DESPITE BEING A LONG WALK from a high street in outer West London, The Scotsman is very busy for a drab Monday lunchtime. Before I open the door, I hear loud voices and music, at odds with its austere-looking Edwardian exterior. I pause, wondering what welcome I, a brown drinker, will receive in a locals’ pub unfamiliar to me.I needn’t have worried. Two old Asian boozers glued to their barstools nod when I approach, and the brown bartender smiles. The decor includes a large portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh empire. The music isn’t pop but Bhangra, and a sign on a window proudly states “Authentic Punjabi Cuisine.” Shinda Mahal, the landlord, appears, checks the cricket score on the TV, and then chats with some regulars.Instead, it’s a table of white construction workers—eating spicy chicken lollipops and drinking pints of lager—who stand out as a visible, but welcome, minority here. The only thing missing is an actual Scotsman. (The name comes from the road: Scotts Road.)The Scotsman is one of the UK’s many desi pubs, run by Mahal for more than 15 years in Southall, a part of London with a high concentration of Asians (75 percent, per the last census). Desi pubs are Anglo-Indian boozers run by Asians, established a time when non-white Brits faced segregation. In desi bars, brown drinkers could safely play Bhangra music and eat Punjabi food after working grueling manual jobs.South Asians no longer face exclusion from pubs—which are so integral a part of British social life—but desi bars like The Scotsman remain, reflecting both the tensions and triumphs of a multiracial Britain. They provide a different experience to “English” spaces where white landlords serve traditional food and beer. In a typical desi pub, Asian culture is not just tolerated, but celebrated.
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Dessert perogies may not be familiar to those without Northern European connections, but they are as big a part of a traditional meal as the more savory varieties. And on the Canadian Prairies, those desserts take the form of saskatoon berry perogies.Rob Engel, the owner of Baba’s Homestyle Perogies, notes that a traditional Ukrainian dessert perogy would have a prune filling. When Ukrainians first started immigrating to the Canadian Prairies more than 100 years ago, however, prune plums were nowhere to be seen, both on trees or in local grocery stores. So the industrious newcomers turned to the locally available saskatoon berry bushes that dotted the treed areas of the countryside.Engel states that saskatoon berry perogies have remained a regional favorite ever since, appearing at holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. Baba’s Homestyle Perogies sources most of their saskatoon berries from local orchards such as Prairie Berries, located in Keeler, Saskatchewan. Engel recommends the best way to enjoy the sweet perogies to boil, panfry, then serve them with ice cream or whipping cream. The crispy coating on the fried dumpling makes the dessert perogy taste like a piece of hot saskatoon pie. “There is a little Ukrainian in everyone in Saskatchewan and Alberta,” says Engel. He notes that some customers comment that the aroma of his restaurant brings back memories of their baba’s kitchen. There are even job titles at the restaurant such as “pinchers” and “rollers,” people who dedicate their working hours to pinching perogies shut or rolling cabbage rolls, another very popular Northern European staple.Saskatoon berry perogies hold a place of honor on Ukrainian-Canadians’ kitchen tables and serve as a testament to the adaptability and ingenuity of their immigrant ancestors. This humble boiled dumpling holds historical meaning and memories to those who seek it out.* Note: This article uses the spelling of perogy (or perogies) that is common in the Saskatchewan region.
(CNN) — If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 30 years before you receive your order.That isn’t a typo. Thirty. Years.Founded in 1926, Asahiya sold meat products from Hyogo prefecture — Kobe beef included — for decades before adding beef croquettes to the shelf in the years following WWII.But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that these deep-fried potato and beef dumplings became an internet sensation, resulting in the ridiculously long wait buyers now face.An unprofitable business ideaThe highly coveted “Extreme Croquettes” are one of four types of Kobe beef croquettes available at Asahiya. Can’t wait three decades? The shop’s Premier Kobe Beef Croquettes currently have a more palatable four-year waitlist.”We started selling our products through online shopping in 1999,” explains Shigeru Nitta, third-generation owner of Asahiya. “At that time, we offered Extreme Croquettes as a trial.”Growing up in Hyogo, Nitta has been visiting the local ranches and beef auctions with his father since he was young.He took over the shop from his father in 1994 when he was 30 years old.After experimenting with e-commerce for a few years, he realized customers were hesitant to pay a hefty sum for prime beef online.
