61. OUT THERE NEWS Ramadan and Hanukah) comes a welcome flurry of activity taking our minds off terroristthreats and the war in afghanistan. cooking, shopping, wrapping packages http://www.megastories.com/diaryroom/usattacks/barbara/barb011129.shtml

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62. Afghan Housing particularly for women who must spend time indoors cooking with poor the followingas design goals for any construction technology suitable for afghanistan http://www.fas.org/housing/criteria.htm

FAS Homepage Index Search Join FAS Housing Technology for Afghanistan for High Quality and Affordability Home Needs and Solutions High Quality, Affordable Housing Technology for Afghanistan Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS) Housing System ... New Housing Technologies and Economic Assistance Figure 1 - Seismic Zones (Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program) Figure 2 - Earthquake Damage in Traditional Housing Goal : Provide safe, attractive, affordable housing for Afghans as they rebuild their nation after a generation of war. Proposal : Work with groups now building homes in Afghanistan to introduce a construction method based on Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS, commonly called styrofoam) walls and roof elements covered with a cementacious material. Styrene pellets would be imported from manufacturers (in India or Pakistan) and expanded into sheets in a local Afghan facility. The volume increases approximately 25 times when it is expanded. We propose to build and test two homes using the design in San Diego in 2003 and be prepared to build 100 test homes in Afghanistan later in the year. Background Energy use is also presents a major problem. The region is at a high elevation (Kabul is 6000 feet) and average January temperatures are 27 F. Most traditional homes are heated with wood, dung, or kerosene. Wood shortages are also creating fuel shortages. And indoor air quality causes major health problems, particularly for women who must spend time indoors cooking with poor ventilation. Eye problems are common.

63. Afghanisthan - Afghani Food - Foods Of Afghanistan In 1736 Nadir Shah (head of Persia) occupied afghanistan. We are dedicated tofine cooking, fine ingredients, fine products, family farms and to organic http://www.indianfoodsco.com/Newsletter/Afghanistan/afghanistan.html

S HOP FOR Food Products Spa/Rejuvenation Products Gifts Kitchen ... view cart Afghanistan Cuisine Welcome to our Afghani aisle and take home a taste of Afghanistan . Here you will find practically everything you'll need to create your own authentic Afghani meals. Shop for a variety of specialty foods, including Afghani walnuts, pine nuts, pasta, pickles, seasonings and spices. For the gourmet, there's an assortment of mountain mint, Basmati rice and Himalayan choi. We also have a complete Afghani menu for your dinning and entertaining pleasure. Afghanistani cuisine is mainly influenced by that of Persia, India and Mongolia. Taste of Afghanistan includes Afghani Naan, Kabuli Palow - afganii styled rice pilaf, aushok, kebabs (lamb, beef and chicken), sambosa, crispy triangle purses of fried pastries filled with ground beef and chickpeas. Mantu, steamed dumplings fattened with minced onion beef, buranee-e-kadu or eggplant, chunks of fragrant butternut squash or eggplant topped with a dollop of creamy white yogurt and a spoonful of keema, a light meat sauce made with oil, chopped onion, ground beef and tomato puree, subzi or sautéed spinach delicately tempered with onion, salt and garlic. Afghani desserts are best taken with cups of not-so-strong but decent choi, Afghani black tea.

64. Mythology's Myth*ing Links = Eurasia / Central Asia: Afghanistan, Page 2 http//www.afghanweb.com/culture/cooking/ From afghanistan Online comes anotherpage of recipes but, as of 10/12/01, it s temporarily under construction so I http://www.mythinglinks.org/eurasia~Afghanistan2.html

