Category: Culture

Bekhti upset by his experience in Lapland “Polar Day”

For the filming of the Franco-Swedish series “Polar Day”, broadcast from Monday on Canal +, the actress Leïla Bekhti immersed herself several months in Lapland, an “adventure in itself” which she returned upset.

The origin of the Swedish thriller “Polar Day”, co-produced by Canal + and SVT, Swedish public television, has attracted the actress. She finds the Scandinavian authors a “great writing ambition” at the service of the characters and the detective story. “I loved the Bron series and the film Festen” […]

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Louise Robard a new smile in the vocal jazz landscape

With a gypsy jazz guitarist father, Louise Robard was quickly affected by fire of jazz. She made her lines at the Conservatoire de Rennes. Pascal Salmon, one of his former professors is not surprised to see Jazz in the West: “She was already what we now hear all the shoots were already there as watering is not done […]

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In Belgian lab, scientists search for ‘perfect’ beer yeast

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LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium famously produces hundreds of different beers, but that is nothing compared to the varieties of yeast used to make it – around 30,000 are kept on ice at just one laboratory by scientists seeking the perfect ingredient for the perfect brew.A team from the University of Leuven and life sciences research institute VIB are examining and cross-breeding yeast strains, adding modern genetics to a search for brewing perfection that dates back centuries.“We’re … using robots to cross different yeast like farmers have been doing with cattle and livestock for centuries,” genetics professor Kevin Verstrepen told Reuters.“We’re now doing the same with yeast on a massive scale, making millions of new strains or variants of yeast and testing which are the better ones.” […]

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The Cheese Nun

Mother Noella, of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, practices the sacred art of cheesemaking

“I didn’t even know cows before I came here,” she continued. “When you join an abbey, you get to try many things you never would have done. And I happened to fall in love with a cow named Sheba, and then learned to make cheese.” […]

Source: The Cheese Nun – CBS News