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Shiffrin broke Stenmark’s record which had stood for 34 years (Agence Zoom)
Mikaela Shiffrin chose the home of Swedish skiing to land her 87th and record-setting World Cup win. But the man whose mark she took and who once dominated his home slopes of Are, could not be happier.
“She deserves the record more than anyone else,” Ingemar Stenmark told the FIS.
“It’s just fun. She is a great skier and seems to be a very sympathetic person. So, I just think it’s nice for her.”
The two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion caused Alpine fever in the Scandinavian country in the 70s and 80s. He reached the top of a World Cup podium for the first time in 1974, took three consecutive overall World Cup titles between 1976 and 1978, and claimed his 86th World Cup victory in February 1989, a couple of weeks before retiring.
Stenmark’s record stood for 34 years. It could have fallen sooner: the USA’s Lindsey Vonn claimed her 82nd World Cup win in March 2018 before injuries forced her retirement at the age of 34.
Having seen Shiffrin in action, however, Stenmark knew his record did not have many years left.
“Already back then I said that Shiffrin will definitely get 100 wins. And I still think she will do that if she continues,” he said.
Shiffrin is the ultimate ski racer according to Stenmark (Agence Zoom)
“She is a complete skier. She has a good technique, but it’s not only that. She has physical strength, she has a strong head – those things combined make her so good.
“And she’s smart too. She doesn’t have to race at 100%’s speed. She knows that the others have to go beyond their ability (to beat her) and that they will make some mistakes.”
Shiffrin has often hailed Stenmark as an inspiration and someone who set the standards for today’s racers. The Alpine icon is humbled by her words.
“She seems to know who I am anyway,” he said.
“It’s a bit incomprehensible to me. It’s been so long since I quit.”
The Swedish technical specialist is hesitant to compare similarities between himself and the new record holder, but agrees it takes a different level of drive to get to 86 World Cup wins and beyond.
“To reach the top and be able to keep winning so many competitions, you have to try to find a new motivation, new goals. And that’s what’s hard when you’ve been around for a while and when you’ve won a lot,” Stenmark said.
“She is starting to get – and is already – good at super-G. And she can do downhill races well too, so perhaps that’s a new motivation for her.”
Shiffrin’s 87 World Cup victories are spread across slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super-G, combined, parallel, and city events. Stenmark’s 86 wins came in 46 giant slaloms and 40 slaloms.
He does not remember when in the early 1980s he passed Austria’s 62-time World Cup winner Annemarie Moser-Proell to take the record. But he does feel for Shiffrin who now has to find new goals to reach, new records to break – even though he is sure she will do that.
“It is difficult,” Stenmark said.
Stenmark is certain Shiffrin is far from finished (Agence Zoom)
“When I broke that record, it was a long time before I quit. It was nice when you broke the record. But after that, I never thought about it. And I don’t think she’ll care too much after beating it either. She just has to find some other motivations.”
Stenmark has stayed active beyond his professional skiing career. In 1996 and 2011 he won Swedish TV shows in which former athletes competed against each other, and in 2015 he took the title in Sweden’s version of celebrity TV dance show ‘Dancing with the Stars’.
And the passion for speed is still there. Over the past two years, the father-of-two has swapped ski slopes for car race courses, competing in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Scandinavia.
Stenmark said his motivation “ran out a bit” after his gold medals in slalom and giant slalom at the Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Winter Games. Yet he stayed in the sport for almost another decade as he kept smashing records.
“I can’t say I was aiming to break records, I just tried to win race after race,” he said.
“The world championships and the Olympics were perhaps the motivation for me. In the last few years, the motivation was to be with my friends in the Swedish national team. It was a nice group of people.”
Stenmark believes Shiffrin has the potential and drive to keep collecting World Cup wins in the years ahead, especially since her partner, Norwegian Alpine ace Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, 30, is also on the tour.
“After all, she has a boyfriend – Kilde – who is also doing it, so that makes it easier,” Stenmark said.