Page is graphics-rich: please be patient as it loads. MYTH*ING LINKS by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D. GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS EURASIA / CENTRAL ASIA AFGHANISTAN: Page 2 Map showing the Persian Empire of Parthia in the 6th century BCE (including locations of Bactria, Gandhara, Scythians, etc.) PREHISTORIC, River Goddess from Begram Ivory, 47cm Tall (No date given) Kabul Museum (Gallery B) - permission pending http://www.gandhara.com.au/afghan_table.html From Gandhara Galleries comes a fine historical chronology from 50,000 BCE - 2001 CE here's the first intriguing entry: 50,000 BCE-20,000 BCE Archaeologists have identified evidence of stone age technology in Aq Kupruk, and Hazar Sum. Plant remains at the foothill of the Hindu Kush mountains indicate, that North Afghanistan was one of the earliest places to domestic plants and animals together with Iraq. Moving forward thousands of years, the thoughtless brutality and far-reaching consequences of this item struck me: 1219-1221 Invasion of Afghanistan by Genghis Khan and the destruction of Irrigation systems, which turned fertile soil into permanent deserts. http://www.afghanan.net/afghanistan/

65. Resources And Economics Currently, only around 6% of afghanistan s 21 million people have access to electricity,with the rest using diesel, firewood, or manure for cooking and heating http://www.unomaha.edu/afghanistan_atlas/economy.html

Afghanistan Atlas Project Economy Overview: Over two decades of conflict have reduced landlocked Afghanistan to one of the world's most impoverished nations. Rebellion against Soviet occupation throughout the 1980s decimated a large segment of Afghanistan's institutional and physical infrastructure. Most of the more than six million Afghan refugees who departed for Iran and Pakistan during this period have now returned. Continued civil strife during the last 12 years has further eroded the economy to the point of consisting of little more than subsistence farming and cross-border trade. Per capita income has withered severely due to very limited employment opportunities. Unabated opium production, promotion of terrorism and its, until recently, staunch loyalty to Osama bin Laden, who had helped finance the efforts to oust the Russians, have combined to further isolate Afghanistan from the international community. U.N. sanctions imposed in November 1999 have frozen Afghan assets abroad and prohibited international operation of its national air carrier, Ariana. Earlier U.S. sanctions prohibit American investment in Taliban-held Afghan territory. China and most Central Asian countries have also expressed their concern and a number of Afghanistan's borders have been closed to trade. Further sanctions on fuel supplies and trade are under consideration. The Afghans have repressed bin Laden's public activities and in February 2001 offered to extradite him to Saudi Arabia to stand trial.

66. Airman: A Taste Of Home - Airman's World - Afghanistan's Air Force Village BAGRAM AIR BASE, afghanistan It s Sunday in afghanistan s Air Force Village, andonce again, a huge, 15gallon metal cooking pot will provide a little taste http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_3_47/ai_98880805

@import url(/css/us/style.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); Advanced Search Home Help IN all publications this publication News Automotive Business Computing Entertainment Health News Reference Sports YOU ARE HERE Articles Airman March, 2003 Content provided in partnership with Print friendly Tell a friend Find subscription deals A taste of home - Airman's World - Afghanistan's Air Force Village Airman March, 2003 by Adam Johnston BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan It's Sunday in Afghanistan's Air Force Village, and once again, a huge, 15-gallon metal cooking pot will provide a little taste of home to deployed airmen. Harry Connick Jr. sings "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down" from a CD player as folks line up for another Sunday helping of home cookin' by Senior Master Sgt. Timothy Treaster. "There's a pot of soup right there. Get yourself a bowl," Treaster said with a slight southern drawl to Sunday brunch latecomers. While the Air National Guardsman from McEntire Air National Guard Base, S.C., is clearly the catalyst for Sunday's homespun brand of brunch, he continually refuses to accept credit for the food as he spins off lists of contributors to the day's recipebeef vegetable soup. "I'm not really a cook," he said as he tilted his desert camouflage hat to the back of his head. "A lot of people come out to helpSergeant Rayos, Marv the 'Brit'we just put a bunch of stuff together and come up with some soup. We do whatever we can. Whatever we re able to scrounge up. It's a melting pot of sorts."

