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1 abela delicatesse fie food, travel ad livig It s a DATE a versatile ad healthy fruit Etihad Plaza Souq Plaet ow ope! summer sizzle take care of your ski Ramada kareem Sprig i Beijig Uique Destiatios Eatig RAW

2 i this [summer] issue a quick word 5 a message from Abela Souq Plaet opes 7 opeig ow at Etihad Plaza The humble date 10 the versatile date palm, from food to shelter Stop the summer sizzle 14 look after your ski this summer RAW 17 should you go raw? Whip up some ice-cream 20 make your ow soft whip or sorbet What s ew i store 23 a lie up of the ew products A uique summer 32 try a more uusual destiatio Sprig i Beijig 34 flowers ad blossoms aboud Ramada 48 a time for respect ad cosideratio Desiged ad produced for Abela Supermarkets by Phishface Creative FZ LLC. To advertise please call: Writte material ad imagery cotaied i this magazie are copyrighted ad the sole property of Abela Supermarkets, Phishface Creative FZ LLC. 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. I this issue we reveal the brad ew Souq Plaet store just opeed i Etihad Plaza, Khalifa City A. We are proud to itroduce smart shoppig to the Middle East - where shoppig is ot just efficiet, but also a pleasure. Feel free to drop i, pick up a complimetary coffee, o us, ad experiece it for yourself - just Sca, Pack & Go! This is our last issue before the summer break, we wish all of our customers Ramada kareem ad Eid Mubarak, ad happy holidays if you are headig off for cooler climes. Do t forget to use your Smart Shopper Card for all your shoppig. The program has ow bee re braded to the Souq Plaet brad - but rest assured, you ear poits i exactly the same way with the same great beefits. Collect poits every time you shop ad redeem them for shoppig vouchers to sped 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. We would like to hear what you thik of delicatesse magazie, so please drop a to commets@abeladelicatesse.com ad let us kow. Self-Scaig Wi-Fi Free Coffee Istat Redemptio Promotios Poits Iformatio Ramada Kareem ad Eid Mubarak David Derrick COO - Retail Operatios Abela Supermarkets & Souq Plaet 5

4 ewsflash souq plaet ow ope at Etihad Plaza a shoppig revolutio has arrived! 7

5 we have chaged the way you shop THE FIRST SELF-SCAN SUPERMARKET - NOW OPEN IN ABU DHABI, KHALIFA CITY A The ew self-sca techology allows customers to shop usig dedicated i-store scaig devices or alteratively usig their smartphoes after dowloadig Souq Plaet s self-sca app available o Itues ad Google Play 8 Abu Dhabi shoppers are ivited to experiece self-sca techology i Souq Plaet, the first Supermarket to offer this service ot oly i the UAE but whole of the Middle East. After its lauch i Madiat Zayed, Wester Regio, Souq Plaet has ow opeed at Etihad Plaza i Khalifa City A. The other braches i Khalidiya ad Al Ai will be ext to follow i implemetig this uique ad iovative shoppig experiece. The ew self-sca techology allows customers to shop usig dedicated i-store scaig devices or alteratively usig their smartphoes after dowloadig Souq Plaet s self-sca app available o Itues ad Google Play. Iovative shoppig experiece will allow customers to ejoy a faster checkout, avoidig cashiers queues ad will give them access to all the system s beefits icludig keepig track of purchases, gettig product iformatio ad creatig shoppig lists. The Supermarket has udergoe a major coversio ad we hope you ejoy the experiece as much as we have ejoyed deliverig this uique cocept. The store Maager, Mr. Deis Jackso ad his staff would be delighted to welcome you i the ear future. The Souq Plaet project is owed by UAE-based NCC Group of Compaies ad is developed by a ewly established compay withi NCC Group, Busiess DNA, together with parters Motorola, Re-Visio, Sage ad Wicor Nixdorft. 9

6 the humble date so versatile, so icoic, so delicious Dates have bee a staple food of the Middle East ad Idus Valley for thousads of years. Cultivated sice aroud 6000 B.C, the date fruit is oe of the sweetest aroud ad also happes to come i may differet varieties. They ca be eate fresh, or dried ad boast health beefits a plety. Dates are believed to have origiated i ad aroud Iraq, ad have oval to cylidrical i shape, 3 7 cms log, ad 2 3 cms diameter, bee cultivated sice aciet times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric ad ripe dates rage from golde-yellow, amber, bright-red to Egypt, possibly as early as 4000 BCE. The Aciet Egyptias deep-brow depedig o the cultivar type ad all have differet used the fruits to make date wie, ad ate them at harvest. There flavours ad textures. is archaeological evidece of date cultivatio i easter Arabia i There are may varieties of date palm cultivated. Amir Hajj, Saidy, 6000 BCE. There is also archeological evidece of date cultivatio Khadrawy ad Medjool are some of the importat varieties i Mehrgarh aroud 7000 BCE, a Neolithic civilizatio i what is popular for their rich taste, flavour, ad superior quality. ow wester Pakista. Evidece of cultivatio is cotiually foud SERVING throughout later civilizatios i the Idus Valley, icludig the Dry ad soft dates are usually eate out-of-had ad they ca be Harappa period 2600 to 1900 BCE. stuffed with filligs such as almods, waluts, cadied orage ad I later times, traders spread dates aroud South West Asia, cream cheese. They ca also be chopped ad added to fruit salad orther Africa, ad Spai, ad were itroduced ito Mexico ad ad i a rage of sweet ad savoury dishes. Dates are also beig Califoria by the Spaiards i 1765, aroud Missio Sa Igacio. used to prepare juice ad Jallab (a type of syrup popular i the A date palm cultivar, kow as Judea date palm is reowed for Middle East - made from dates, grape molasses, ad rose water). its log-lived orthodox seed, which successfully sprouted after High quality dates are geerally hadpicked directly from the accidetal storage for 2000 years. This particular seed is presetly fruit-buch ad sold as premium variety i the markets. O a reputed to be the oldest viable seed but the upper survival time limit commercial scale, most are harvested by cuttig the etire cluster, of properly stored seeds remais ukow. fumigated, cleaed, graded, packed, stored uder refrigeratio, For thousads of years the date palm tree has provided shelter for ad released to markets accordig to demad. the ihabitats of desert eviromets kow to locals i some STAGES regios as Arish. Fossil records show that the date palm has Uripe, gree dates are said by the Arabs to be i the kimri stage. existed for at least a astoudig 50 millio years. Whe they ripe ad tur their distictive colour (yellow, red, black Botaically; the fruits that grow o the palm tree belog to the family or pik), dates are said to be i the khalal stage. Dates i this stage of Arecaceae, i the geus: Phoeix, ad scietifically amed as are full-size ad sweet, but mostly are still too astriget to my taste Phoeix dactylifera. The fruit is kow as a drupe, i which its ad do t make good eatig for me persoally. I the Middle East, outer fleshy part (exocarp ad mesocarp) surrouds a shell (the however, they re commoly sold this way. 10 pit or stoe) of hardeed edocarp with a seed iside. The fruit is If you let them sit ad mature for a while - sometimes a week or 11