“They can train together in the summer and motivate each other.”
Mikaela Shiffrin has more World Cup titles than anyone in the history of the sport (Agence Zoom)
It is official, Mikaela Shiffrin is the greatest Alpine skier of all time.
She is also undoubtedly one of the most dominant athletes in sport right now.
At the age of just 27 and 12 years to the day after her first Audi FIS World Cup race, the American stormed to her 87th victory. In a further piece of perfect symmetry, the win that took her past the great Ingemar Stenmark’s long-standing mark, came in the home of Swedish skiing, Are, where she won her first ever World Cup race back in 2012.
She did it in magnificent style too, dominating both slalom runs to take her second win in two days, this one by a vast margin of 0.92 seconds. The two skiers to get closest to the new record holder had just one word for Shiffrin’s quite remarkable career to date.
“Crazy,” laughed both second place Wendy Holdener and hometown hero Anna Swenn Larsson.
Stenmark himself recently gave the FIS his assessment of why Shiffrin is in a class of her own.
“She is a complete skier. She has a good technique, but it’s not only that. She has physical strength, she has a strong head – those things combined make her so good,” said the Swede who won his 86th race at the age of 32, back in 1989.
“And she’s smart too. She doesn’t have to race at 100% speed. She knows that the others have to go beyond their ability (to beat her) and that they will make some mistakes.”
Mistakes from her rivals or not, Shiffrin looked utterly untouchable in Are. Smooth and confident in the morning’s first run, she defied the nerves she claims to always feel in the second, to get into her free-flowing style almost from the gate.
After crossing the line, she froze seemingly in disbelief for a moment, before rocking on her haunches as the enormity of what she has achieved hit. The surprise presence in the finish area of her brother and his wife, alongside her mother, prompted the floodgates to open.
“Those are the moments that make this,” Shiffrin said, the tears still in her eyes. “I can’t put a name with the numbers, I’ve said this the whole time, I don’t know how to define that but when you have these special moments like being on the podium with Paula Moltzan in Semmering, seeing my brother and Christie and my mum in the finish today, that’s what makes it memorable.
“What an unbelievable day.
“I am so proud of the skiing I did both runs today. I am so proud of the team this whole season, every step of the way being strong and focused and positive and having the right goals and helping me manage my own focus and the distractions as well, it’s been incredible.”
Shiffrin could hardly believe what she has already achieved (Agence Zoom)
Incredible is absolutely the right word. Even amongst her extraordinary efforts so far, this season stands out. Shiffrin has won six out of the 10 World Cup slalom races so far, plus six out of the nine giant slaloms. That means more than 63% of the time she has lined up for a technical World Cup race this season, she has won.
She has already secured the overall, the slalom and the giant slalom season titles and her efforts today take her to 53 World Cup slalom wins, already seven more than any other skier has managed in any single discipline.
The sport is lucky to have her and knows it.
“Congratulations on one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports, Mikaela,” FIS President Johan Eliasch said. “This was a record which was thought to be almost unbreakable. You are an inspiration for generations to come.”
She is an inspiration for the current generation too. Swenn Larsson, whose third place was a fourth podium in what has been a great season, is just thankful to be competing in the same era as Shiffrin.
“She is such a great athlete and person. She is unbelievable and it’s really cool to race against her,” said the Swede who could see her home from the top of the slalom run. “I hope to beat her one more time or two more times before I’m done, that’s my goal.”
Shiffrin broke Stenmark’s record which had stood for 34 years (Agence Zoom)
Mikaela Shiffrin chose the home of Swedish skiing to land her 87th and record-setting World Cup win. But the man whose mark she took and who once dominated his home slopes of Are, could not be happier.
“She deserves the record more than anyone else,” Ingemar Stenmark told the FIS.
“It’s just fun. She is a great skier and seems to be a very sympathetic person. So, I just think it’s nice for her.”
The two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion caused Alpine fever in the Scandinavian country in the 70s and 80s. He reached the top of a World Cup podium for the first time in 1974, took three consecutive overall World Cup titles between 1976 and 1978, and claimed his 86th World Cup victory in February 1989, a couple of weeks before retiring.