67. Weblinks On The War In Afghanistan Rudyard Kipling. 100 Afghan Proverbs. ABC News America Fights Back.About afghanistan. Afghan cooking. Afghan Daily - sponsored by WorldNews.com. http://www.historyteacher.net/WarInAfghanistan-Weblinks.htm

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. - Rudyard Kipling 100 Afghan Proverbs ABC News - America Fights Back About Afghanistan ... MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Studies Projec t The Mirror International - A Muslim View of World Affairs Most Wanted Terrorists - FBI website MSNBC - America Strikes Back The Music of Afghanistan ... The U. S. War in Afghanistan (The World Socialist Web Site) " The War Against Terrorism" - CNN War in Afghanistan - BBC News War in Afghanistan - The Guardian ... in Afghanistan [1 of 36 cartoons] Speech by Secy. of State Colin Powell on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Speech by Senator Hillary Clinton on Women in Afghanistan Attorney General John Ashcroft provides total number of ... Free Web Counters Latest Update:

68. British Red Cross - Inside Afghanistan staff who delivered assistance to over half a million people in central afghanistan.Not only do the ICRC provide food, blankets and cooking equipment, but http://www.redcross.org.uk/n2f1

Press Releases Volunteers get vocal Appeal for Sudan The Glasgow disaster – a volunteer’s view ... January Newsletter - Issue 1 - Food Crisis in Africa Inside Afghanistan Jason Parker is a relief delegate with the ICRC based in Aq Kupruk, Afghanistan: "It's eight months into my mission with the relief department of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as I reflect upon a momentous year in my life and the lives of the Afghan people." Jason was working at the British Red Cross when he joined an emergency response unit heading for Afghanistan over Christmas 2001. Following this he joined the ICRC as a relief delegate, returning to Afghanistan in the spring of 2002. He writes from Afghanistan: "I'm waiting for trucks. It's not the first time I've waited, but this time the frustration is relieved by the reason for the delay: rain. "Rain has been a stranger to this land for several years but conflict has not, and these two factors combined have led to my presence, and the presence of hundreds of other aid workers, in Afghanistan. It's eight months into my mission with the relief department of the ICRC as I reflect upon a momentous year both in my life and in the lives of the Afghan people. "I've been privileged to witness the great changes that have occurred here in the past year and throughout which ordinary Afghans have been striving to rebuild their lives. As a result of years of drought and war, many Afghans had to sell their livestock and belongings as they watched their harvests dwindle and their homes destroyed, and take up more debts just to survive.

69. Cookbooks Of The World - Afghanistan - Afghan Food And Recipe Books Afghan Cookbook Afghan Food and Recipes Afghan cooking,Cookbooks of the World afghanistan. Page 1 of 1, http://www.almudo.com/AfghanistanCookbooks.htm

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70. EGullet.com -> Q&A - Beginners Guide To Regional Indian Cooking more from central asia than turkeyboth ghazni and ghor are in presentday afghanistan). Ihave a couple of general questions about Indian cooking How many http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?showtopic=37608

71. US Department Of State Post Report in quarters and an inexpensive “charpoy” bed, cotton mattress, blanket, hot plate,teapot, and cooking pot. Islam is the official religion of afghanistan. http://foia.state.gov/MMS/postrpt/pr_view_all.asp?CntryID=173

72. Recollections Of Afghanistan afghanistan is a place where life is terribly hard, yet it is also a place of ofthe busy bazaars, and smell the savory smoke of the kababi cooking lamb over http://www.congregationalist.org/Jan-March_04/Afghanistan/prayer_beads_christmas

Cover, Prayer Beads and Christmas Lights Recollections of Afghanistan by Ted Miller The Congregationalist Christmas story for 2004, a few months early. The dapper gentleman was a bit early, which was very unusual. In Afghanistan, the usual procedure for having houseguests was to set the time on the invitation at about an hour and a half before you really wanted them to arrive. If you said dinner is at six, you might expect your guests to begin getting ready around that hour and arrive about 8:30 or 9:00. So, as I was staying with my parents, 30 years ago, in their home in the Shari Now section of Kabul, Afghanistan, I was the only one who happened to be dressed and ready when Professor Hamidi arrived for dinner. He had come on time! A young boy from the Hazara Moslems, Shiite by tradition, who were subjected to systematic starvation and genocide by the Taliban. Professor Hamidi knew the story; he just wanted me to tell it to him. Three Kings came from Afghanistan. Author Ted Miller, 30 years later, can still hear the sounds of the busy bazaars and savor the smoke of the kababi cooking lamb over charcoal fires. Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam.