7 March 2015 Issue 23 The sap of leaves is a remedy for ervousess, kidey trouble ad putrid wouds ad calms the effervescece of the blood more - they mature ito the rutab stage whe they tur colour to light brow ad become soft, moist ad very delicious with a subtle caramel flavour. This stage is my favourite. Regular dates, fially, are said to be i the tamar stage, whe they re dark brow, fully cured ad more blistered i appearace. VERSATILITY Be it, that the date palm historically has bee so closely iterkit i the farmer s life ad eviromet, or that the Tree of Life with its sigle head ad truk ad divisio ito male ad female sexes with a correspodig reproductive system, was felt to resemble that of humas, the fact has traspired that the date palm has always had a aura of mystique aroud it, which at times developed ito a palm cult. I Assyria times, for istace, the palm was worshipped ad depicted frequetly i decorative art ad for the embellishmet has bee witessed i differet times ad places ad, perhaps less proouced, skill persists to date i the traditioal date producig coutries. Medically, dates were oce recommeded i mouth washes (a applicatio most likely frowed upo by a preset-day detist. Dates formed part of various oitmets, badages ad opthalmic prescriptios ad Pliius reports: dates are applied with quices, wax ad saffra to the stomach, bladder, belly ad itesties. They heal bruises. A otable Sheikh i the 16th Cetury elaborates: dates fortify the body, erich the blood, cure pais i the back ad whe boiled with milk they cut short fever ad ague. Ad from the same source: the sap of leaves is a remedy for ervousess, kidey trouble ad putrid wouds ad calms the effervescece of the blood. Burt seeds are made i a oitmet for ulcers or a collyrium that produce log eyelashes. Through the ceturies the use of palm products i the date producig areas was diffused i all sectors of the ecoomy from agriculture, trasport ad costructio, to domestic use ad reachig out also ito the urba cetres. O occasio the productio of these palm products equalled or became more importat tha the date crop itself. The truk or stem becomes available upo atural or accidetal death of the palm or by forced removal. The soft growig poit or termial bud, sweet i taste, ca be cosumed either raw as a salad or as a cooked vegetable somewhat resemblig artichoke hearts though this varies with the palm variety. I time of food scarcity the iside of the truk has bee pulverized ad tured ito a coarse flour for huma cosumptio. But the truk s mai use is for its wood, which itrisically is ot of high quality because of the coarse vascular budles (moocotolydo) but it has great tesile stregth. Its use is therefore geared to exploit this characteristic such as for poles, beams, rafters, litels, girders, pillars, jetties ad light foot bridges. For this purpose they ca be used whole or split i half or quarters. Hollowed out half truks are used as coduits for water, or at shorter legths for magers ad troughs. Saw ito coarse plaks they are made up ito doors, shutters ad staircases for houses. Rustic furiture has also bee made though trukwood, however, because of its coarse vascular structure, is difficult to cut, fiish ad polish. Ad fially, the truks are also used as firewood. Every year uder ormal growth coditios a average of 12 to 15 ew leaves are formed by the palm ad cosequetly the same amout ca be expected to be cut as part of the maiteace of the palm. Take over hudreds or thousads of trees this ca lead to large umbers of leaves becomig available aually. Leaves offer the most varied ed use opportuities - whole leaves are used i fecig by stickig them ito the groud ad holdig them together with two or three layers of rope made of the leaflets, or i partitioig i houses ad eclosures of terraces providig privacy but keepig a certai vetilatio. Leaves are further used as roofig to give shade or for ewly plated offshoots. Where mud is used i house costructio whole date leaves may be laid across the ceilig beams (made of the truk) i a thick beddig upo which a layer of mud is poured to form the first floor or roof cover. Leaf bases sharpeed at the thi ed ad hammered i a close pack have bee used to lie the walls of ope wells whe the usual brick or stoe are ot available. They were used by fisherme to float their ets ad by the same priciple helped childre to lear to swim. The base ca be split ad beate out with the resultig fibre mass beig used as a had broom. Ad, like other fibrous parts of the palm, leaf bases are particularly suited as a fuel. The most widespread use of the midrib is makig crates, but also furiture. There is a great variatio i size ad type of the cotaiers, adapted to the specific purpose, but the priciples of costructio are basically the same. Startig from basic operatios ad with icreasig artisaal skills a wide variety of cotaiers has emerged, from simple fruit crates, birdcages ad chicke coops to double deck twi cages, sometimes with slidig doors, hug o a dokey s, or a camel s back to carry a wide variety of fowl ad other produce to the market. NUTRITIONAL VALUE If you re lookig for fibre, potassium, or copper, look o further tha dates. While dates are rich i may vital utriets ad therefore offer may health beefits, the fruit is so small that you ll eed to cosume a larger quatity to itake the ecessary amout. The followig utritioal data outlies some of the key utriets foud i dates, ad is based o a 100g servig of the fruit. Next time you eed to sweete a recipe, make your ow eergy bars, or mask the gree flavour i your smoothies, look o further tha the humble date. Their lovely flavour ad beeficial qualities brig sweetess to ay food. Sure, they are t sugar-free, but they wo t hurt your efforts to reduce your sugar. What you really wat to do is reduce artificial ad refied sugars from your diet, ot the beautiful, atural sugars i whole dates Fibre Potassium Copper 6.7 grams. 27% RDA. 696 milligrams. 20% RDA. 0.4 milligrams. 18% RDA. Magaese 0.3 milligrams. 15% RDA. Magesium 54 milligrams. 14% RDA. Vitami B6 0.2 milligrams. 12% RDA. Note: Dates are high i sugar cotet comig i at a whoppig 66.5 grams per 100 gram servig of the fruit. It is recommeded to lesse sugar cosumptio as much as possible, eve whe the sugar is beig cosumed from fruit.

