Corned Beef And Cabbage

Corned Beef And Cabbage, Corned Beef and Cabbage Day — better known in some quarters as St. Patrick’s Day — is coming right up. As made-up food holidays go, Corned Beef and Cabbage Day actually makes sense. March 17 is likely the only day of the year you’ll be partaking in this fatty-delicious feast.

Oh, during the year you may have a few corned-beef sandwiches, the thin slices piled high on rye. However, the heaping plate of sliced corned beef accompanied by spicy mustard plus cabbage, potatoes and carrots, probably all boiled in beer, is usually a once-a-year experience.

And get this: Corned beef is as American as apple pie. It’s not that it doesn’t have vague Irish roots, but it just isn’t a beloved holiday dish in Ireland.

Food historians believe that the dish was made popular by Irish immigrants in the United States looking for a substitute for their beloved bacon and cabbage. Irish bacon is meatier, more like ham, and is not cooked crisp like the bacon Americans are familiar with. It’s also pork.

First Day Of Spring

First Day Of Spring, “Hraparak” writes that “Prosperous Armenia” has dissatisfactions towards the candidates who presented their candidature by the majority electoral system. “There was a initial agreement according which leader of the party Gagik Tsarukyan would give a financial assistance despite of the candidate’s abilities.

Leader of the “Prosperous Armenia” was accepted to give assistance to candidates Tigran Stepanyan and Karo Karapetyan in Masis and they would establish staffs and start to work. But those deputies do nothing now and they are just sitting and follow how the RPA candidates work. So it may be supposed that there are problems in “Prosperous Armenia” and financial problems as well.

Or may be Tsarukyan is not in a hurry to start pre-electoral actions in Masis, as this region belongs to Hovik Abrahamyan who is Tsarukyan’s matchmaker”, the newspaper concludes.

“Zhokhovurd” writes that Gagik Tsarukyan announced yesterday that his party would present candidates only in those electoral territories where it has appropriate people. This announcement is significant as members of “Prosperous Armenia” announced before that they were going to put candidacies in all 41 electoral territories. But as the newspaper writes Tsarukyan denied this idea after the last coalition meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. And he confessed himself that the candidates would be presented only in those territories where they had appropriate people.

As “Yerkir” newspaper writes Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s meetings and speeches in the regions are out of the borders of the absurd genre. During his meetings in the regions he delivers speeches about our economical “reforms” and he gives the traditional question in the end of the meeting: what would you like to change in RPA pre-electoral program?

“One can have an imagination, that head of the government had fulfilled all pre-electoral points of 2007 program and now seeks for new ideas in the regions. Gyumri techno-park works now, Dilijan is the regional financial center, tourism is developed. And now Tigran Sargsyan is engaged in raised issues and settles all the problems. He learnt accidentally that the information about Qajaran was wrong and hit on the table. And what about the Mashtots Park? Yes, of course, he learnt about the problem only after ten days and he will certainly inform President about it”, the newspaper writes.