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Algiers, Algeria - The Casbah is specifically the citadel of Algiers and the traditional quarter clustered around it. (More generally, a kasbah is the walled citadel of many North African cities and towns. The name made its way into English from French in the late 19th century (the Oxford English Dictionary says 1895), and continues to be spelled as acquired from that language.)
Cheese Day, Stop 2 - Plymouth Artisan Cheese. Bonus - they're located in the Calvin Coolidge Historic Site. Lots of stuff to look at in the rain.
An artisan in a traditional Pondo dancing cosutme counting meters of strung beads during a product development workshop with Aid to Artisans. She was headed to dance auditions for the Gramstown festival in South Africa.
Palo Alto Online: It's the first restaurant for Chan and his wife Vanessa, but both have culinary roots. The family of Tony Chan, who is from Los Altos, owns Lucky Chinese Bistro in Mountain View. His family also owns a well-known restaurant chain in Taiwan whose "claim to fame," he said, is its former chef: the now-deceased Peng Chang-kuei, who invented General Tso's Chicken.
Chang'an is Vanessa Chan's "baby," her husband said. She hails from Shenyang in north east China and trained at a well-known "noodle academy" in Xi'an, the capital of the Shaanxi Province in north west China. The Mountain View restaurant gets its name from the ancient city's previous name, Chang'an, and specializes in a type of noodle that originated there: biang biang noodles.
Biang biang noodles are hand-pulled and then ripped into jagged, wide strips. At Chang'an, they're served with lamb, bell peppers, onion and a spicy cumin sauce. (A reflection of a Muslim influence in Xi'an, which was located on the Silk Road and has a Muslim Quarter today.)
580 N Rengstorff Ave Ste J, Mountain View, CA 94043
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That's what I call people who work with their hands, including artists! The Bucks County Renaissance Faire had artisans in nice variety, including this man who made cool things with his scroll saw.