8 Suscree is ot limited to the poolside or beach it should be applied o a daily basis, so choose moisturisers ad body lotios with SPF if possible. Uderstadig the Dagers of Overexposure ad while itetioal overexposure (taig, subathig) Su exposure is t ecessarily bad it is a key source of Vitami D. As with all good thigs, however, keep exposure is icredibly harmful, two-thirds of all su damage is, surprisigly, icidetal (walkig the dog, drivig). i moderatio. The ideal maximum is 15 miutes before 10am Thus said, suscree is ot limited to the poolside or beach or after 2pm. Aythig over is cosidered overexposure, ad it should be applied o a daily basis. Choose moisturisers ay exposure durig midday whe the su is at its harshest ad body lotios with SPF, ad if possible, always choose a should be limited (if ot altogether avoided). Su rays at higher SPF for your face. Do t forget your hads especially this time of day are 10% UVB ad 90% UVA: a combiatio whe drivig. Hads are a istat giveaway to your true that ca cause melaoma, the deadliest form of ski cacer. age, so ivest i a had cream that offers SPF protectio. UVA vs. UVB Rays: What s the differece? O average, most people have already bee exposed to large amouts of UVA rays throughout their lifetimes. Though Ad it s ot just for wome, the su s rays are idiscrimiate ad everyoe should apply SPF regularly. Summer Ski Tips less itese tha UVB rays, UVA rays are times more Dress to protect. Lightweight, cotto cover-ups alog with a prevalet ad are preset durig all hours of daylight eve cap or broad-brimmed hat will act as shields from UV rays. stop the sizzle o the cloudiest of days makig it ecessary to icorporate SPF protectio ito your everyday routie. Wrikles ad suspots are largely caused by these rays. Able to peetrate glass ad deep ito the ski, these rays speed Apply suscree religiously. Always apply suscree 20 miutes prior to allow time for the product to absorb ito the ski; re-apply every few hours or as eeded. Look for suscrees that offer protectio for both UVA ad UVB rays up the agig process ad cotribute to if ot iitiate the keep i mid that a high SPF umber is o loger eough. developmet of ski cacers below the surface. Do t skimp o eye creams ad lip protectio. Su exposure ski care for summer UVB rays cause su burs ad reddeig. While UVA rays peetrate beyod the superficial layers, UVB rays damage will gradually thi ski ad cause wrikles. Protect the delicate areas of your face with appropriate creams ad the ski s surface layers. Its itesity differs by time of balms. Apply ad liberally re-apply a lip balm with SPF It s almost time for summer holidays ad for most, that meas shorts, sadals, bathig suits, ad lots of sushie. But beware, this time outdoors although healthy, uprotected ski ca lead to cacer. Su exposure is, essetially, subjectig yourself to su damage. Prevetative measures i preparig ad carig for it are crucial i keepig your ski i tip-top coditio for ow ad may years to come. day, locale, forecast, ad seaso, but still holds potetial i causig su damage. These are the rays resposible for chage i darkess of ski pigmetatio, age spots, ad the more commo tumors that may ultimately evolve ito cacer. Su Damage ad Agig Sigs associated with agig - wrikles, freckles, ski thiig, sage spots, ueve pigmetatio are the aftermath of su damage. Niety-percet of wrikles are caused by the su, Also, with summer comes ope-toed shoes ad sadals. Take ito accout that suscree will rub off faster from rubbig agaist the straps of your shoes ad abrasive sad. Re-apply more frequetly to prevet burt feet. Keep hydrated. Drik water throughout the day. If you re o the go, try brigig a bottle ad a cotaier of fresh fruit o the go to prevet dehydratio ad heat stroke. 15

9 eatig raw delicious ad diverse? Raw food cosists of (usually plat) food that is ucooked ad uprocessed, such food ofte termed live or livig. The raw food diet is based o the belief that a high-ezyme diet will esure optimal health. 17

