The Globalist, episode 205
Analysis of the global Olympics coverage, we visit a West Bank restaurant celebrating local produce, and get business news from Istanbul.
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Business / Business Hubs
Business Briefing
The company championing local organic produce in the UAE, Honda's new business jets, plus more news from the business world.
Edits / Entrepreneurialism
Go up market
Monocle meets the two visionaries who have shown that the fortunes of an entire neighbourhood can be transformed simply by setting up a weekly market selling local produce.
Business / Fashion
Hair raising
The Bronner Brothers’ first hair show attracted 300 people at a local YMCA. Now one of the largest producers of African American haircare products, their legendary trade shows are part circus, part religious meeting.
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: Self-sufficient
Matthew Evans was a successful chef and food critic before giving it all up to move to Hobart and run his own farm. For Evans, it’s all about eating and drinking local produce, which he points out to Monocle on a walk…
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: You are what you eat
Food is an entire philosophy for Alice Waters, founder of restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She would choose to dine with family for her hypothetical last meal, and on the menu would be fresh produce bought…
Affairs / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Wednesday 2 December
A good whine
Finding a decent glass of wine in India is enough to drive a person to drink. While wine is increasingly popular – consumption is expected to increase between 25 per cent and 30 per cent a year between 2009 and 2012 –…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Friday 2 November
Yes! We have no vegetables whatsoever
On the breakfast and dinner tables of the seven million people who live in Hong Kong you’ll scarcely find a single product grown locally.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Monday 12 April
Vinitaly wine fair
Verona may be famous for a pair of besotted teenagers brought to life by the Bard, but in early April the Italian city focuses on another love story: the nation’s obsession with wine.
Affairs / Television
Monocolumn
Friday 14 May
The danger of narco-soaps
Tales of the drug underworld featuring silicone-enhanced women and handsome drug kingpins are the staple of Colombia’s hit soap shows.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Sunday 31 January
Haiti according to Médecins Sans Frontières
Haiti has raised a lot of questions about how the world helps when disaster strikes.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Tuesday 17 August
Milking the coconut industry
They pop up everywhere. Hanging from trees, mixed into smoothies, sprinkled on salads, applied during massages, carved into jewellery.
Affairs / Film
Monocolumn
Thursday 22 October
Lights, camera, propaganda!
A president, dressed in a sharp suit and red tie, addresses crowds of cheering flag-waving Georgians from outside the parliament building in Tbilisi.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 5 November
Seoul food for the world
South Korea is spending $40m (€27m) in a bid to quadruple the number of Korean restaurants abroad and boost its food exports.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Monday 29 November
New Zealand asserts itself
To use the Antipodean vernacular, New Zealand and Australia are great mates.
Business / Innovation
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 September
A job for the world’s leading rat catcher
Back from August holidays, residents of Milan’s posh Brera neighbourhood have discovered some unwelcome squatters in their midst: a rat colony.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 2 May
Service with restraint
A restaurant that aims for a relaxed atmosphere is to be commended – but your best friends should be sat around the table with you, not taking your order.