标题: Bintje Potato of Belgium [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-10-2011 09:00 标题: Bintje Potato of Belgium Frances Robinson, In Belgium, Potato Fans Fret Over Fate of Frites; Bintjes Are Best, but the Storied Spud Is a Global Dud for Farmers. Wall Street Journal, Sept 17, 2011 (front page). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 73201537015890.html
Quote:
video caption: "Belgium's bintjes are small potatoes, literally."
"Belgium's per capita annual french fry consumption exceeds America's by about a third.
"the history of the bintje, created in the early 20th century by a Dutch schoolteacher, who named the new variety after one of his pupils, a girl called Bintje.
Note:
(a) The report says, "French fries aren't French—they're Belgian."
It is controversial.
French fries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries
(Distinguish, in UK, chips (which are traditionally fatter and less elongated); French fries are known as frites in French; section 2 2 Culinary origin: the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735)
See also
potato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
(Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to Uruguay; genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru, where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago; section 1 Etymology: spud)
(b) For Walloon, see Wallonia.
(i) Belgium is roughly separated into Flanders/ Flemish Region (the Dutch-speaking northern region) and Wallonia/ Walloon Region (the French-speaking southern region).
(ii) Wallonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallonia
(The root of the word Wallonia, like the words Wales, Cornwall and Wallachia,[4] is the Germanic word Walha, meaning the strangers)
Quote:
Wallonia "makes up 55% of the territory of Belgium but with only a third of its population
"During the industrial revolution, Wallonia trailed only the United Kingdom in industrialization, capitalizing on its extensive deposits of coal and iron. This brought the region wealth, and, from the beginning of the 19th to the middle of the 20th centuries, Wallonia was the more prosperous half of Belgium. Since World War II, however, the importance of heavy industry has greatly declined, and the Flemish Region surpassed Wallonia in wealth as Wallonia economically declined.
(e) The report mentioned an instruction: "fry them twice in beef dripping."
dripping (n): "fat and juices drawn from meat during cooking —often used in plural" www.m-w.com
(f) The report talked about "Royal Academy of Fine Arts."
Belgium is a constitutional monarchy: King Albert II (1934- ; reign 1993- )
(g)
(i) Tournai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournai
(in the Walloon Region)
The report was dispatched from "Kain, Belgium." See the very beginning of the report.
My comment: The report says "这个 [立法院] 修正案有待总统宣布后生效," There is no check-and-balance mechanism in the constitution of Republic of China; president can not veto budgets or bills of Legislature. So the bill is final.
Note:
(a) Taipei Times also publishes the same report, with additions supplied by the Taiwanese newspaper's staff, one being: "According to the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Japan is the third country to sign an open skies agreement with Taiwan, following the US and Singapore."
(b) Open Skies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_skies
(section 3 Civil transport open skies)
(c) Open Skies Agreements. US Department of State, undated. http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/tra/ata/
Please click two tags:
(i) "Full List of Open Skies Partners"
, which shows Partner 14 Taiwan, Date Concluded 2/28/97)
The number "14" alludes to Taiwan being the fourteenth partner, in chronological order.
(ii) "Select a letter below to see all countries beginning with that letter."
, where T does not include Taiwan (not is Taiwan categorized in C, as Republic of China or Chinese Taipei, say).
(d) 2010 a Big Year for US Open Skies Agreements. Euromonitor, Mar 4, 2011 (blog) http://blog.euromonitor.com/2011 ... ies-agreements.html
("Some key markets, however, still do not have open skies agreements with the US including, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Mexico and South Africa")
(5) Peter Clarke, TSMC: 28-nm Tech, Demand 'on Plan.' EETimes, Nov 7, 2011 http://www.eetimes.com/electroni ... C-28-nm-tech-demand
(TSMC "has pushed back against claims by market researchers at Gartner Inc that foundries are having problems with yield on 28-nm process technologies")
My comment: The Gartner report said chip makers had problems with 28-nm process, but did not mention TSMC by name.