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1 abela November 2012 delicatesse fie food, travel ad livig Home-made Christmas GIFTS to eat! Cookig up a festive feast this Christmas ART for all Makig a big SPLASH! i the UAE s waterparks Turkey for Christmas? A fairytale Christmas i Viea Festive treats

2 ABELA SUPERMARKETS December 2010 Issue 1 November 2012 i this [witery] issue... GREAT LOCATIONS for coveiet shoppig Our Locatios... a quick word 5 a message from Abela Splash! 6 it s time to scream at three of the UAE s waterparks! Art for all 10 drama ad the arts for kids this witer Witer warmers 12 comfort food that will warm your cockles Hads-o chocolates 14 make your ow gift of chocolates Festive treats 18 tuck ito some idulget chocolate sesatios New i-store 21 a fatastic ew lie up for you to ejoy Turkey for Christmas? 34 idulge i Ottoma luxury at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray Fairytale Christmas i Viea 36 make-believe becomes reality i Viea Competitios 46 wi yourself some early Christmas pressies! (Abela Smart Shopper Card holders oly) ABU DHABI Abela Superstore Al Khalidiya Abela Superstore, Etihad Plaza, Khalifa City A Lavada Express, Souk Qaryat Al Beri, Betwee Two Bridges AL AIN Abela Superstore Al Ai (Near Tawam Hospital ABELA SUPERMARKETS Desiged ad produced for Abela Supermarkets by Phishface Publishig Ltd. - For ad equiries please call: Writte material ad imagery cotaied i this magazie are copyrighted ad the sole property of Abela Supermarkets, Phishface Publishig Ltd. or PHISHFOTOZ ad may ot be reproduced as a whole or i part without express writte permissio from the publisher. Abela Supermarkets

3 ... a quick word Dear readers, Welcome back to, delicatesse, our free i-store magazie to complemet your lifestyle, itroduce ew products, ad hopefully etertai. It s almost that time of year agai. Ad this issue is packed with some great recipes ad ideas to get your festivities off to a good start. Ad if you facy a few days away you wo t fid a better destiatio tha Viea to rekidle some traditioal Christmas memories. With temperatures o their way dow we also look at gettig outside to ejoy some of the best mega waterparks, ad take a look at culture for kids. Check out some of our ew products ad festive specials - ad remember to preset your Smart Shopper Card at ay of our stores whe you shop. Collect poits every time you sped ad redeem them for shoppig vouchers to use i-store. It s simple: shop, ear poits, redeem shoppig rewards! Pick up your istat applicatio pack or ask oe of our staff for more iformatio. Ad do t forget - our fatastic competitios are oly ope to Smart Shopper members - so joi today ad you could be a wier! We would like to hear what you thik of delicatesse magazie, so please drop a to commets@abeladelicatesse.com ad let us kow. All that remais is for us all here at Abela to wish you a very ejoyable festive seaso ad prosperous New Year. See you i 2013! Festively yours David Derrick Retail Geeral Maager Abela Supermarkets 5

4 November 2012 mega make a splash Spoilt for choice here s the low dow o all that s splashigly ew at the UAE s foremost waterparks - grab your togs ad prepare yourself do some screamig! WIN tickets to Wild Wadi, Yas Waterworld ad Wadi Adveture!! o Page 47 The UAE s water parks are a welcome (ad ecessary) respite from the blisterigly hot summer moths, but for me, they are best ejoyed whe I do t have to hop from oe piece of shade to the ext ad whe they are perhaps ot at their absolute burstig poit with queues a mile log! We have more tha our fair share of aquatic attractios i the emirates so how do you choose oe over the other? Price, attractios, locatio, coveiece, family friedly, uiqueess... the list goes o, so we decided to give three of them a test ride... to plop straight ito a rig at the bottom of a ride, be propelled skywards (by oe of eight gravity-defyig Master Blasters) ad the be o your way dow ay umber of slide optios whe you get to the top. That s oe adrealie rush after aother with 13 (of its 30) pulsatig attractios iter-coected, so you ca ejoy them without ever leavig the water. Earlier this year, regulars moured the loss of the heart-stoppig Jumeirah Sceirah, to make way for the ew ride of the same ame - but of a totally ew cocept. Stadig 32m high (makes my kees weak at Wild Wadi - Dubai the thought!), victims, (though Wild Wadi prefer to say guests ) stad i a capsule with a trap door uable to A stalwart of Dubai, Wild Wadi opeed its gates i see what the slide holds below. The trap door is the 1999, ad cotiues to be a major attractio for residets ad tourists to the UAE. suddely released, ad riders desced the 120m slide (a 70 agle drop) at a astoishig speed of over 80 km/h. Desiged aroud a tale from Arabia folklore featurig It really is wet-your-pats stuff! Juha ad his seafarig fried, Sibad, characters marooed o a echated islad, ride gushig Alog with the stadard but relaxig Lazy River ad freshwater streams ad waterfalls. Ad so ca you! the Tuel of Doom, a scary pitch-black slide, are two relatively ew rides called Burj Surj ad Tatrum Alley The huge upside to this park is its coveiece. icorporatig slides, toradoes ad loomig bowls. Sadwiched betwee the Burj al Arab ad Jumeirah Beach Hotel, you ca hardly wat for a quicker escape Both are great fu but Burj Surj terrifyigly so as its to some watery fu. They also have safety dow to a massive bowl opes out threateig to tip the raft fie art, with over 150 lifeguards o duty at ay oe ad it s cotets i.e. YOU, oto Jumeirah Road ad time you ca rest assured someoe s takig care of the ususpectig cars below. 6 you ad your family. Aother plus has to be beig able For surfers there are Wipe-out ad Riptide Flow 7

