SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
lifestyle
Payless shoe source
celebrates 5 years in Kuwait
P
ayless shoe source announced that it is celebrating its
fifth anniversary in Kuwait. The chain opened its first
store in Kuwait in 2009 at The Avenues and has since
grown to 12 stores located across the country.
When Payless opened 5 years ago, its mission was to
become the first choice of style and value in footwear and
accessories for its target customers. It has succeeded in
reaching a wide audience of shoppers and will continue to
offer the best footwear at the most competitive prices.
Payless stores are positioned as the first choice for budget-conscious consumers in footwear and accessories. The
offerings comprise a comprehensive range of shoes and
accessories including fashionable sandals, wedges, flats,
canvas sneakers, boots and handbags, all at great value
prices. Two unique features of Payless stores are their
extended and wide-width sizing for women and their right-
sizing service for children.
Payless’ collection includes shoes for every need - dressy,
casual and athletic styles for women, men and kids, as well
as special footwear like sports footwear, water socks and
slip-resistant footwear, among others. Payless stores also
carry an array of accessories such as socks, scarves, jewelry
and hair items, all intended to help everyone complete
their looks.
Payless locations in Kuwait include1st Avenue -The
Avenues , Salem Al-Mubarak Street, Abdulla Al Mubarak Coop, Abu Halifa Co-op, Bayan Co-op, Hateen Co-op, Khaldiya
Co-op, Mishref Co-op, Opp. Al Fanar Mall - Salmiya, Sultan
Center - Hawally, Awtad Center - Jahra. A Payless Kids store
is also located in The Mall — The Avenues.
Beards name ‘Historic Heston’ cookbook of the year
A
nyone with a hankering for hash of snails or
powdered duck or a host of other centuries-old
British cookery should be plenty pleased with
this year’s James Beard Foundation cookbook of the
year.
But for the rest of us - by which I mean, virtually
ever y last one of us - the selec tion of Heston
Blumenthal’s “Historic Heston,” a $200, 431-page epic
exploration of mostly antiquated recipes, will be a
head-scratcher. It’s one of those books so fabulously
out of touch with any cook who doesn’t have an army
of sous chefs at his side, one has to ask for whom this
book was written.
Actually, the answer is obvious. It was written by and
for Blumenthal, a talented writer and brilliant chef with
a host of restaurants in England. And in that regard, it is
a masterpiece. Blumenthal has a knack for ferreting out
the genealogy of a dish, a skill he’s put to fascinating
use in previous books, including his 2006 “In Search of
Perfection.”
But the selection of his latest tome as cookbook of
the year - announced Friday evening during a ceremony in New York - is puzzling. Blumenthal takes recipes
already made obtuse by history (salmagundy, anyone?),
and instead of translating them into terms contemporary readers could appreciate or at least learn from, he
filters them through an equally inaccessible lens of
modernist (think whiz-bang science-driven cooking)
techniques.
What’s more, the book got two awards, also beating
out David Kinch’s “Manresa: An Edible Reflection” and
Rene Redzepi’s “Rene Redzepi: A Work in Progress” in
the cooking from a professional point of view category.
Of greater interest to most home cooks will be the
foundation’s naming of Diana Kennedy to its Cookbook
Hall of Fame. Kennedy has spent much of her life learning and preserving the traditional cooking and ingredients of Mexico, a mission that sends her across the
country in search of elusive recipes.
Her first cookbook, “The Cuisines of Mexico,” was
written based on research with home cooks across
Mexico and established her as the foremost authority
on the cuisine. It remains the seminal work on the subject.
The Beard Foundation’s awards honor those who follow in the footsteps of Beard, considered the dean of
American cooking when he died in 1985. Friday’s ceremony named winners in media and publishing; a separate ceremony on Monday will be held for chefs and
restaurants.
Some familiar faces nabbed broadcast awards Friday.
Martha Stewart was honored for her public television
series “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School” in the studiobased television category, while Anthony Bourdain
took the top honor for on-location television for “The
Mind of a Chef,” also on public television. Outstanding
food personality or host went to Food Network’s Ina
Garten for her “Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics.”
The big winner in the journalism awards was David
Chang’s Lucky Peach, a quarterly launched in 2011 that
quickly became one of the top food magazines. Though
the magazine itself wasn’t honored Friday, its writers
netted awards in five different categories - humor, food
and culture writing, personal essay, profile and the MFK
Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. — AP
Taiwan Art
Sculpture
V
isitors admire sand sculptures on a beach during the
Sand Sculpture Festival 2014 in Fulong, northern New
Taipei City yesterday. Some 30 sand sculpture works
made by thirty artists from 17 countries are being displayed at
the exhibition between May 3 to June 30. — AFP photos