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Lentils with Olive Oil and Vinegar
One of my long standing favourites. I actually learned about this recipe on my first trip to Italy in 1982. It was the Chef of the Hotel/Restaurant "le Onde" in Terracina, who prepared the dish, at least something similar.
Ivan Herman on Semtech
SemTech2009 impressions « Ivan’s private site
But, as a last minute addition to the program, the organizers succeeded in getting Othar Hansson and Kavi Goel to talk about Google’s rich sniplets. I have already blogged on this a few weeks ago but this presentation made the goal of the project way more understandable. Essentially, by recognizing specific microformat or RDFa vocabularies,
First Performance as Guest Chef
Last Thursday I had my first performance as guest chef in a restaurant. The picture shows me with my daughter and her friends.
The occasion was the 17th birthday of Matilde, which she celebrated together with the 17th birthday of a friend Claudio (on the right) in the Restaurant "La Formica e la Cicala" in Via Urbana in Monti. Andrea, the owner of the restaurant is our friend and so I could join the colleagues from Bangla Desh in the kitchen that night. The menu was:
- Insalata tiepida di lenticchie
- Trenette al pesto
New RDF modules for Drupal
Two New Products Show the Promise of ‘Data-driven Apps’ » AI3:::Adaptive Information
More than 2 years ago, when I was screaning Content Management Systems, I chose Drupal as a platform for my team in FAO to work on. I had mainly 2 reasons:
Bildungsstreik
In Germany High School Students and University students are on strike. Well, some of them. At the moment it really does not look like a mass movement :-).
Reasons: what I got from the radio stations, the university students are protesting against the introduction of university fees and against the "Bologna Reforms" which introduced the split of German University curricula into Bachelor and Master Courses. The High School Students are protesting against too big classes and the shortening of the secondary schooling from 9 years to 8 years.
Der Goldene Hahn
I don't like it, if in a Restaurant they deliver me the invoice before I did ask for it. I feel like being thrown out. And so I felt when the waitress brought me the invoice when I just had taken the last sip from my wine. Presumably they were irritated seeing me dining with note block and camera.
Law on "living will" in Germany
The German Parliament yesterday has decided a law about the "living will", "testamento biologico" in Italian.
An "advanced directive" (living will) is now completely binding for doctor, hospitals and relatives.
Background in German at.http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/politik/130415/index.php.

The initator of the law, the socialdemocrat law expert Stuenker said "Jeder Patient hat das Recht, seiner Krankheit den natürlichen Verlauf zu lassen", this means it is the right of a patient to let an illness go it's natural course,
Mozzarelle con Fiori di Zucca ed Alici
You will need the small Cherry Mozzarellas. Obviously di buffalo. Well at least with the percentage of buffalo milk. Dead easy recipe:
Carots and Leek
That sounds banal, but it is not if... If you get very young leek. Saturday my veggie-monger at Piazza Vittorio had this fabulous leek, only twice as thick as spring onions and with an incredible fragrance. Also the carots were tasty and not as the many pinky water concentrates you get often.
A nearly perfect Fisch"Curry"
You cannot do this often. You need some friend, who comes back from the tropics and brings you a fresh coconut. Cheers to Modesta, our Phillipine cleaning lady, who brought a fresh coconut from her own tree at home.
OK, I called it Curry, but there is not an ounce of Curry Pulver in it, instead:
- a good amount of ginger
- not too much garlic
- a bunch of spring onions
- a tomatoe
- some thai chilli
- fresh coriander
if you are adventurous enough also capers and peppers (not too much, but so it gets really fusion)













