Year: 2012
- Recipe
Cool & crunchy chicken salad recipe
Chef Marcus Samuelson Inspired by Vietnamese summer salads, this dish gets its bold flavor from fresh limes, pungent fish sauce and spicy jalapeno in the vinaigrette. I added carrots for some color and sweetness and sprinkle the salad with roasted peanuts for texture and bite.If you prefer a lighter meal, you can omit the chicken or substitute grilled…
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Why the size of your waist matters
If you think stepping on a scale and weighing yourself gives you the whole picture about the risks of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, think again! Measuring your waistline may be more important than weighing your whole self. Faben Getachew For the most part people are unaware of visceral fat – or of what is commonly known as belly…
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The value of friendship
Ashenafi Zedebub If we just take a glance at our dictionary – old or advanced – the meaning of friendship remains the same. “A friendship is a feeling which exists between friends”. In this sense, a neighbor can be a friend. Friendship can also exist between colleagues, school-mates, club members, extra, extra. Here in our society, we have heard a…
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Sore relations – The trouble of identifying the real threat against Islam in Ethiopia
Currently the real challenge faced by Muslims in Ethiopia is not a U.S.-made amateur video clip but a sore relationship with the government Selahadin Eshetu Many Muslims throughout the world are enraged about a release by few filmmakers in the U.S. of an amateur video clip that they believe insults the Prophet of Islam. Violence has erupted in Egypt,…
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A pleasing coincidence – Ethiopia’s new PM and UN’s first ever high-level meeting on rule of law
Alem C. For the first time in its history, on Sep. 24th 2012, the UN has held a high-level meeting “devoted to the rule of law at the national and international levels,” as one of the side events during the sixty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly that took place in the last week of…
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Are voters as ignorant as our politicians think?
Tomas Mega from Las Vegas, Nevada Forty two years ago, Vice President Spiro Agnew used the phrase “Nattering nabobs of negativism” to describe his view of the American media. In the final days of this election year, the notorious nabobs are still at it, but they are not the media. They are the candidates, and their…
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Addis and Krakow – A tale of two cities with similar venues (almost) and a titanic difference (for sure)
A difference made in preserving and protecting the past Rose Mestika Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is rich in different ways. Each city in the country hosts a mixture of history that is known and unknown by its own people and has nine unique sites registered by the UNESCO. Poland, in Eastern Europe, has 10 sites…
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And the winner is…
A Leza Radio Show Listeners’ Choice award night that could become Ethiopia’s answer to Hollywood big bonanzas On September 22nd, Berhanu Degafe, host of the famous Leza Radio Show on Sheger FM 102.1 has put on the 2nd Leza Show Listeners’ Choice Award ceremony for musicians, actors and actresses that was held at Embilita Cinema here in Addis Ababa. …
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A Mexican Gastronomic Week comes to live at Radisson Blu Addis Ababa
It was a plain idea brought in a few months ago by Alfredo Miranda, the Mexican Ambassador in Addis Ababa, who asked the management of the Radisson Blu hotel on whether the hotel could entertain the Mexican National Day party on September 14th. However, “because we were already booked for an event on that day, we had to decline,”…
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