Recipe: Glazed Arctic Char with and Meyer Lemon Couscous Broth
by Fazia Rizvi
21 January 2008, 7:55 PM
Today I tried Bobby Flay's Arctic
Char with Tangerine-Habanero Glaze and Meyer Lemon Couscous Broth. This one turned out fabulous! The fish was very tender, moist and
flavorful. Amazingly, this all came together in just 30 minutes. Things I did differently: Problems: By the way, for the folks who like something non-alcoholic to go with
meals, I'd recommend mango juice to go with this. It was fabulous with the
dish.
I made the glaze a few days ahead of time, and substituted mango nectar
for the tangerine juice (since I didn't have any tangerine juice) and
several dashes of cayenne pepper for the habanero. That saved me a lot of
time. I also left the skin on while cooking, and removed it only before
plating, following Bobby Flay's instructions in the episode, rather than
this recipe.
The arctic char we bought looked a bit ravaged by the attempt to de-pin
bone it. I also didn't have a oven-safe non-stick skillet, so I was using
a tri-ply with just the olive oil. The fish ended up sticking to the pan a
bit, so my crust didn't come out as nice. I think I also was a bit
generous with the lemony broth on the cous-cous, so it was a bit too
tangy. I'll ease up on that next time.
It All Comes Down to Motivations
by Fazia Rizvi
21 January 2008, 5:29 PM
I found out about this one via Kelly
Martin on the LinuxChix
Live
news aggregator:
A comprehensive review of 31 years of data from 830 mid-size to large U.S.
workplaces found that the kind of diversity training exercises offered at most
firms were followed by a 7.5 percent drop in the number of women in management.
The number of black, female managers fell by 10 percent, and the number of
black men in top positions fell by 12 percent. Similar effects were seen for
Latinos and Asians. The analysis did not find that all diversity training is useless. Rather, it
showed that mandatory programs -- often undertaken mainly with an eye to
avoiding liability in discrimination lawsuits -- were the problem. When
diversity training is voluntary and undertaken to advance a company's business
goals, it was associated with increased diversity in management.
This makes sense. If the motivation behind offering "diversity training" is
simply to avoid getting sued, rather than to embrace diversity and make it work
for the business, then the end result will reflect that attitude.Most
Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds:
Most diversity training efforts at American companies are ineffective and even
counterproductive in increasing the number of women and minorities in
managerial positions, according to an analysis that turns decades of
conventional wisdom, government policy and court rulings on their head.