Stenmark’s record stood for 34 years. It could have fallen sooner: the USA’s Lindsey Vonn claimed her 82nd World Cup win in March 2018 before injuries forced her retirement at the age of 34.
Having seen Shiffrin in action, however, Stenmark knew his record did not have many years left.
“Already back then I said that Shiffrin will definitely get 100 wins. And I still think she will do that if she continues,” he said.
Shiffrin is the ultimate ski racer according to Stenmark (Agence Zoom)
“She is a complete skier. She has a good technique, but it’s not only that. She has physical strength, she has a strong head – those things combined make her so good.
“And she’s smart too. She doesn’t have to race at 100%’s speed. She knows that the others have to go beyond their ability (to beat her) and that they will make some mistakes.”
Shiffrin has often hailed Stenmark as an inspiration and someone who set the standards for today’s racers. The Alpine icon is humbled by her words.
“She seems to know who I am anyway,” he said.
“It’s a bit incomprehensible to me. It’s been so long since I quit.”
The Swedish technical specialist is hesitant to compare similarities between himself and the new record holder, but agrees it takes a different level of drive to get to 86 World Cup wins and beyond.
“To reach the top and be able to keep winning so many competitions, you have to try to find a new motivation, new goals. And that’s what’s hard when you’ve been around for a while and when you’ve won a lot,” Stenmark said.
“She is starting to get – and is already – good at super-G. And she can do downhill races well too, so perhaps that’s a new motivation for her.”
Shiffrin’s 87 World Cup victories are spread across slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super-G, combined, parallel, and city events. Stenmark’s 86 wins came in 46 giant slaloms and 40 slaloms.
He does not remember when in the early 1980s he passed Austria’s 62-time World Cup winner Annemarie Moser-Proell to take the record. But he does feel for Shiffrin who now has to find new goals to reach, new records to break – even though he is sure she will do that.
“It is difficult,” Stenmark said.
Stenmark is certain Shiffrin is far from finished (Agence Zoom)
“When I broke that record, it was a long time before I quit. It was nice when you broke the record. But after that, I never thought about it. And I don’t think she’ll care too much after beating it either. She just has to find some other motivations.”
Stenmark has stayed active beyond his professional skiing career. In 1996 and 2011 he won Swedish TV shows in which former athletes competed against each other, and in 2015 he took the title in Sweden’s version of celebrity TV dance show ‘Dancing with the Stars’.
And the passion for speed is still there. Over the past two years, the father-of-two has swapped ski slopes for car race courses, competing in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Scandinavia.
Stenmark said his motivation “ran out a bit” after his gold medals in slalom and giant slalom at the Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Winter Games. Yet he stayed in the sport for almost another decade as he kept smashing records.
“I can’t say I was aiming to break records, I just tried to win race after race,” he said.
“The world championships and the Olympics were perhaps the motivation for me. In the last few years, the motivation was to be with my friends in the Swedish national team. It was a nice group of people.”
Stenmark believes Shiffrin has the potential and drive to keep collecting World Cup wins in the years ahead, especially since her partner, Norwegian Alpine ace Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, 30, is also on the tour.
“After all, she has a boyfriend – Kilde – who is also doing it, so that makes it easier,” Stenmark said.
“They can train together in the summer and motivate each other.”
Mikaela Shiffrin has more World Cup titles than anyone in the history of the sport (Agence Zoom)
It is official, Mikaela Shiffrin is the greatest Alpine skier of all time.
She is also undoubtedly one of the most dominant athletes in sport right now.
At the age of just 27 and 12 years to the day after her first Audi FIS World Cup race, the American stormed to her 87th victory. In a further piece of perfect symmetry, the win that took her past the great Ingemar Stenmark’s long-standing mark, came in the home of Swedish skiing, Are, where she won her first ever World Cup race back in 2012.
She did it in magnificent style too, dominating both slalom runs to take her second win in two days, this one by a vast margin of 0.92 seconds. The two skiers to get closest to the new record holder had just one word for Shiffrin’s quite remarkable career to date.
“Crazy,” laughed both second place Wendy Holdener and hometown hero Anna Swenn Larsson.