5 November 2012 Riders offerig realistic wave effects for body or kee boardig as well as surfig. Breaker s Bay, the regio s largest wave pool, ad Juha s Dhow ad Lagoo with iteractive play structure make it ideal for all ages. Wild Wadi still remais a accessible great value-for-moey park for some istat fu - without the drive! YAS WATERWORLD Abu Dhabi The eagerly aticipated Yas Waterworld coverig 15 hectares of lad, promises may thigs - the biggest, the fastest, the first - but is it the fuest? At the time of goig to press the waterpark was yet to ope its gates, however is all set to do so by the ed of Located at the cetre of Yas Islad s etertaimet complex, the park boasts a amazig 43 rides, slides, ad world-record breakig attractios. Payig tribute to the UAE s pearl-divig heritage, it is themed aroud The Lost Pearl, (hece the rather WADI ADVENTURE - Al Ai Wow. I mea, really - i Al Ai? Beige, uassumig historic little Al Ai? Whitewater raftig, kayakig ad surfig? Kow for its extesive atural cave system ad hot water sprigs, Jebel Hafeet has log bee a tourist attractio for the regio but you ow have aother reaso to visit this part of the UAE. About a hour ad a half from either Abu Dhabi or Dubai, Wadi Adveture brigs uique adveture to the emirates i the form of 130,000m 2 of: Three world class whitewater raftig ad kayakig rus with a combied legth of 1,133m. A surf pool capable of makig 3.3m high waves every 90 secods. A rope course, climbig wall ad zip lie. A adult ad toddler swimmig pool, ad what has to be the most uique corporate ad evet space to be foud i the Middle East. AT A GLANCE WILD WADI SIZE: 12 acres No of Attractios: 30 opeed: 1999 Showstopper: Jumeirah Sceirah BIG PLUSES: Coveiet locatio, virtually o stairs to rides PRICE: AED 215 for adults ad AED175 for childre below 1.1m (Aual passes available) Opeig Times: 10am to 7pm i May ad 10am to 8pm util the ed of August strage lookig white globe visible from miles away). Daa, a youg Emirati girl is o a quest for the legedary pearl that had oce brought prosperity to her village. Visitors ca joi her Gushig away at the base of Jebel Hafeet lies a have for outdoor ethusiasts with a taste for adveture where you ca get the ultimate rush as you jump ito a raft ad try to tame AT A GLANCE YAS WATERWORLD adveture to fid the pearl o rides ever see before, icludig the logest ma-made whitewater chaels i the world. Fu for Dawwama the first hydromagetic 6-perso water slide i the world, ad Bubble s Barrel, the largest FlowBarrel 10 Double i the world. (A surf wave for those of us ot i the kow.) High-octae thrill-seekers will love Falco s Falaj - a 62 agle drop slide from almost 21m, or the equally high Liwa Loop, the oly loopig waterslide i the Middle East, featurig a lauch capsule with a trap door givig way to sheer excitemet ad eough speed to have you loop back up ad shoot out ito a catchpool! Be wared, screamig will NOT save you! The PearlMaster, is the world s oly SplashQuest iteractive game iside a waterpark - cosistig of a excitig adveture it allows yougsters to embark o a magical jourey through the everyoe, raftig ca be ejoyed by the etire family ad requires o previous experiece or skill, with all raft trips subject to compulsory (short) briefig ad essetial safety iformatio. After that it s o with the life jacket ad helmet ad ito a bright yellow raft with your Nepalese guide at the helm. Although suitable for everyoe perhaps we should say everyoe those cofidet i water, because there is o doubt whatsoever that you will ed up i the drik at some poit! So, surfig i the desert? Souds surreal, but here you get the perfect wave (up to 3.3m) every 90 secods, which makes learig with pro istructors or practisig, very efficiet. (Bookig is essetial). SIZE: 15 hectares No of Attractios: 43 Opeed: Scheduled December 2012 Showstopper: Badit Bomber BIG PLUSES: World s first ad oly rides, brad ew PRICE: AED 225 for adults ad AED 350 premium (Ucofirmed) Opeig Times: Dec to Feb - 10am to 6pm/Mar to May - 10am to 7pm/Ju to Aug - 10am to 8pm/Sep to Oct - 10am to 7pm (Subject to chage) park goig o a quest i search of lost treasures, iteractig If kayakig is your thig you ca lear how to paddle, spi, with magical sea creatures, firig water caos, solvig aciet puzzles, ad more. tur ad roll with a istructor, or experieced kayakers ca explore three levels of water (Gree, Blue or Black) for a differet AT A GLANCE WADI ADVENTURE Sebag will satisfy the more competitive amog us by givig six challege ad thrill factor. 8 people at ay oe time, the chace to race headlog agaist each other, first i a closed tuel the exitig ito the ope ad the fial straight race to the fiish lie - all agaist the clock! Fially, the Badit Bomber is destied to become a firm favourite (for me ayway!) - equipped with 4-passeger coaches, riders ca spray ad drop water o those below i the desigated drop zoes as the roller coaster zooms by. Yas Waterworld Abu Dhabi say they guaratee everyoe a uforgettable day, whether ejoyig idividual advetures or sharig memorable experieces i the family-sized attractios. I thik we might have to agree! If you are lookig for a uique veue for your ext team buildig evet it might well be the perfect choice. The Wadi Adveture team ca eve desig ad ru the day for you if required. Treat your staff or challege them with some strategy ad physical tasks i a eviromet that seems to be tailor made for the job. Fially, for the ladlubbers, you ca still test your darig o the AirPark adveture course with climbig wall, high ropes, zip lie ad a 14m fallig swig! Face your fears o the aerial walkways or fly across the chaels ad lakes by zip lie, whatever you choose it s boud to be a adveture! SIZE: 130,000m 2 No of Attractios: 5 Opeed: 2011 Showstopper: Surf Pool BIG PLUSES: Uique adveture, great value, team buildig evets PRICE: AED 100* adult AED 50* child (access to the pool, kids splash pool ad the chagig facilities). Plus activity* AED hr Raftig. AED 100 1hr Surf Pool. AED 100 all day pass kayakig. AED 50 all day pass Airpark. AED 40 for 20 mis climbig wall. Opeig Times: 10am to 10pm (Closed Modays - but available for group bookigs or evets) 9