73. Afghanistan's Web Site - Natural Regions In eastern and southeastern afghanistan, forest lands amounted to about 2 millionhectares scarcity of fuel, and the need for firewood for cooking and heating http://www.afghanistans.com/Information/NaturalR.htm

Natural Regions Home Up Afghanistan History Natural Regions Rivers and Lakes Climate Natural Resources Environmental Issues ... Economy Except for the river valleys and a few places in the lowlands where underground fresh water makes irrigation possible, agriculture is difficult. Only about 15 percent of the land is suitable for farming. Moreover, a war with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the 1980s and the subsequent civil war in the 1990s left some of that land unusable because of neglect, the planting of explosive mines, and other problems. In general, sheep and goat grazing make up the main agricultural land use. In eastern and southeastern Afghanistan, forest lands amounted to about 2 million hectares (about 5 million acres), or about 4.5 percent of the country, before the war. The ravages of war, the scarcity of fuel, and the need for firewood for cooking and heating have caused rapid deforestation. Because Afghanistan has so many high mountains, the passes through them have been of profound importance in both the history of invasion of the country and in commerce. In the 320s BC Alexander the Great invaded the country through the Kushan Pass (about 4370 m/about 14,340 ft) in the west and left it to the east through the low Khyber Pass (920 m/3018 ft) to invade India. These same passes were used by the Mughal emperor Babur to conquer both Afghanistan and India in the 1500s. The famous Salang Pass (about 3880 m/12,720 ft) and its Soviet-built tunnel in the central Hindu Kush was one of the main routes the Soviets used to invade Afghanistan in 1979.

74. More Than 350 Tons Of Medical Supplies Shipped To Afghanistan Burns from cooking are, unfortunately, quite common in afghanistan.In particular, women are vulnerable to burns from cooking oil. http://www.useu.be/Categories/GlobalAffairs/HumanResponse/Feb1102WHOMedicineAfgh

More than 350 Tons of Medical Supplies Shipped to Afghanistan Date February 11, 2002 The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that it has sent more than 350 tons of medical supplies into Afghanistan since September 2001. The shipments have been the sole source of essential medicines for about 3 million people, WHO said in a February 11 statement. The shipments are important in a country where the medical system and the supply channels for necessary equipment and drugs have been broken down by years of war and neglect. The WHO is also delivering supplies to remote areas of Afghanistan that are inaccessible because of snow-covered mountain passes through much of the year. WHO is sending supplies by aircraft to isolated Ghor province starting the week of February 11. WHO spokesperson Lori Hieber-Giradet said, "Many health clinics and hospitals would not have been able to provide even the most rudimentary services to needy populations through the past several months without these supplies." She spoke to reporters at a briefing in Islamabad. In October 2001, WHO released a survey of health conditions in Afghanistan indicating that measles, acute respiratory infections, pregnancy related complications, diarrhea, and tuberculosis were major threats to the population. The WHO supplies equip hospitals and clinics to treat these conditions, and the agency offers other essential health services.

75. Saving Lives With Solar Cookers Solar Cookers Arriving in afghanistan. Solar Cooker Aids Village. MCDS Responseto Crisis. Teacher Resources. What is Solar cooking? Resources. Web casts. http://www.miamicountryday.org/aces/SolarCookers/solar_cookers.htm

Saving Lives with Solar Cookers Solar Slideshow (PowerPoint) Solar Presentation (Movie in Flash) Please be patient while the presentation loads Solar Cooking Recipes (Movie in Flash) Please be patient while the presentation loads Afghanistan Senegal Haiti Use of Solar Cooker in Afghan Girls School Senegal Project Haiti Project December 18, 2003 Project in Haiti receives Award from Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert Solar Cookers Arriving in Afghanistan Solar Cooker Aids Village MCDS Response to Crisis Teacher Resources What is Solar Cooking? Resources Web casts Student Contributions ... Publications

