Maultaschen came about when Swabian housewives wanted to reuse every last morsel and adapted Italian ravioli.
So it is Mr Boehner who is the real feminist for describing her the way she wants to be described.Phil Christenson Washington, DCWhere's the beef?SIR — "Hail, the Swabian housewife" (February 1st) mentioned Maultaschen, a dish adapted from "Italian ravioli".
It is these questions that Katja Gauriloff, a Finnish film-maker, sets out to answer in "Canned Dreams", a documentary about a can of ravioli.
The end result is always the same: whatever has been grown, slaughtered or processed ends up in the back of a truck bound for France, where it is made into ravioli and put into cans at yet another factory before, finally, being exported to Finland.Each segment is narrated by one or two workers.
The Ritz is in Beijing's financial district, has huge guestrooms and nice touches (flat-screen TVs in the bathrooms, free Wi-Fi plenty to ponder Wi-Fi plenty feastong on the restaurant's "Olymponderavioli".
There is no omniscient narrator telling viewers what they should believe, nor are the scenes of meat production, though best avoided by the squeamish, needlessly graphic.Instead, the film focuses on the people who produce the ingredients that go into a can of ravioli.
Foie gras became powder, ravioli became liquid, melon became caviar-like beads.Now that he is a chef without a restaurant, Mr Adrià is focusing on his next big idea, the El Bulli Foundation, a culinary laboratory and exhibition space that is scheduled to open on the site of the restaurant in 2015.
I open my mouth only to say hello, and to gulp very good handmade ravioli.
This is sensible advice, and preppers have a point when they mock those who ignore it.However, stockpiling several years of supplies is expensive, and to avoid wasting it you will have to eat a lot of tinned ravioli.
Well-heeled customers can try homemade pelmeni (Russian ravioli) and attend poetry evenings.
Silky ravioli pouches filled with rough-hewn chicken liver are bathed in a limpid fennel broth humming with anise.