6 November 2012 art for childre this christmas Today Art for All is the leader i brigig you the best i iteratioal theatre. Art for all was established i 2002 i Dubai to fulfil a market eed for expressio through art for the childre of the Emirates. We associate ourselves with oly reputable local ad iteratioal performers, I this way we stage quality plays ad cocerts the are both relevat ad cotemporary. Some of our past productios are Noddy i Toylad, Horrible Histories, Barmy Britai ad The Nut Cracker. O the 13th of December you ca joi Sata, Charlie ad Kara the elves. Muffi the bear, the Sata av cotroller ad a cheeky mokey as they set off to save Christmas. Through sogs, daces ad poems the audiece are take o a 40 miute adveture ever to be forgotte. Each child will get to meet Sata after the show ad receive a special gift. Sata will be waitig at The Emirates Palace. For iformatio cotact Our ext evet is Tchaikovsky s ballet The Sleepig Beauty which tells the story of a beautiful pricess Aurora who is cursed by a evil fairy to sleep for a hudred years util she is awakeed by a hadsome price. The classic tale will be performed i the Emirates Palace auditorium o the 10th of November by the outstadig Moscow City Ballet. The Sleepig beauty is the jewel of the Compay s repertoire ad their choreography, iterpretatio, beauty ad outstadig virtuoso acts have wo them rave reviews. A amazig experiece for the whole family. Tickets are sold through Time Out, Virgi Megastores ad at the Emirates Palace

7 November 2012 Witer warmers take comfort i some flavoursome witer grub Cored Beef Hash with poached egg Potatoes are a very popular food source but ufortuately, may people eat them i the form of oily frech fries or potato chips ad eve baked potatoes which are usually mixed with fats such as cheese, butter, baco bits ad sour cream that make potatoes a potetial cotributor to heart attack. But avoid the deep fried versio ad they become a very healthy low-calorie ad high fibre food that offers sigificat protectio agaist several disease ad keep body healthy. Prepare this super easy bruch dish to ejoy potato at its best - guarateed to become a family favourite. Igrediets [4 potatoes, diced ito cubes, 3 tbsp olive oil, 1 oio, fiely diced, 1 garlic clove, crushed, 340g/12oz cored beef, tied, Salt ad freshly groud black pepper, to taste, 1 tbsp viegar, 1-2 free-rage eggs (per perso), tomato ketchup, to serve] Place the potatoes ito a saucepa ad cover with water. Brig to the boil ad simmer util just teder. Drai ad set aside. Heat a fryig pa util hot. Add oe tablespoo of the olive oil, the oio ad garlic ad fry for two to three miutes. Add the potatoes ad fry for a further miute. Crumble i the cored beef ad mix together. Spoo the mixture ito a soup dish the place uder the grill for three to four miutes, util crusty. Brig a pa of water to the boil, add the viegar ad whirl the water aroud. Crack a egg ito a ladle. Pour the egg ito the pa ad simmer for two miutes, util ready. Remove from the pa ad drai. Remove the hash from the grill ad top with the egg. Top with a squeeze of ketchup ad serve with hot, buttered cor bread if desired. Leek & Potato Soup Leeks might make it ito your meals i small proportios but try usig them as a mai igrediet to beefit from some sigificat utriets. For example, a flavooid called kaempferol provides protectio to the liigs of the blood vessels, particularly agaist free radicals or reactive oxyge species. They also provide a bioactive form of folate called 5-methyltetrahydrofolate. Aside from beig a importat vitami durig pregacy, folate has bee show to lesse the cocetratio of homocysteie i the blood. Note that excessive levels of homocysteie promote iflammatory coditios ad icrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Leek also fuctios as a atioxidat (polypheol), which helps fight agaist free radicals that ca cause may chroic diseases ad agig. Just a 100g portio of fresh leeks cotais about 33 mg gallic acid equivalets (GAE). By icorporatig leeks ito your diet, you ca be sure that you are receivig good amouts of essetial utriets. Try makig this smooth, creamy vegetable soup that s full of flavour - simple, quick ad easy. Igrediets [1 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 oio - sliced, 225g/8oz potatoes - cubed, 2 medium leeks,sliced, 1.2 litres/2 pits vegetable stock, 150ml/5fl oz double cream or crème fraîche, salt ad freshly groud black pepper] Heat the oil i a large pa ad add the oios, potatoes ad leeks. Cook for 3-4 miutes util startig to softe. Add the vegetable stock ad brig to the boil. Seaso well ad simmer util the vegetables are teder. Whizz with a had bleder or i a bleder util smooth. Reheat i a clea pa, stir i the cream or crème fraîche, heat through ad serve. So easy! 12 Pick up your witer vegetables ad fresh produce from Abela! 13

