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Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets - and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses organically grown fruits and botanicals - such as raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon, jaboticaba and lemon myrtle - to make an award-winning range of liqueurs, schnapps and eaux de vies sold in hand-painted bottles. Garrulous owner Michael Ward welcomes visitors like an old friend and explains the distillery's traditional methods (first developed by Benedictine monks). Despite the arrival...
Like many an eagle-eyed Czech, composer Václav Hálek was out in the woods on a recent afternoon, foraging for wild mushrooms. But their flavor was far from his mind - Hálek, 66, was after their sound. He found his quarry 10 minutes into his walk: a beautiful Fragile Russula with a purplish top. After a moment of prayer, he reached for a sheet of notepaper and wrote out a short piece for solo violin. "They are all compositions that in some way portray a particular mushroom," he says. As Hálek tells...
...There was only one man in that room with the clout and reputation to recommend a measure this extreme. Zhong was delegated to call Governor Huang Huahua. The argument he could give was simple: the wild animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong made that call on Sunday. He can be very persuasive: the order was given later that day to the Guangdong Health Department and the Guangdong Forestry Department, among other agencies, to launch a campaign...
...incubation period for SARS is 14 days. The last civets were taken from the wild animal markets on Jan. 6. By Jan. 20, if no new human cases emerge, we will have a very good indication if Yi, and the Guangdong government, made the right call...
Like many an eagle-eyed Czech, composer Václav Hálek was out in the woods on a recent afternoon, foraging for wild mushrooms. But their flavor was far from his mind-Hálek, 66, was after their sound. He found his quarry 10 minutes into his walk: a beautiful Fragile Russula with a purplish top. After a moment of prayer, he reached for a sheet of notepaper and wrote out a short piece for solo violin. "They are all compositions that in some way portray a particular mushroom," he says. As Hálek tells...