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Who says young people aren't interested in cooking? Maybe it's because the ingredients just sit in bags and cans on the counter? Boring! Grumbling that studying nutrition is dull and dry? How interesting would preparing the daily meal be if the ingredients actually came right out of the heart of the amazing African equatorial tropical rainforest, were the colors of city taxi-cabs including the brake-lights, and started bolting in thirty-five different directions while the chef's back was turned?  'ngala' - an edible caterpillar common in the central African rainforest of Bas-Congo, Congo (Imbrasia forda/Cirina forda) Many different species of high-protein, high-energy edible caterpillars (les chenilles comestibles in French) are harvested from the countryside and sold live or dried in city markets. Here shown one species called 'ngala' (Imbrasia forda/ Cirina forda)*. Traditional harvesting adheres to important centuries-old rules and practices that make sure the seasonal caterpillar (chenille) harvests always allow one generation to mature to moths and butterflies that contribute to the health and flourishing of the local flora.
*Identified through this indispensable reference: Les chenilles comestibles et leur plants. Edible caterpillars in African cuisine at > Chenilles comestible at J'vois nice Africa! A murder investigation is no time to play games – or is it?
Episode # 20: An Imaginative Man. A classic-style fast-paced fiction crime-solving adventure that fits in a coffee break with the intrepid duo, Inspector Pascal and Sergeant Braque. Best Foreign Language Program Ever: FLE for 5th Graders: What's Stocked in a Typical French Frigo?18/5/2016
How to teach non-French-speaking 5th graders a proper French food vocabulary, just like the French do with their kids, using the expression of 'quantity' as in 'some.' First item: 'some' milk, 'some' beer, followed by 'some' water, a 'few' eggs, 'some' meat, fish, spinach, shrimp - jumbo shrimp at that, cheese (bien sur!), there's 'some' salad, butter, jam preserves, yogurt, ice cream and sausage. Hungry yet? Next French lesson: Which type of beer (pale or dark) marries best with grilled gambas?   "La vérité pour l'homme, c'est qui fait de lui un homme."
"The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Pilot, Author of The Little Prince/Le petit prince Pioneering aviator, pilot, air-mail delivery France-Africa-South America, adventurer, writer, above-the-clouds philosopher, shot down in World War II New! #18 Questions. A murder, a cunning killer, how did they know?
Click on the menu bar above for the latest Inspector Pascal Mysteries 1000, then be sure to click on more to find more mystery-adventure at Inspector Pascal Mysteries 4000. When 1000 words of fast-paced, short-story fiction mystery-adventure with Inspector Pascal Mysteries 1000 just aren't enough, here's four times the adventure! Readers have been asking for more Inspector Pascal, so from time to time when intrepid Inspector Pascal and Sergeant Braque need more time to solve the crime, watch for the special 4000-word episodes of Inspector Pascal Mysteries 4000 at TIPTOPduTOP. Click on MORE at the menu bar above to see the brand new page exclusively for 4000-word short story fiction mystery-adventure: Inspector Pascal Mysteries 4000   Another day at TIPTOPduTOP means another trail to explore! This one seems nice and mysterious! Wonder what is waiting ahead to discover?  Stop looking up at the forest, look down! Watch your feet! There's something large moving across the trail. A big snake! No... wait... it's snake-like, but sort of furry-looking, and it's moving, yet without moving. The brain takes a moment to figure out what it's seeing. The core is in motion, but the sides aren't? How is that possible?  It seems to be draining down a hole, like liquid. The center seems to have a flow - like blood in a vein - how curious!  A closer - very, very careful - inspection reveals an absolutely classic military formation, the phalanx! All in ants! Heavily-pincered fighting ants form two bristling defensive lines facing outward to protect the path of thousands of worker ants busy porting food into the nest. A grand military deployment snaking over the forest floor and across the vulnerable open stretch of the path, yet every detail in miniature! The explorers marvel, but prudently pass by without disturbing these formidable Formicidae in their daily work - the ants may be small, but they know how to fight!
 “A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is
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