8 November 2012 had-made chocolate Sped a little time ad effort makig someoe special some gorgeous festive chocolates gifts 14 It s easy to go ad buy chocolates, but why ot show someoe how much you care by makig some mouthwaterig treats yourself. Oce they are made you ca decorate or wrap them with as much creativity as you like! Start with the followig ad let your creativity do the rest... Igrediets [75g dark chocolate - 75% cocoa solids, 50g luxury Belgia milk chocolate, 75g luxury Belgia white chocolate, 100g pack whole blached hazeluts, 200g mi-cuit plums, 50g shredded cocout (as log-thread as possible - Pre-heat the ove to 180 C] Begi by toastig the hazeluts o a bakig sheet o the top shelf of the ove for 10 mis, the remove them from the ove ad allow them to cool. Now break up the three chocolates ito small pieces ad melt them separately i heatproof bowls over barely simmerig water, makig sure the bowls do t touch the water. The remove them from the heat ad allow the chocolate to cool. Now, usig a small, sharp kife, carefully remove the stoes from 10 of the mi-cuit plums, leavig them whole. Now, holdig each oe i a horizotal positio, half-dip them legthways i the milk chocolate ad space them out o the lied tray. Next stir the toasted hazeluts ito the plai chocolate ad pile them, i approximately heaped teaspoofuls, ito 10 paper cases. Fially, stir the cocout ito the white chocolate, divide the mixture ito 10, ad use 2 forks to roughly shape each oe ito a ball, the pop ito the paper cases. Now leave all the chocolates i a cool place to set for a hour (or i the fridge if you are i a hurry, i which case they will eed at least 30 miutes). Whe they have set, trasfer the mi-cuit plums to the paper cases. They will keep i a polythee cotaier i the fridge for up to a week. (You will also eed 2 x 12- hole mii-muffi tis, each lied with 10 mii-muffi or sweet paper cases, ad a tray lied with bakig paper), plus 10 mii-muffi or sweet paper cases for the mi-cuit plums.)

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10 November 2012 festive treats for the holiday seaso 18 Chocolate has bee aroud sice aciet times whe the Mayas ad the Aztecs discovered the cacao tree (Theobroma meaig food of the gods ) ad its seeds. Thus chocolate ad its raw igrediets were highly regarded durig aciet times. As a result, cacao seeds were eve used as moey for tradig goods by the Aztecs ad the Spaiards which cotiued o whe Spai domiated the chocolate idustry for a hudred years. Eve though the drik origially created from the cacao seeds was bitter, it was oly accessible to aristocrats ad other royalty. Therefore, it became treasured ad prized ad evetually became special treats at special occasios ad holidays such as Christmas. Whe idustrialisatio took care of gridig ad pressig the cacao seeds, chocolate became more available to the public i the form of chocolate bars ad chocolate driks mixed with milk which evetually led to the popularity of chocolates to be eate plai or used for differet recipes o may special occasios. This was especially true i the 19th cetury whe chocolates were developed ito highly delectable goods ad were i demad especially durig Christmas time. Chocolates were give as treats ad gifts to childre ad loved oes. For example, Quee Ae, i the early 20th cetury, set chocolates to soldiers durig Christmas durig World War I. The traditio cotiued ad spread aroud the world. Keepig this traditio alive, Abela presets a wide rage of festive chocolates from Cadbury, Nestlé, Mars, Kierto, ad Quality Street, for grow ups ad kids alike. Hurry to get yours before they are all goe! 19

11 New i store... take a look at some ew ad excitig additios to our rage Vita Coco Natural Cocout Water Itroducig Vita Coco s a all-atural, super-hydratig, fat-free, cholesterol-free, utriet-packed, potassium-stacked, megaelectrolyte cocout water! It is stacked with potassium, ad is as atural as atural gets (some say it s like puttig a straw i a cocout). Go ahead, get hydrated ad remember that life is a sport, so you do t have to ru a maratho to drik it!. Available i: Natural, Pieapple, Passiofruit 21

