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...P??s recent album—self-titled, unsurprisingly—frequently staggers under the weight of tautology, though occasionally recovering long enough to create a few songs that can stand alone. Its opening track “Williamsburg,” for example, is full of lyrics like, “Tell me all the bands that sound like other bands / that we kinda sound like,” or “It’s a Brazilian psychedelic, pop-post-avant-garde garage punk ambient core outfit...
...inaugural address delivered last week by Alan Garca P??rez, Peru's new President, was more than an impassioned speech to his people. It was a blunt message to the foreign banks and governments that have loaned Peru money. Determined and defiant, Garca vowed to renegotiate Peru's $13.7 billion debt during the next twelve months, and said that while doing so he would devote no more than 10% of his country's export earnings to making interest payments...
...earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion. The Chinese variety is insipid when compared with the one found in France, Italy and Spain. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as Umbrian or P??rigord black diamonds. The deception has roiled the luxury-food industry, particularly as European harvests have dwindled. Last season, when a heat wave cut the P??rigord bounty from the usual 50 tons to 9, the import of Chinese truffles skyrocketed to an estimated 30 tons, from 20 the year before...
...pride about the 40 to 50 tons of truffles that his team of 20,000 gatherers harvests for him each year. "They taste just as good as the French ones, with maybe a little less aroma," he contends--although he concedes that he's never actually tasted a P??rigord truffle...
...European countryside and beat the fungi out of their more fragile cousins. Already the ancient truffle terroir is being hammered by pesticides and urbanization. Two centuries ago, French black truffles were so abundant that they were cheaper than tomatoes; since then, the average annual truffle harvest in the P??rigord region and beyond has declined, from some 1,800 tons to a mere 50 tons. An influx of Chinese truffle spores could finish off an already threatened gastronomic tradition...