76. Afghanistan/Afghanistan - Backgrounder - Afghanistan/Afghanistan - Fiche D'infor of camps for internally displaced people in western afghanistan near the Relief Foundationto provide essential household items such as cooking utensils, soap http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/webcountry.nsf/0/28C96972F4CDFA5785256B980073

77. ReliefWeb: WV Poised For Afghanistan Entry We have tents, plastic sheeting, cooking utensils, blankets and other nonfooditems ready to transport across the southern border of afghanistan. http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/ec366517c751fc7f85256b1200747533?OpenDocume

78. ReliefWeb: IOM Press Briefing Notes 11 Jan 2002: Afghanistan, Guinea/Sierra Leon tent consignment is expected tomorrow and will be trucked directly to afghanistan. Anotherconsignment of 335 tents, tarpaulins and cooking sets destined for http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/4e99075a8546c83fc1256b3e003c0392?OpenDocume

79. Inasmuch Update: Beginning Again In Northern Afghanistan to Love in the Midst of Tragedy, Advance 9011253 and designating afghanistan. . Kitincludes Plates, a tea kettle, cups, spoons, a ladle a cooking knife, a http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/update/beginningagain.stm

Special Edition on Love in the Midst of Tragedy Summer 2002 Beginning Again in Northern Afghanistan Hazar Bogh was used as a front line between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. Both sides contributed to the destruction. Peoples homes have been all but destroyed. Many of the walls still stand, but they are mere shells. The roofs and supports are gone, the wooden frames for the doors and windows have been torn out, and all their belongings looted. UMCOR and Mercy Corps have teamed together to provide the people of Hazar Bogh with shelter kits, fuel for the winter, and household and kitchen items. Getting these much needed supplies to this region of northern Afghanistan was a complicated, circuitous process . The supplies were ordered from Pakistan, and because of the war had to be trucked from Pakistan through Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and finally across the Pyanj river into Afghanistan. Getting goods and people into and out of Tajikistan took weeks of negotiation. When the supplies and relief workers finally arrived in Taloqan, Afghanistan, they still had a 40 kilometer drive ahead of them, over a dirt road full of deep holes. It took hours to negotiate those 40 kilometers. The people of Qanchoga were expecting the arrival of their shelter kits and were waiting with their coupons in hand. When they did their assessment a few weeks ago, Mercy Corps staff had given each family a coupon that listed the family's name and the items they would receive. A typical shelter kit is designed for a family of six or seven and contains a winter tent, six blankets, three sleeping pads, three mattresses, three pillows, and a stove. Kitchen and household items arrived and were distributed a few weeks later. The UMCOR/Mercy Corps crew worked with men of the village to unload the supplies, then demonstrated how to set up the tents and stoves. Afterwards, the village elders hosted them to a dinner of rice with lamb.

80. Prospect Books: Fish In Afghanistan crisp and dripping in oil or in a korma (stew) served with rice in afghanistan. surprisedto find that he describes a number of ways of cooking fish, although http://www.kal69.dial.pipex.com/shop/pages/890right.htm

Fish in Afghanistan Helen J. Saberi The country is Afghanistan. I draw on my own experience in living there for nine years and on the reference books available to me. As for these sources, I should explain that they provide very little information, except perhaps for Louis Dupree's book on Afghanistan. In particular my hero-author Aitchison (1890) in his magisterial survey on the Products of Western Afghanistan and of North-Eastern Persia, does not mention any fish, nor does Elphinstone, a sub-heroic author whose in-depth study of the Afghans entitled The Kingdom of Caubul (1815, FISH IN AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan is a land-locked country and the nearest ocean, the Indian Ocean, is about 650 miles away. Some marine fish are brought up, or used to come up, from Pakistan in the winter months; but no shellfish. Afghans don't eat shellfish because it is considered by some Muslims to be magrouh, Barbels (in the carp family), said to be of the species Barbus capito conocephalus, are found in streams both north and south of the Hindu Kush. These are locally called shir-mahi

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