12 November 2012 November 2012 Glacéau Vitami Water zero This ew o-calorie versio water queches your thirst without blowig your diet. With o artificial sweeteers, (sweeteed with Truvia ad fructose, a atural fruit sugar). No dodgy E umbers either, these are aturally coloured with fruit ad vegetable juices. Each 8-ouce servig has 100% of the daily value for vitami C, ad at least 40% for a hadful of B vitamis. VitamiWater Zero does t have eough sodium or potassium to be used as a electrolyte-repleishig sports drik but if you wat somethig more excitig tha water this product is a tasty substitute. Available i: Glow, Go-Go, XXX, Drive, Squeezed Milka Daim Bar So you love Milka AND Daim bars... well Milka have combied your favourite thigs ad made oe deliciously milky chocolate bar packed with cruchy almod chips of caramel. (Crrrruch!) Chocolate Toastig Cups Imagie these little dark Belgia chocolate cups at your ext dier party with a little shot of aythig iside (thik: orage, lime, lemo) or fill with cheesecake ad plop a fresh raspberry o top for a istat bite-sized dessert. Or, for the youger crowd, stuff them with peppermit ice cream ad serve to the kids. The possibilities are edless. (Fu-filled cups of heave!) Nestlé Aero Bubbles We would t blame you for ot sharig these tagy orage or fresh mity bubbles i a bag! Perfect for a festive stockig filler or just tearig ope to watch with a movie! (Bite-sized bubbles of featherlight chocolate) MOTT s Applesauce Mott s has bee makig quality apple-based products sice you ll fid a rage of great applesauces that will complemet ay meal - mai course or dessert! Available i: Origial, Ciamo ad Natural Do Erique Pickles What s ew ad hot? Try these pickled pepper varieties served straight from the jar. Both Jalapeos & Yellow Chile Peppers may be used as a garish or to ehace vegetable platters, traditioal ethic meus, pasta ad other spicy dishes. Similar to their fresh couterparts. (HOT! Both i flavour ad popularity) merchat Gourmet Chestut Purée Roasted chestuts are sieved util really smooth - the result is a rich purée that is versatile ad very easy to use. Use it i everythig from stuffigs, soups ad sauces to bakig ad dessert recipes! Cascia Belvedere itegrale Rice I the Farmhouse Belvedere the family Peak is haded dow geeratio to geeratio - the experiece ad the love for the earth, producig the good Italia rice ad the best risottis for the whole family. Traditioal stoe huskig ad a meticulous selectio process esures perfect rice every time. Epicure deli-italia Pasta & Sauces A ame syoymous with quality, Epicure itroduces a rage of delicious deli-style Italia pastas, sauces ad yummy atipasti igrediets. (Quick ad easy to prepare!) Available i: Sudried Tomato with Capers, Artichoke Atipasto ad Tomato & Chilli. Pee Rigate ad Whole wheat Fusilli 22 23

13 TYRELL s Suday Roast Chicke Crisps Tyrell s cook their proper Eglish crisps by had i small batches here o their farm i Herefordshire. They also always leave the jackets o. Well it s oly polite. TYRELL s Veg Crisps Agai, had-cooked i small batches these healthy vegetable crisps will have you comig back from more - carrot, beetroot, parsip.. they re all i there ehace with a touch of sea salt! Tyrell s Nibbles Try Tyrell s rage of fatastic ibbles that iclude spicy coated peauts, chili rice crackers Habas Fritas - lightly spiced broad beas... they are the perfect pre dier ibble ad defiitely a alterative to borig old salted peauts. Tyrell s Proper Popcor There was a time whe popcor was just for the movies. The very idea of muchig it at a party with a glass of white, or at the office with a sarie was othig short of bokers. Thakfully, we ow live i more liberal times. 25

14 November 2012 Clarks 100% Maple Syrup Clarks Pure Maple Syrup is harvested from maple tree farms i the Quebec regio of Caada. Why ot try it drizzled over pacakes or hot desserts, as a dressig for salmo or as a sugar replacemet over breakfast cereal? (Pure uadulterated pleasure) OOMF! Istat Bech Pressed oats Oomf! are passioate about utritio. Their uique recipes cosist of othig but healthy, hearty ad hoest igrediets desiged to maitai your oomf for hours. What s more they are high i protei ad taste great too. Just add water ad off you go. A protei-packed kick-start to your day! So what are you waitig for - pick a flavour ad give it some oomf! (OOoomf!) Available i: Apple, Sultaa & Ciamo, Baaa, Giger Bread Kashi Go Lea Stayig committed to healthy eatig ad exercise is t easy. But GOLEAN cereal is a lightly sweeteed mix of cruchy fibre twigs, crispy soy protei grahams, ad hoey-toasted 7 Whole Grais ad Sesame Puffs makes it easy. You ll feel great kowig that you are treatig yourself right ad ejoyig it. GOLEAN cereal helps you stay satisfied all morig with more tha twice the protei ad fibre of the average of other cereals. Just oe servig supplies 40% of your daily fiber eeds ad 20% of your daily protei eeds. Kashi Berry Blossoms Brighte your morig with Berry Blossoms! Combie whole wheat milled ito a hearty graham flour, with a uique Seve Whole Grais ad other wholesome igrediets. Each square is getly creased at the eds ad baked util toasty ad golde. The they toss the crispy cereal i a real fruit bled made with strawberries, blackberries ad blueberries for a atural, tagy sweet taste you ll love. Kashi Hoey ad Wholegrai puffs Ejoy the pure simplicity of tasty 7 Whole Grai & Sesame bled i toasty flakes, hearty puffs, or cruchy uggets. Kashi Hoey Puffs offers pure ourishmet. They re low i fat with o added oils, sodium, artificial colours, or preservatives. Kashi Hoey Puffs is a sweet begiig to your day. Kashi Heart to Heart Blueberry Clusters A delicious bled of crispy oat flakes ad cruchy oat clusters made with su-sweeteed blueberries, oe of ature s atioxidat fruits. They provide powerful flavour puch i Heart to Heart Oat Flakes & Blueberry Clusters cereal, ad they re good for you, too! Kashi Istat Oatmeal This istat oatmeal is a heart-warmig way to start your day. Available i two delicious flavours: Golde Maple ad Apple Ciamo. It supports healthy cholesterol - 1g soluble fibre from oats, promotes healthy blood pressure ad each servig is high i atioxidat vitamis C ad E. Plus, you ll get 100% daily value of heart healthy vitamis B6, B12 ad folic acid. Kashi Wholegrai flakes These toasty wholegrai flakes are cruchy, wholesome ad ourishig whe ejoyed with a bowl of fresh cold milk. No other cereal could start your day better! 26 27

