland." The place draws a crowd of an emerging new generation of middle-class Russians. "The people who come are those who have achieved something in life," boasts Yuri Lazarov, the staff director. Sometimes the bar seems to try a little too hard. The menu includes "very wild boar" and "extraction of the huntsman" (roast pork and potatoes with a cherry cognac sauce), all unlikely to feature in a pub in Scotland. And unlike in the mother country itself, there's no restriction on smoking. Still, with a little imagination and a lot of whisky, you could almost...
...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...market in stolen art, says "it's difficult to know where they might end up." Despite their size and fame, he adds, "There's definitely a market for them." But in what form? The other pieces, among them a war memorial, a giant dung beetle and a life-size boar, are less valuable and have nothing in common except that they are big, unguarded - and made of bronze. Vernon Rapley, head of Scotland Yard's Arts and Antiques Unit, fears the worst. "They've either been rapidly exported or melted down" - a thought Rapley finds "quite repugnant." But the market...
CALL OF THE WILD Game meats are big, especially wild boar--mild and surprisingly tasty in sausages, rillettes and saucisson by D'Artagnan...