10 to cook or ot to cook could eatig raw be better for you? Ezymes help us to digest food; raw food cotais ezymes mierals are destroyed, or altered, rederig them useless ad breakig dow. Our stomachs are ot like vegetaria aimals If we are uable to digest our foods, there s a good chace that already to assist this process. Whe we cook food, the aturally also uable to assist our frieds the vitamis. such as cows. May of these aimals have extra stomachs to we re ot absorbig may of the utriets i the foods we eat. occurrig ezymes are destroyed by heat (over 48ºC), ad our Phytoutriets help break dow ad digest the tough plats ad grasses they A lot of the utriets i vegetables are stored i its tough fibres. ow bodies eed to produce the ezymes to digest the food. It is These are what give fruits ad vegetables their colour. Phytos eat. Humas, ufortuately, do t have these extra stomachs to Uless we break dow these vegetable fibres, our bodies will thought that this places too much pressure o our bodies, havig to protect the body ad fight disease. They also fight cacer ad help break dow all the fibrous cellulose cotaied i plats which ot be able to use these utriets. Cookig with low to medium both maufacture the ezymes eeded, ad digest the food at the your heart. Phytoutriets are at the leadig edge of research o makes it especially difficult to digest vegetable fibres. Whe heat is usually eough to help break dow or predigest these same time. Cookig is also thought to dimiish the utritioal value utritio. They provide medicie for cell health. Ad oce agai, we re costatly eatig foods that our bodies caot digest, our fibres so that we ca access the mierals ad utriets. The ad life force of food. Other reasos for why people follow a raw i freshly harvested plat foods ca be destroyed or removed by ability to digest foods i geeral is weakeed. This ca cause occasioal salad here ad there probably wo t do much harm food diet vary ad ca iclude losig weight, ati-agig properties, cookig. bloatig, idigestio, costipatio or loose stools, weight gai, but if you re eatig raw foods o a daily basis, you might wat health beefits, physical performace beefits, ad for a growig Why Eat Raw? malutritio, food allergies ad a lowered immue system. Our to take a look at whether they could be cotributig to ay umber of people, as a way of fittig i with a gree lifestyle. May It just starts to make sese. If cookig destroys the vital ad digestive system is a key elemet to good health, so it s importat health issues you might be havig. raw food diet followers are vega owig to a persoal belief that essetial utriets that we eed to stay healthy, eatig our food to esure it is healthy ad fuctioig properly. Happy eatig! cosumptio of aimals is uethical ad uhealthy. A raw food diet raw does the opposite. It provides us with what we eed for our ca be icredibly delicious ad diverse ad provided that you do health ad well beig. There are o the other had some pretty adequate research, it ca be well-balaced i utriets. covicig argumets as to why as humas we should ot be o Vitamis a raw food diet. Without vitamis our cells would ot fuctio properly ad thus The other side of the argumet our orgas would suffer ad evetually we would o loger be May vegetables i the cruciferous family such as kale, broccoli, able to survive. They help regulate metabolism, help covert fat cauliflower, cabbage, mustard grees ad brussel sprouts cotai ad carbohydrates ito eergy, ad assist i formig boe ad what are kow as goitroges. Goitroges are aturally occurrig tissue. Some experts estimate that the overall utriet destructio compouds i some foods that may block thyroid fuctio ad ca by cookig food is as high as 80%. Tests have show that we will evetually lead to goiter ad hypothyroidism. For people with a lose 50% of the B vitamis while B1 ad B12 ca lose up already weakeed thyroid fuctio, or for those who have to 96%. 97% of folic acid is destroyed as well a propesity to thyroid disorders, goitroges as 70-80% of vitami C. ca worse the ability of your thyroid Mierals to produce importat hormoes. Sevetee of the thirty elemets Goitroges ca be deactivated kow to be essetial to by heat. So, cookig your life are metals. Mieral vegetables ca deactivate a deficiecies cause disease good amout of goitroges. i humas. Mierals Raw vegetables also ted to also have a syergistic be hard o your digestio. relatioship with vitamis. Plats ad vegetables They help each other have cellulose ad other 18 help us. Whe foods are cooked, may of the fibrous structures that our stomachs have a hard time 19

11 whip up some ice-cream or a fruity delicious zigy summery sorbet 20 Delicatesse Who does t love ice-cream. Especially whe the temperatures recommeds! are soarig ad the oly thig to cool you dow is a sorbet or CREAM-BASED ICE-CREAM a creamy Mr Whippy! Igrediets: [2 cups heavy cream, 1 cup whole milk, 2/3 ORIGINS are kow to reach back as far as the secod cup sugar, 1 tsp vailla extract. Optioal: Add 1/2 cup cetury B.C., although o specific date of origi or ivetor cocoa powder for chocolate ice cream] has bee idisputably credited with its discovery. We kow Method: It s easy to make a wide variety of ice cream that Alexader the Great ejoyed sow ad ice flavoured flavours by startig with a good vailla ice cream base. with hoey ad ectar. Biblical refereces also show that Cream-based ice cream is a bit icier ad lighter tha Kig Solomo was fod of iced driks durig harvestig. custard-based ice cream. This recipe will make oe quart Durig the Roma Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54- of ice cream, so double it if you wat more. Mix up the 86) frequetly set ruers ito the moutais for sow, followig igrediets i a saucepa. Heat util the sugar which was the flavoured with fruits ad juices. dissolves. Place the saucepa over medium high heat Over a thousad years later, Marco Polo retured to Italy ad heat the mixture, stirrig costatly, util the sugar from the Far East with a recipe that closely resembled what completely dissolves. Chill the is ow called sherbet. Historias estimate that this recipe mixture i the refrigerator. Pour evolved ito ice cream sometime i the 16th cetury with the cream base ito a bowl, Eglad discoverig it at the same time, or perhaps eve cover it, ad place it i the earlier tha the Italias. refrigerator to cool dow for SORBET Fruit + Sugar = Sorbet. The word sorbet is a hour or two. Freeze the ice derived from the Arab word Sharab (drik). Folklore holds cream i a ice cream maker. that Roma Emperor, Nero, iveted sorbet durig the first Pour the chilled base ito your cetury AD whe he had ruers pass buckets of sow had ice cream maker ad freeze over had from the moutais to his baquet hall where it accordig to the maufacturer s was the mixed with hoey ad wie. Much easier these istructios. Depedig o what type of ice cream maker days, sorbets are a simple combiatio of fresh fruit or fruit you have, the freezig process might take oe or more juice with sugar. That s it! About 2 pouds of fruit will be hours. Add mix-is. Whe the ice cream is partially froze, perfect for makig a quart of sorbet that comes out to add your favourite mix-is to flavour your ice cream. A about 5 cups of chopped fruit. A little more or less is fie; this vailla base tastes woderful with just about ay type of is a basic formula, ot a exact sciece. Puree this fruit ad fruit, cady or ut. Add a cup of your favourite. Fiish add a little sugar, ad that s your sorbet base. freezig the ice cream. Tur the ice cream maker back The easiest way to add sugar is to make a simple sugar o to fiish the freezig process, the put the ice cream syrup. Simmer equal parts sugar ad water util the sugar i the freezer for about 3 hours to firm it up. Ejoy your is dissolved ad let it cool. Most summer fruits are sweet ice cream oce it s froze solid ad creamy. eough o their ow that we barely eed to add ay sugar. Remember, though, that freezig dulls sweet flavours, so we wat the base to taste slightly too sweet before we freeze. 21