15 Schär GLUTEN FREE! Life ca ever be sweet eough. Thakfully Schär s extesive assortmet icludes somethig for everyoe, so you ca ejoy those idulget momets without a care i the world. Sweet pastries, biscuits, waffles ad more give you the burst of eergy that you eed! Schär Vailla / chocolate Sadwich Cremes Crispy squares of vailla or chocolate biscuit sadwich a layer of luscious creme fillig! Schär Chocolate O s Glute-free cocoa sadwich cookies with milk cream fillig. Schär vailla / Cocoa wafers O the outside, a fie waffle wafer. Iside, a soft hazelut or vailla creme awaits you. Schär Shortbread cookies The ew, golde-brow breakfast biscuit. Made with the fiest shortbread, hoey ad egg, with o milk. Just like gradma used to make them! Fitess for all day log! Schär Pee / Fusilli / Aellii / spaghetti ad multigrai pei rigate Numerous types of glute-free pasta are developed ad produced so that they remai al dete whe cooked. I additio to the classic spaghetti, Schär also offers lots of other smaller pasta shapes, a rage of delicate pastas suitable for delicious soups ad particularly popular with childre because they are ot too big ad, last but ot least, egg pastas. 28

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18 November 2012 turkey for christmas? idulge i the magificece of the Ottoma empire 34 Lavish ad exquisitely styled Jumeirah Zabeel Saray promises a stay remiiscet of the magificet era of the Ottoma Empire... Located o the west crescet of the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, I m quite uderwhelmed by the hotel exterior ad usure whether the desiger s itet was to have guests likeig their first impressio to that of a rather plaily giftwrapped preset. Oly to tear off the brow paper to reveal the most exquisitely bejewelled gift you ve ever see iside. Twisted golde pillars gleam amog lavishly upholstered chaise logue ad high-backed chairs reachig up to cathedral-high had-paited ceiligs where the gold theme cotiues to swathe the etire lobby. Wow, is this what it s like to be a Aatolia Sulta with utold riches. Rooms are equally opulet ad the impeccable service is typically Jumeirah, (if at times a little over-bearig), efficiet, polite ad kowledgeable. Withi the time it takes to get to our room, we have a complete overview of the hotel ad its facilities alog with locatios ad a ru dow of the restaurats ad their evelop times. Very impressive for a 3 miute trip to the 1st floor. Beig a Palm Jumeirah beachside resort, rooms offer exhilaratig vistas of the Arabia Gulf or Dubai s impressive skylie depedig which side your room faces, so o oe really misses out o havig a room with a view. It s hard to defie what makes the perfect hotel room, but geerally, sleep plays a big part ad as I m devoured by a billowy cloud of pillows I kow the bed has bee particularly well selected ad a lie i will be i order to fully appreciate its comfort. Evetually dislodged from the pillows I foud myself ejoyig a refreshigly good old ice lolly, fruit platter ad iced water by the pool as staff whizzed aroud makig sure everyoe was hydrated, comfortable ad i eed of aythig else. Well, yes actually, would someoe just getly lower me ito the pool ad poit the straw to my mouth occasioally? I say this i jest yet geuiely believe that othig would be too much trouble, but alas, I shall have to put it to the test later as my spa appoitmet awaits. A hamam, is a hamam, is a hamam, right? Wrog. Eter the Talise Ottoma Spa ad a calmig other world where you ca jourey through the ivigoratig Royal Hamam ritual ad the drift away for hours i darkeed recessed louges surroudig a illumiated pool sippig o fresh juices or a platter of figs ad dates. Slip ito the 40 C salt water idoor pool to ease away tesio ad the louge o the heated stoe beds util you are ready for the chilligly cold adveture shower or a stit i the sow cabi to give your circulatio a kickstart! You might just have to ask someoe to carry you back to your room you will be so relaxed - problem is, they might just oblige. Dier was booked at Amara - a restaurat servig orther Idia cuisie focusig o Mughalai curries, tadoori ove dishes ad biryaies with a uique oe price for all cocept. For AED 250 you get to order as may dishes from the a la carte meu as you like, as may times as you like. My recommedatio though is to go for the tastig meu where small dishes of just about everythig are brought out to the table for you to try. Some you will recogise, some you wo t, but that s the beauty - you do t ed up orderig your usual ad you might fid some ew favourites to add to your list. The dishes are fresh ad abudat, so you would be advised to wear clothes with a elasticated waist, however out of fashio, ad go there hugry, it s all too delicious to waste ay. This December, pack up a small bag ad take yourself to Turkey, albeit i Dubai, ad sped a luxuriously decadet ight at the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray. Chill out i the spa, the close your eyes ad poit to oe of the may, may exclusively desiged cocktails i the Voda Bar - they are all good so it really does t matter where your figer lads. The loll by the pool amog the palms or alog the traquil beach. It s a great place to sped this festive seaso - so go o, have a slice of Turkey for Christmas. (Suitable for vegetarias!). 35

