Heading for Olympic glory?

Cyprus’ shooting team will have a woman on board this summer as they head for Beijing

The way things were

The Leventis Museum in Nicosia has an archive of 20,000 old photographs of the area. Some of the best are now on display

Forget tea and sympathy – it’s tea and chocolate biscuits that will get you through any crisis, keep you going until lunchtime, and make family car journeys bearable

MOLENAARTJE

Culinary favourite has little in way of nutrition

Spice up your life

Pork Schnitzel with Apple and Sauerkraut
Serves 4

4 x 125g pork escalopes, bashed out to about 7.5mm thickness
100g plain flour, seasoned
1 egg, lightly beaten
100g fresh breadcrumbs
Vegetable oil, for shallow frying
Lemon wedges, to serve
For the sauerkraut
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely sliced

Tomorrow is National Pecan Day in America, and I was amused to find that there is an entire website dedicate to pecans, from which you can order pecans, find recipes, buy gifts (like cookbooks dedicated to pecan or virgin pecan oil), and, to top things off… even get all your questions answered by dialing 1.800.4.PECANS!

Nice and comfortable

Vettriano’s Restaurant

The judgment of Paris

The tasting that changed the wine world

WHO WOULD have thought a couple of months ago that Mehmet Ali Talat would have been going for a morning stroll in Ledra Street? This latest act of provocation by the Turkish Cypriot pseudo-leader, just when the climate had improved, would never have occurred if the Ethnarch was still mismanaging water resources.