Stenmark himself recently gave the FIS his assessment of why Shiffrin is in a class of her own.
“She is a complete skier. She has a good technique, but it’s not only that. She has physical strength, she has a strong head – those things combined make her so good,” said the Swede who won his 86th race at the age of 32, back in 1989.
“And she’s smart too. She doesn’t have to race at 100% speed. She knows that the others have to go beyond their ability (to beat her) and that they will make some mistakes.”
Mistakes from her rivals or not, Shiffrin looked utterly untouchable in Are. Smooth and confident in the morning’s first run, she defied the nerves she claims to always feel in the second, to get into her free-flowing style almost from the gate.
After crossing the line, she froze seemingly in disbelief for a moment, before rocking on her haunches as the enormity of what she has achieved hit. The surprise presence in the finish area of her brother and his wife, alongside her mother, prompted the floodgates to open.
“Those are the moments that make this,” Shiffrin said, the tears still in her eyes. “I can’t put a name with the numbers, I’ve said this the whole time, I don’t know how to define that but when you have these special moments like being on the podium with Paula Moltzan in Semmering, seeing my brother and Christie and my mum in the finish today, that’s what makes it memorable.
“What an unbelievable day.
“I am so proud of the skiing I did both runs today. I am so proud of the team this whole season, every step of the way being strong and focused and positive and having the right goals and helping me manage my own focus and the distractions as well, it’s been incredible.”
Shiffrin could hardly believe what she has already achieved (Agence Zoom)
Incredible is absolutely the right word. Even amongst her extraordinary efforts so far, this season stands out. Shiffrin has won six out of the 10 World Cup slalom races so far, plus six out of the nine giant slaloms. That means more than 63% of the time she has lined up for a technical World Cup race this season, she has won.
She has already secured the overall, the slalom and the giant slalom season titles and her efforts today take her to 53 World Cup slalom wins, already seven more than any other skier has managed in any single discipline.
The sport is lucky to have her and knows it.
“Congratulations on one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports, Mikaela,” FIS President Johan Eliasch said. “This was a record which was thought to be almost unbreakable. You are an inspiration for generations to come.”
She is an inspiration for the current generation too. Swenn Larsson, whose third place was a fourth podium in what has been a great season, is just thankful to be competing in the same era as Shiffrin.
“She is such a great athlete and person. She is unbelievable and it’s really cool to race against her,” said the Swede who could see her home from the top of the slalom run. “I hope to beat her one more time or two more times before I’m done, that’s my goal.”
The Canadian city was awarded its inaugural stars last week, with just eight restaurants making the cut. Those restaurants were all given one star, meaning Vancouver has no dining establishments that would compete with the very best in the world.The Michelin one-star spots in Vancouver span four different types of cuisine: contemporary, Japanese, French and Chinese—many of the usual suspects Michelin inspectors seem to favor no matter the city. On the contemporary side, AnnaLena, Barbara, Burdock & Co and Published on Main made the cut. Kissa Tanto and Masayoshi, both serving up Japanese cuisine, followed suit. iDen & QuanJuDe Beijing Duck House, known for its Chinese dishes of duck, king crab and sea cucumber, celebrated its first star. And St. Lawrence, which the guide calls a “charming Québécois bistro,” rounds out the list.
Garrett Bemiller, a 25-year-old New Yorker, has spent his entire life online. He grew up in front of screens, swiping from one app to the next. But there’s one skill set Bemiller admits he’s less comfortable with: the humble office printer.
“Things like scanners and copy machines are complicated,” says Bemiller, who works as a publicist. The first time he had to copy something in the office didn’t exactly go well. “It kept coming out as a blank page, and took me a couple times to realize that I had to place the paper upside-down in the machine for it to work.”
Bemiller usually turns to Google for answers. But he’s also found an alliance with some older workers, who are veterans of the copy room and can swiftly purchase shipping labels on the office UPS account.
Bemiller knows that the expectation is that he’d be the one helping them out with tech issues. “There is a myth that kids were born into an information age, and that this all comes intuitively to them,” said Sarah Dexter, an associate professor of education at the University of Virginia. “But that is not realistic. How would they know how to scan something if they’ve never been taught how to do it?”
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