19 November 2012 WieTourismus/Mafred Horvath - Christmas market: Spittelberg a fairytale christmas The getle clatter of hooves o cobbles ca be heard every ow ad the, ferryig huddled passegers past festively decorated Plus! We put the Fuji X-E1 through its paces i Viea, ad you ca WIN a Fiepix JZ100 for your Christmas stockig! See Page 48 fid yourself, you will be surrouded by brilliat architecture - a harmoy betwee old ad ew, a cotrast of styles ad viea widow displays overflowig with caskets of sugar plums ad chocolate fir coes - Viea at Christmas time is like beig caught i the scee of a oldy worldy Christmas card. Icy cold ad the air full of frost, your seses will be soothed by wafts of roastig chestuts ad baked apples as your eyes catch materials, uity of form - moder Vieese architecture. The ew Viea Cetral Statio will be oe of the most moder i Europe, cotrasted with St. Stephe s Cathedral with its icoic orately pattered, richly coloured roof, ad roots datig back to It s a place where you ca get out your camera, start the strads of fairy lights suspeded across arrow streets clickig, ad before you kow it, eed to chage out your full- like illumiated cobwebs agaist the dark witer sky. Here you to-burstig 16GB memory card for a ew oe. But more of the ca leave behid the Vegas-style tackiess adopted by may ew Fuji E-X1 later. Rekidle Christmas memories of old, roamig frosty cobbled streets, hads warmed by a freshly baked giger cookie or steamig paper coe of chestuts... a metropolita city ad immerse yourself i a livig, breathig advet caledar momet i time. Viea is a city overflowig with history - from the Reaissace to the idustrial revolutio ad beyod, it does t take much to imagie life i aother age as may of the buildigs remai Apart from beig regarded as the City of Music because of its musical legacy, Austria s capital city of Viea is also said to be The City of Dreams because it was home to the world s first psycho-aalyst - Sigmud Freud. The City s roots lie i early Celtic ad Roma settlemets that trasformed ito a Medieval pretty much the same as they did 100 years ago. The city was ad Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hugaria Empire. It alive back the ad still today, with residets ad tourists millig is well kow for playig a essetial role as a leadig Europea through the arrow streets to their jobs or i search of the ext Music Cetre, from the great age of Vieese Classicism 36 words ad pictures Louise Adamso tourist attractio, of which there are coutless. Wherever you through the early part of the 20th cetury. The Historic cetre of 37

20 WieTourismus / Peter Rigaud Leged: The Rig Boulevard November 2012 Aciet ad moder meet o the streets of Viea the smells of Christmas permeate the witer air Viea is rich i architectural esembles, icludig Baroque castles ad gardes, as well as the late-19th-cetury Rigstrasse lied with icredibly grad buildigs, moumets ad parks. The Eglish ame Viea is borrowed by the Italia ame Viea. Viea ad the official Germa ame Wie, ad the ames of the city i most laguages, are thought to be derived from the Celtic word wido-, meaig bright or fair as i the Irish fio ad the Welsh gwy but opiios vary o the precise origi. Some claim that the ame comes from Veduia, meaig forest stream, which subsequetly became Veia, Wiee ad Wie. Others claim that the ame comes from the Roma settlemet of Celtic ame Vidoboa (Celtic wido-boa ), probably meaig white base/ bottom [lad], which became Vidovia, Víde (Czech) ad Wie. Who kows, but we are ot here o a historic pilgrimage, lovely though all that is, o, we are i Viea for the Christmas markets. Just oe of the thigs that make the city special at this time of year. Dotted aroud the city, they are heavy with the fragrace of freshly cut pie trees ad giger biscuits, so wrap up warm ad take a stroll through a time sice past. The Christmas Markets i Viea truly are a age-old traditio. The foreruers of the preset-day evets date back to the Middle Ages whe i 1298 Albrecht I grated Viea s citizes the privilege of holdig a December Market or Krippemarkt. Sice the, the character ad prevalece of these markets has chaged cosiderably. Nowadays over 20 official Advet Markets sell a vast array of seasoal gifts ad mouth-waterig treats. Some of the market s offerigs ca be a little twee i places, but eve the kitchiest decoratios have their fair share of labour put ito makig them that way. From heart-shaped cookies to glass baubles ad gigerbread houses they all have their place at Christmas ad regardless of their clichéd appearace it just would t be the same without them. You will fid the Friday orgaic market o Freyug, with its jars of local hoey ad home-made sauerkraut ad the - almost hidde behid a mass of spruce trees - oe of the city s several Christ