12 New i store... take a look at some ew ad excitig additios to our rage Nadiya Luxury Dates with Nuts Nadiya, a Dubai based compay, specialise i deliverig high quality ad uique presetatio gift boxes that reflect local heritage ad the traditios of Arabia hospitality. Nadiya selects oly the fiest quality Arabia dates for their specially created gift boxes workig with may of the farms cosidered to be the world s fiest producers of dates i terms of taste, colour ad size. Liwa premium Dates A special time of year deserves a special kid of date - Liwa dates. This rage of Khudri, Sellaj Mabroom, ad Sagai premium dates are packaged ready to ejoy whe breakig your fast or just as a extra special treat. (Ramada Kareem) 23

13 MRS CRIMBLE S SNACKS ad cakes The Mrs. Crimble s brad has bee aroud loger tha you might have realised - lauched i 1979 ad sold direct to stores i the Lodo area. More recetly the compay has become kow for its rage of cakes, biscuits, sacks ad treats which are ow deliciously Glute Free. The award-wiig Cheese Bites are great tastig sacks. All the borig old wheat flour is replaced with real cheese (which makes up a whoppig 48% of the igrediets) ad they are baked rather tha fried. They are a great example of glute-free products beig a improvemet - ot a compromise. They eve wo the 2009 Free From Award for the best tastig Savoury Sack ad Biscuit. Cor Cakes provide the tasty alterative to rice cakes ad crispbreads. Great for sackers ad «dieters» alike with their full flavour ad low fat cotet. We love cheese ad we love crackers! Crispy, cruchy, baked ot fried ad so deliciously glute-free. Go o ad share the love with these Hot Chilli Cheese Crackers. Bakewell Slices are made from a classic recipe ad deliciously glute-free. Toasted almods, light moist spoge, fruity jam ad a pastry base, baked with love the Mrs. Crimble s way. So go o ad share the love. Likewise, the Double Chocolate Browies ad Coutry Fruit Slices. Baked with love - ad it tastes like it! Mrs Crimble s chocolate coated rice cakes are super delicious. Made from puffed rice, they are baked ad ot fried the coated with delicious chocolate toppig. MRS CRIMBLE S Home Bake PaStry Mix This home bake mix provides the perfect opportuity to add your ow touch to create delicious glute-free food so go o ad bake with love Total Sweet Xylitol Completely atural Xylitol (sugar free), this low carb, low GI sugar alterative brigs may health beefits, makig it perfect for dieters, diabetics, childre, ad ayoe cocered about oral health ad geeral well beig. Tiaa Cocout Bakig Flour The ideal choice if you have sesitivity to glute or wheat, you are o a glute-free diet or wheat free diet. Also suitable for lowcarb, high fibre, low glycemic or raw diets. It is 100% pure defatted raw ad is ideal for all of your bakig ad cookig eeds. Bioa cocout Flour ad creamed cocout Made from the fiest selected orgaic cocouts, a healthy alterative to wheat ad other grai flours. Ideal for both sweet ad savoury bakig. Nay Care Goat Milk Powder Follow o milk - A goat milk based formula desiged to complemet the weaig diet from 6 moths. It helps to provide key utriets. Rich source of Vitami D, Vitamis A & C (for a ormal developmet of the immue system), Iro, Calcium ad Vitami D. Growig up milk - A fortified goat milk drik, suitable from 12 moths owards. Both should be used as part of a ormal, varied ad healthy diet

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17 Make this year s summer getaway a real departure from the traditioal su, sea ad sad Swim with sea gypsies i Myamar The Mergui archipelago, i the far south of Myamar, is home to a uique ethic group called the Moke who live a semi-aquatic life aboard had-built boats where they survive by spear ad et fishig ad foragig. The Moke sped so much time divig i search of shellfish that their eyes have adapted to uderwater coditios, givig them water visio. Visitors ca stay o oe of the may Moke islads ad meet the friedly ad welcomig Moke people. While there, you ca visit their villages, ret boats, sea kayak, scuba dive or simply swim with the sea gypsies. 32 a uique summer holiday From sleepig i a omadic tet, to trampig the pristie Mercatour Alps there are so may more optios for a summer break. Try oe of these uique getaways ad you ever kow, you might just like it! Go for a family walk with a dokey i Frace For a family holiday to remember, discover the spectacular Mercatour Alps i the South of Frace with your very ow dokey. Travellig with the affectioate aimals is the perfect way to make the uexplored hidde moutais accessible to families, plus the kids will love havig their ew fried alog for the ride. Sped a fortight with ovice Buddhist moks i Laos I the beautiful aciet city of Luage Prabag, orther cetral Laos, you ca teach Eglish to youg Buddhist moks o a voluteerig holiday. GVI s Voluteer with Buddhist Novice Moks i Laos trip takes place i a idyllic settig at the meetig of the Nam Kha ad Mekog rivers, reowed for its Buddhist temples ad moasteries. As well as workig closely with ovice moks, you ll lear about Lao culture, history ad food, visit the local sights ad ejoy a weeked o the baks of the Mekog River. Catch sakes with tribesme i Idia Stay at Vivata by Taj Fisherma s Cove, built o a old Dutch fort overlookig the Bay of Begal i Cheai, ad you ca take part i the uique experiece of sake catchig. You ll accompay Irula tribesme, who are specialists i sake catchig, ito the forests for a close ad isightful ecouter with sakes. Poiso will be deftly collected from the sakes for medicial use, after which the uharmed creatures are set free. Trai like warrior Geghis Kha i Mogolia For the ultimate adveture, head for Mogolia ad you ll be show what it was really like to be a warrior uder the Great Kha. Dressed i full costume ad stayig i omadic tets, you ll sped days traiig i 13th-cetury battle skills ad discover the reasos that gave the warriors such power. You will lear bow ad arrow makig, field cookig, how to shoot from horseback ad the art of lightig campfires quickly so as to cofuse the eemy at ight. 33

