The “Axis of Evil” Dinner Party

Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations, by Chris Fair (h/t to Ann)

What can a nation’s eating habits tell you about it?
Isn’t Middle Eastern food all alike?
Which of your axis of evil dinner parties has gone over best?

More questions and answers: What if you gave a dinner party and the Axis of Evil came?, and her favorite dish: Khoresht-e Fessenjan!

See also:

Litterature from the Axis of Evil

Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, Audio here – (h/t musicalchief)

Drawing Paradise on the ‘Axis of Evil’: Images from an art exhibition by Emily Johns

Mud Cookies

Poor Haitians ressort to eating dirt
Link via Vivre en Syrie

“… Prices for basic ingredients such as corn and wheat are … up sharply … The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places.

… at about 5 cents apiece, the (mud) cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 a day …” read more

Some Tehran Links

Tehran24.com
Click to see in larger format
Tehran in Wikimapia, Wikipedia, Answer.com and the Uncyclopedia!

Tehran Avenue: Art, society, outdoors and the fourth online music festival
Tehran Underground music

Tehran page, BBC Persian: History, old and new city, photo & video

Mahmoud Pakzad’s Old Tehran, Payvand
See also Old Tehran: Photo gallery at iranian.com

Tehran Metro
Art in Tehran’s metro
Tehran Municipality official website

Tehran travel guide, wikitravel and Tehran forum, Trip advisor

Cafe Naderi
The 1st European Style Café in Tehran Since 1927
Via Tehran 24 photoblog

Photos/Photoblogs:
Tehran 24
Life goes on in Tehran
Shahram Razavi: Tehran mega capital of Iran
Behrooz Noorizadeh: Photo gallery

Weblog: Live from Tehran ***

Museums:

National Museum of Iran
Reza Abassi Museum
Glasseware and Ceramic Museum
The Carpet Museum
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Niavaran Palace
Golestan Palace, Persian, see pictures

Saadabad Palace, Persian
All Tehran Museums

Tehran yellow page, Persian

Restaurant reviews from World reviewer: Lounge, Boulevard
A good vegetarian restaurant in Tehran, Payvand

an oldie: … images of Tehran you don’t see everyday
Tintin in Tehran

Never Been to Tehran : … invited worldwide participants–who have Never Been to Tehran–will take photographs (from their home base) of what they imagine Tehran to look like … (See next post)

Previous relevant posts:
Old times
This is the before 

Any additional suggestion?

Random Links

For a “light read”: True-Live Tales, The Bounty by Firoozeh Dumas for NYT:

“I blame my parents. They never threw food away. I thought it was perfectly normal for a mother to say: “It’s starting to go bad. You have to eat it.”

Fast-forward 30 years: I’m living in an affluent part of Northern California. Life is good, except for a dark secret in our suburb …” read more

A brief Explanation of all history, or on aggressiveness, see 338

Liver invading the pancreas & Newton Politics!
Hometown Baghdad: A series of very short-2, 3mn- video vignettes providing glimpses of everyday life of a middle class family in Baghdad. Tks PPGG Ann El khoury