21 November 2012 Do t leave without tryig a slice of apfelstrüdel kidlmarkts. This is where you come for a taste of some of the city s local delicacies, like sharp shredded cabbage with sleder smoky sausages, twists of bread dough ad slices of spice cake. Hot toast with swathes of molte cheese from the raclette or a paper coe of roasted chestuts - braziers profferig uts plump ad sweet, split skis all the easier to pop ope ad ibble o as you browse. Viea seems to be the home of hot pacakes with fruit compotes, freshly baked cookies ad crisp apple strudel. Yes, ad doorbells ad sleighbells ad schitzel with oodles. It is a place to sit idly watchig the world go by over a geerously whipped-cream-topped coffee with a side of Sachertorte, ad of course lashigs more cream. Bite ito a schitzel the size of a house or tuck ito a hearty plate of boiled beef ad vegetables ladled over ribbos of pacake ad sprig oios. Everythig desiged to warm your cockles from the iside out - ad with a little dustig of sow, Viea, it would seem, is just made for Christmas. It is also a photographer s dream, ad it was time to play with the Fuji X-E1 to see how it performed. The more affordable couterpart to the well-regarded X-Pro1, it is a iterchageable les, mirrorless camera with the same powerful APS-C sesor, sheddig 30% i size ad 21% i weight. I essece a slimmed-dow X-Pro1, with the large, complex ad expesive hybrid fider replaced by a purely-electroic viewfider, ad roughly a 41% price differece (from $1,700 to $1,000). The camera oticeably smaller tha the X-Pro1, retais the same Leica-esque retro ragefider desig - feelig light, yet solid ad sturdy ad for me, drop dead gorgeous. It s also a camera that oddly, people do ot get ervous about beig photographed with. Maybe it s the retro look that gives people the idea I ve icked my gradad s old film camera. I m ot sure, but it certaily does ot have the same effect that my DSLR has - oe of sometimes dowright ager, shyess or itimidatio. No, the X-E1 seems to be welcomed like a old fried, it s really quite perplexig. Feature-wise, the X-E1 is virtually idetical to its bigger (ad more expesive) siblig. It still has a 16MP CMOS sesor, ISO that ca be boosted to 25,600, 1080p HD video recordig, ad RAW files. It gais a lovely little built-i flash, loger battery life, ad a built-i mic jack, but loses some speed (3fps istead of 6) i additio to the hybrid viewfider. You have a vivid 2.8-ich LCD scree o the back ad the top of the camera has t chaged i its layout, except everythig is just a tad smaller. history surrouds you o every corer So, o to performace. We put it to the test with high ISO s, low light ad glarig su, so how did it do? The electroic viewfider lags a little i low-light. The shutter lag has reportedly bee reduced to 0.05 secods, ad the focusig speed to 0.1 secods ad it did ideed seem like the autofocus was sappy ad useable. 40 WieTourismus / Popp & Hacker: Viea from Above: Votive Church 41

22 November 2012 Aciet mok cellars ow fuctio as thrivig udergroud restaurats Fiely sliced pacakes await their boiled beef toppig. Melt i the mouth roasted meats are a staple for Suday luch. WieerSchitzel o every meu. Witer warmig pumpki soup with a spriklig of seeds, fresh herbs ad of course croutos

23 Prater Park is a have for ruers, dogwalkers ad cyclists Testig was doe with 3 iterchageable leses, which persoally I foud quite tedious for such varied shots i ad aroud the city. However, with the kowledge that a ew XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R OIS LM les will soo be available it makes the X-E1 a very solid choice, both specs-wise ad i its desig. For the price, you get a DSLR-sized sesor, ad a piece of kit that suits everyday sapshots as well as more serious photographic assigmets. My oe gripe if I am to be picky with the XE1 ad X-Pro1 is the lack of a decet RAW workflow. If I were to recommed as a pro grade optio, the RAW is a must for shootig. The software is still awkward ad although Adobe s LR 4.1 coverts the files, it does so very poorly. The JPEG s are great (see i this article), but the X-Pro1 is billed as a professioal level camera, ad yet it is extremely difficult to get good RAW output. Christmas MarKets i Viea From mid-november to Christmas, Viea s prettiest squares trasform ito magical Christmas markets. The aroma of baked cookies ad gigerbread fillig the air. Rathausplatz becomes a shiig fairytale lad. The 150 or so sales stads offer Christmas gifts, Christmas tree decoratios, sweets ad warmig driks. The trees of the surroudig City Hall park are festively decorated ad radiate i a sea of lights. Not far away is the Christmas village o Maria-Theresie- Platz, situated betwee the Museum of Fie Arts ad the Natural History Museum. Over 60 stads offerig traditioal hadicrafts ad origial gift ideas are set up here durig Advet. The romatic Christmas village i the Old AKH is also a popular meetig poit durig the ru-up to Christmas, especially for the youger crowd. The Old Vieese Christmas Market o Freyug i the city cetre is committed to traditio. A Christmas market was held here as early as 1772; today, it is a place to buy hadicrafts, glass decoratios, traditioal cribs ad ceramics. Top-quality hadicrafts ca also be purchased a The power of Equipped with a Large APS-C Sesor for the Highest Image Quality Achievemet of Superb High Resolutio, High Sesitivity & Impressive Bokeh Effect. The X-E1 s sesor adopts the same high-performace 16M X-Tras CMOS foud i the X Series flagship X-Pro1 model. AWARD couple of steps further alog at the Am Hof Advet Market. The cultural ad Christmas market i the Ehrehof i frot of Schöbru Palace offers romace i frot of a imperial backdrop, ad is coverted ito a New Year s market after XF60mmF2.4 R Macro Christmas. The Advet market i frot of Belvedere Palace is also held i a imperial ambiece. There s also lots to discover i the idyllic little laes of the Christmas market o XF18mmF2 R XF35mmF1.4 R 44 Spittelberg. X-E1 XF18-55mm XF14mm

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