18 sprig i beijig words ad pictures Louise Adamso Beijig has to be the epitome of the phrase, so much to see, so little time. Especially as the city is a sprawlig mass, with a growig traffic problem. Gettig aywhere o a weekday takes forever ad a day, so you are best advised to pla your surely beyod the idustrial cloud permaetly i residece over the capital, sprig brigs with it a much-eeded ijectio of colour as well as some woderful floral aromas. Magolia, cherry, apricot ad pear blossoms, ad waftig as you stroll itierary with military precisio. Some areas like the Great alog a ope sewer, the getle scets of lilac permeatig Wall are a good couple of hours drive which if you wat to the air. Surely a geius idea by some switched-o ladscape The very best time of the year to witess the burst of sprig as it brightes up a grim, grey, city. iclude it i your itierary, will take most part of the day if you are to explore it properly. But more of The Wall later. The outskirts are barre ad grim. The city, is grey ad grim. architect, as it maages to mask the sewer s ugly cocrete mass ad the stomach-churig smells that go with it. Beijig, the capital of the People s Republic of Chia, is oe 34 However. As much as the pollutio blocks the blue sky that is of the most populous cities i the world - secod oly after 35

19 36 Traditioally prepared ad cooked Pekig Duck Shaghai as Chia s largest city. It claims to be the 3rd largest i the world - its city limits seemigly havig o visible limit! The populatio as of 2013 was 20,150,000 - ad it shows. Bicycles have log bee replaced by cars with wide roads to accommodate them, ad as it cotiues to mushroom, it s hard to eve begi to imagie what it might be like i a few year s time. The city spreads out i cocetric rig roads. The Secod Rig Road traces the old city walls ad the Sixth Rig Road coects satellite tows i the surroudig suburbs ad they are just heavig with cars, bikes, ti boxes o wheels, all headig i or out of the city cetre be it day or ight. You would be wise to factor this stuted travellig time ito your schedule if you are short of time - ad choose your sights carefully. The city s history dates back three milleia ad is complex to say the least. As the last of the Four Great Aciet Capitals of Chia, Beijig has bee the political cetre of the coutry for much of the past eight ceturies. The city is reowed for its opulet palaces, temples, parks ad gardes, tombs, walls ad gates, ad its art treasures ad uiversities have made it a cetre of culture ad art i Chia. But perhaps oe of the most surprisig areas of the city is District 798, Beijig s aswer to New York s SoHo or Brookly. A burgeoig art district housed i a former muitios factory, it became a lively hub for artists circa 2000, before more recetly becomig a getrified versio of itself. Like its New York couterparts, with icreasig popularity ad ret prices, youger artists have sice relocated to the outer reaches of the city, leavig behid scores of galleries ad museums, boutique shops, popular cafés ad slick bars. The artists that remai work closely with local establishmets like the Opposite House, addig to the hotel s distictive art-gallery aesthetic. What s eve more surprisig tha the district itself is the art iside. Keepig i mid this is a city where Facebook ad Twitter are baed, where you eed to wi a lottery for the right to buy a car, ad where govermet officials have i the past arrived at artist studios to moitor what was beig expressed, the artwork here is surprisigly avat-garde ad well worth a visit. Boastig a massive seve UNESCO World Heritage Sites the Forbidde City, Temple of Heave, Summer Palace, Mig Tombs, Zhoukoudia, Great Wall, ad the Grad Caal, there is o shortage of thigs to see - but what you might be short of, is time to see them all. The rest of Chia all seem to wat to see them too, so you are ever without a accompayig crowd. Ad be prepared to stad out - as a westerer you are i the miority here stadig out like a sore thumb. People say that the real culture of Beijig is the culture of the Hutog ad Courtyards. How true that is. Ad choosig to stay i 37

