The Radar: Lost Cities, Kimchi Crisis, Foreign Groceries

• The San Francisco-based Global Heritage Fund has just released a report listing nearly 200 historic sites which are threatened, and named 12 that are are the verge of destruction. Among those listed are Nineveh, in northern Iraq, the city of Ani on the Turkey-Armenian border, and Hisham's Palace in Palestine. The report notes that "in the first decade of the 21st century, we have lost or seriously impaired hundreds of our most precious historic sites--the physical record of our human civilization...Many have survived thousands of years, only to be lost in this generation--on our watch." [CNN]

• Is Korea experiencing a kimchi crisis? Rising cabbage costs have caused restaurants to offer the side dish at a premium, which the Atlantic Wire compares to charging people for ketchup. Even worse, many for many families, the cost is too much for them to make their annual batch of kimchi in the fall. [Atlantic via Gadling]

• If you're hankering for a taste of some faraway land, check out Jaunted's enticing weekly feature: Foreign Grocery Friday, where they discuss the merits of your favorite traveling treats.
  

Photo: A ruined church in Ani, Turkey, once called the "City of 1001 Churches." Associated Press. From the Turkey photo gallery at National Geographic Travel online.

Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/10/the-radar-lost-cities-kimchi-c.html