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A beginner's attempt to welcome Year of the Dragon

Let’s party on, people.

Just because the holiday glitz is gone doesn’t mean no celebrating. Chinese New Year, which starts Monday, offers hosts a reason to stretch a little – or a lot.

I unknowingly chose the latter after perusing the recently published “Complete Chinese Cookbook,” by BBC television chef Ken Hom.

Chinese New Year is one of the longest, most important holidays in Far Eastern cultures. Houses are scrubbed beforehand to banish bad luck and make way for good. Visits with friends and family include lots of good food.

Hom advises neophyte Chinese cooks to start with just three dishes, rather than the traditional spread of many. Flipping through the pages, I briefly considered Whole Stuffed Chicken Skin, which involves excavating a raw bird by hand and then “reforming” it by stuffing the limp skin with rice.

Three dishes made the cut: Marbled Tea Eggs; Chili Pork Spareribs and Paper-wrapped Chicken, colorful deep-fried wax paper packets of marinated chicken, hot pepper and ginger.

Source: The Virginian-Pilot

JavaScript Cookbook - O'Reilly Media

by O'Reilly Media

On both 5 and HTML5 ECMAScript, JavaScript Cookbook helps you leverage the latest web features, including the persistent storage mechanisms HTML5 and design. You will find solutions for the integration of these features with JavaScript in the user interfaces that people like to use. The recipes in this book will not only help you do things, they will also help develop applications that work reliably in all browsers.

Why reinvent the wheel each time you run into a problem with JavaScript?This book is chock full of code recipes that address common programming tasks and techniques for building web applications that work with any browser. Just copy and paste the code samples in the project - you will get the job done faster and learn more about JavaScript in the process.

You'll also learn how to take advantage of new functionality in 5, and ECMAScript HTML5, including new widget means of communication cross-domain, HTML5 video and audio elements, and the drawing area. You'll find recipes for using these features with JavaScript to create application interfaces of high quality....

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News

Hotline Sort: Berg's Poll Position in North Dakota

National Journal (blog) - Dec 31, 1969

The Boston Herald reports that the Senate candidate was "touting her claim of Cherokee heritage as early as 1984, according to a cookbook titled Pow Wow Chow edited by her cousin that includes Warren's recipes for a savory crab omelet and spicy

Madonna's Secret for Longevity Seen Aiding Bacteria Boom

Bloomberg - Dec 31, 1969

“I feel better than I did 20 years ago,” Madonna wrote in a preface to the cookbook her chef had published in 2010. “I am very grateful to you for this.” The garden analogy is helpful when it comes to describing the complex ecology of the bacteria

Humm of Eleven Madison Park Wins in James Beard Awards

Bloomberg - Dec 31, 1969

Myhrvold's Book Nathan Myhrvold and co-authors Chris Young and Maxime Bilet won Cookbook of the Year for “Modernist Cuisine” in the James Beard Foundation Book Awards at Gotham Hall on May 4. British writer Fuchsia Dunlop won for Food Culture and

Do / May 2012 / Weekend Warrior: Leonard Cohen, Festival of Ideas and Creation ...

Post City - Dec 31, 1969

He'll be at the Chapters store in Bayview Village Shopping Centre on Sunday to sign copies of his new cookbook, Garde Manger, ahead of the book's official launch at The Drake Hotel on Monday. Hopefully, he'll recount his Iron Chef America showdown,

Dell tests open-source laptop for developers

GigaOM - Dec 31, 1969

The first profiles will be for Android, Ruby and JavaScript. Most Linux distributions come with a downloadable LAMP stack to jump start development. What Dell is doing is giving developers a quick way to find and install a software stack from github so