20 38 a small boutique hotel for my 3 days was a real fid. At the ed A youg food market chef teds to his roastig birds of my street, the wicker steamers o the alleyway breakfast stalls are brimmig with baozi, hot bus full of meat or red-bea paste. Or there s warm flatbread with sprig oios. Ad fresh peaches ad lychees at the greegrocer s ext door. Approach the city from the wrog agle, though - the airport expressway o a raiy summer day, for istace - ad it ca seem hellish. Hutog is a Mogolia word meaig water well. At 9m wide, it is the ame give to a lae or small street that origiated durig the Yua Dyasty ( ). Now they have become represetatives of local culture. I the Yua Dyasty, Mogolias attached great importace to water, so almost every commuity i the city was desiged aroud a well, which provided the daily water for the locals. I the past, Beijig was composed of hudreds of courtyards aroud the Forbidde City, ad these laes stretched out i all four directios, coectig the differet kids of courtyards i the city. Although origially formed i the Yua Dyasty, the buildig of the these developed fast durig the Mig ad Qig dyasties. It is said that by 1949 there were as may as 3,250. But with the passage of time, ad the requiremet for city costructio, the umber of them has falle dramatically ad ow o more tha 1,000 remai. The laes have their ow layout ad structure, ad whe viewed from the air the combiatio of the laes ad courtyards resemble a chessboard with delicate gardes, fie rockeries ad aciet ruis. Eterig ay of the laes, oe ca feel the deep ad warm relatioships amog people, which is rarely foud i this moder ad bustlig city. I the twisted laes oe ca experiece the life of the aciet Beijig people. The bathrooms ad public toilets ca be foud i these laes. Shops sell all kids of goods that satisfy the local people s daily eeds. It is just like a commuity. Gossipig i these laes is a commo scee as it is the mai way for people to stregthe their relatioship. Aother icoic piece of history is the Great Wall. A visit there was a must for me. Which part of it depeds o your sese of adveture ad fitess. Eve after you dispese with the myths that it is a sigle cotiuous structure ad that it ca be see from space (it ca t, ay more tha a fishig lie ca be see from the other side of a river), Chia s best-kow attractio is still mid-bogglig. The world s largest historical site is referred to i Madari as Wali Chagcheg ( 10,000-Li Log Wall or simply Very Log Wall ). It begis at Shahaigua o the Bo Hai Sea ad sakes west to a fort at Jiayu Gua i the Gobi Desert. Its origis date back to the Warrig States Period ( B.C.), whe rival kigdoms bega buildig defesive walls to thwart each other s 39

21 Steamed bus are cooked fresh o the market Fresh mushrooms o a street barrow, barbecued scorpios ayoe? Caramel coated waluts. bowls of octopus tetacles with steamig hot broth 40 41

22 Cotrastig cotemporary art at 798 district meets ceturies old architecture of the Summer Palace armies. The kig of Qi, who evetually coquered the other states to become the first emperor of a uified Chia, egaged i large-scale wall buildig toward the ed of his reig, although tales of 300,000 coscripted labourers are embellishmets of subsequet dyasties. Durig the Ha dyasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), the Wall was exteded west, ad additios were made i completely differet locatios, accordig to the military eeds of the day. Although may tour guides will try to persuade you otherwise, the Mig Wall you see today is urelated to the Qi Wall, which lies far to the orth. The Mig eve wet to the trouble of callig their wall Bia Qiag (Frotier Wall) to avoid comparisos with our Y20 each ad marched upwards towards the ow visible stoe steps, or buyig a ticket for the cable car. For gettig the tyraical first emperor of Chia, Qi Shi Huagdi. The wall. A steep climb of perhaps just 1km. A good 30 mis dow, it s the stoe steps or cable car agai - or tobogga, origial Wall was built almost etirely from tamped earth, ad later you will fid yourself stadig o top of this wild ad which has to be the most fu way to get back to the bottom ofte crumbled away withi decades of beig costructed. Talk woderful piece of history, takig i the widig Wall from via a ti chute o a wheeled trolley with had brake. A of satellite-mappig the curret Wall is faciful - for most of its both directios - up ad over impossibly poity peaks. It s bit theme-parky, but how may people ca claim to have legth, the structure is barely visible from the groud. This, ad hard to imagie how, let aloe why this route was chose. toboggaed dow from the Great Wall of Chia? the fact that there is o sigle Great Wall makes it impossible to The peaks themselves impeetrable barriers, let aloe with a Beig the tourist have that it is, you will fid a burger joit, pi dow the Wall s precise legth. high stoe wall ad guarded watchtower every 500m ruig sadwich chai, coffee shops ad pizza place, as well as a The Wall s most easily visited sectios are Ba Da Lig ad Juyog o top of it. museum, ad souveir village with overly ethusiastic sales Gua, while Mutiayu, Ji Sha Lig, ad the vertigious Simatai People with vertigo take ote, some sectios here are me ad wome sellig all maer of cheap ad cheerful require a full day s outig ad some erves of steel. We wated perilously close the edge, the wall i may sectios is steep mometos at iflated prices. If you do see somethig you to see both wild ad restored, so we headed for Jiaqou i the ad crumblig. But you will fid you are aloe - ot may ca t live without, haggle, haggle ad haggle some more, early morig. Well, it was early whe we set off, it was almost people veture to these sectios as they are listed as closed these guys are pros whe it comes to separatig you from midday by the time we got to the start poit. Our errat taxi to the public. Where the wall is too fragile or dagerous, your well-eared cash. driver had obviously ever bee to the wild wall, or was he paths lead off to the side leadig hikers through the mass A trip to Bejig would ot be complete without a visit to the able to avigate via GPS. Leavig us to suggest that we might of blossom tress blaketig the hillsides. Obvious i some Summer Palace. Situated i the Haidia District orthwest just stop at the Tourist Iformatio, that we had passed three places, ot so much i others. Although we vetured oto of Beijig City, it is 15km from cetral Beijig ad accessible times already, ad ask for directios. You would be advised to the Wall aloe, if you are easily lost or flustered, you might by udergroud trai etwork - highly recommeded if you make sure your driver is actually familiar with this sectio of the hire the services of a guide for the day who will take you do t wat to sit i traffic all day. Beig the largest ad Wall if you ited to veture out there. As much as Beijig is a cofidetly from Jiqou, 8km to Mu Tia Yu where the Wall is most well-preserved royal park i Chia, it greatly iflueces moder metropolis with a youg, uiversity-educated populatio, completely restored ad scramblig o all fours is o loger Chiese horticulture ad ladscape with its famous atural virtually o oe speaks Eglish. Ad uless you are familiar with ecessary. views ad cultural iterests, which also has log sice bee the sigsogy, complex souds of the Madari laguage, eve Oce at Mu Tia Yu, the sceery chages. This well-restored recogised as The Museum of Royal Gardes. tryig to say the words from a phrase book are met with very sectio a maget for tourist buses ad perhaps the slightly The costructio started i 1750 as a luxurious royal garde blak looks. Addig to that ca also be some ueducated locals less fit. Not a crumblig brick i sight, just flags o poles for royal families to rest ad etertai ad there is o better who look at the Chiese characters but caot read. It ca make leadig herds of colour-coded hats aroud like sheep - time too witess its beauty tha i sprig. It later became for a frustratig, ad time cosumig exercise. through vedors urgig you to buy cold driks, ice-cream the mai residece of royal members i the ed of the Qig Fially at Jiqou after drivig through this agricultural treasure or some uidetifiable sack o a stick. Optios for gettig Dyasty. However, like most of the gardes of Beijig, it 42 chest regio of cherries, chestuts ad raibow trout, we paid up o the Wall here cosist of climbig a large umber of could ot elude the rampages of the Aglo-Frech Allied 43

23 Force ad was destroyed by fire ad it was recorded that Empress Dowager Cixi embezzled avy fuds to recostruct it as a resort i which to sped the rest of her life. This place radiates the atural beauty ad the gradeur of royal gardes ad occupies a area of hectares (742.8 acres) - so do t forget your walkig shoes. For those lookig less for historical sights ad are here for a authetic shoppig experiece, Pajiayua Market i the south of the capital would be a optio. Explorig the rows of stalls ad specialised sectios, you will stumble across atique paitigs ad calligraphy, jade jewellery, woode ad lacquered boxes, carved boe opium pipes, ad may other relics from a bygoe era, such as the Mig or Qig dyasties. Of course, some are fake - like those you thik you got for a bargai. The flea market is at its best o weekeds, whe sellers from all parts of Chia arrive with their local crafts ad specialities. If you do t like crowds, it s ot the place for you. Whe you feel like it s time to eat, which for locals is every miute of the day, try Sack Street - touristy it may be, but if you go with a ope mid ad a empty stomach, you ll be richly rewarded at Wagfujig market. Street sacks from all over Chia feature here, from the tasty shredded lamb ad coriader burgers from Shaxi Provice, to the dreaded scorpios or sakes o sticks from Shadog. The jia big is a savoury pacake origially from Chia s east coast that s perfect for a fillig, o-the-go bite. Street stads usually cosist of a hot plate o the back of a bike ad appear aroud breakfast ad luchtime. The pacake mixture is spread o to the hot plate with a sigle flourish, ad egg is spread o top. A smear of dark, sweet wheat sauce is followed by a spriklig of fresh chilli ad gree oios. Fially, the key igrediet: a sheet of cruchy fried dough that s bashed ito the folds of the pacake before it s haded over to you i a totally impractical thi plastic bag. Oe thig is for sure, you will ot go hugry i Beijig, eve if you ca t stomach the traditioal foods, there s McD ad KFC, but from morig Baozi (Otherwise kow as steamed bus, the Chiese usually eat these for breakfast, so you ll have to get i lie with the locals at 8am to ejoy the best oes. About the size of a fist, the extremely light ad fluffy dough keeps the fillig pipig hot util you take a bite) till late at ight where you ca wait o stools outside of the most popular restaurats eatig complimetary suflower seeds ad faffig with your smartphoe util a table iside becomes available. Try it, try it all. The cruchier, more gelatious, more gristly (ad grisly) ad chewy the better. 45

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25 Respectig Ramada It s almost that time of year agai, Ramada. You ll probably agree that most of us kow the basics. No eatig or drikig i public places, o live etertaimet ad everyoe be a little more modest with their dress code, i.e. cover a little more flesh - ad yes, this meas you getleme too. But here are a few thigs you might ot be aware of... Culturally speakig... Ramada is the moth durig which fastig is obligatory for all Muslims. It is the ith moth of the Islamic luar caledar (Hijri year). Fastig is oe of the five pillars of Islam ad durig Ramada, Muslims refrai from eatig ad drikig from daw to suset. At Maghrib, the time of the fourth prayer, the fast is broke ad iftar starts. Piety The moth is a time of piety, charity ad good deeds. Muslims refrai from smokig ad talkig ill of others ad they are expected to sped a large part of their time prayig ad readig the Qura ad helpig less fortuate people by givig alms (moey) to the poor or doatig food to charity. Fastig is meat to develop a believer s moral ad spiritual values ad keeps them away from greed, selfishess ad material cocers. Symbols of Ramada There are some special decoratios that are quite symbolic at this special time of year, like the later ad cao. The later sigifies light ad the cao souds the time for iftar. People usually break their fast with dates ad water as Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) did, so dates are always o a iftar table. Eve o-muslims ca atted iftar. You should try it at least oce durig Ramada as it is a woderful experiece ad will allow you to see, uderstad ad eve meet Muslims who are fastig. The Greetig The ext time you fid yourself i lie at the supermarket or i the office ext to your Muslim colleague, feel free to wish him or her Ramada Mubarak or Ramada Kareem or simply Happy Ramada. 48 Eid Eid al-fitr was origiated by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is observed o the first of the moth of Shawwal at the ed of the moth of Ramada. Eid al-fitr is celebrated for oe, two or three days. Commo greetigs durig this holiday are the Arabic greetig Eid Mubārak ( Blessed Eid ) or Eid Sa īd ( Happy Eid ). The religious Eid is a sigle day durig which Muslims are ot permitted to fast. The holiday celebrates the coclusio of the 29 or 30 days of daw-to-suset fastig durig the etire moth of Ramada. The day of Eid, therefore, falls o the first day of the moth of Shawwal. The date for the start of ay luar Hijri moth varies based o the observatio of ew moo by local religious authorities, so the exact day of celebratio varies by locality. However, i most coutries, it is geerally celebrated o the same day as Saudi Arabia.

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