Saturday, June 6, 2009

Vegan Ricotta Ravioli with Basil Pine Nut Pesto


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Ingredients:
Pine Nut Basil Pesto
2 cups basil
⅓ cup pine nuts
3 cloves garlic
¾ teaspoon salt
Fresh ground black pepper
½ cup olive oil

Ravioli Pasta Dough
1⅔ cups flour
½ cup chickpea flour
½ teaspoon salt
⅔ cup water

Tofu Cashew Ricotta
1 pound firm tofu
½ cup cashews
Fresh parsley, chopped
Fresh basil, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice
⅓ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
Fresh ground black pepper
2 tablespoon olive oil
Agave (to taste)

Home a film by Yann Arthus Bertrand

by sidonie June 5, 2009

Walking in the footsteps of Al Gore, Yann Arthus-Bertrand sign a film Home with artistic and activist who has a global distribution to warn about the threat climate.

Unable to ignore Home, the new documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. On the occasion of World Environment Day and to reach as many people as possible, his fate Friday SOS together in a film, on France 2 television on big screens (the Champ de Mars Paris, London and New York), on the Internet (YouToube) and DVD. A general mobilization to save the planet, supported by Nicolas Sarkozy: "This is a beautiful film with great images, a French production which we can be proud because it will be distributed free of charge."

Produced by Luc Besson (producer of the trilogy Taxi) and EuropaCorp, Home was funded by François-Henri Pinault, the owner of the global luxury group PPR, which has disbursed 12 million euros. It required more than two and a half years of filming with a helicopter in over 50 countries and resulted in 500 hours of rush, which decreased to 2 hours to film and 90 minutes for television.

"The beauty is food for thought"

Distributed in 126 countries (Glenn Close provides the comments in English and Spanish with Salma Hayek), the advocacy retrace the history of the planet and humanity by playing on the contrast between the beauty of the footage of the sky high definition and severity of threats to the Earth. On the one hand, a mother bear that comes out of crunchy water, followed by his two grandchildren on the other, melting the ice that promises to lead to disruptions in supply chain.

Even the images of polluted sites is a magnificent breathtaking. "The beauty creates emotion and thinking," says Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The message carried by this film is extremely important because it highlights the question of survival. Without realizing it, molecule after molecule, we have upset the balance of the earth climate. "And to emphasize the urgency of the situation:" There are more than ten years for humanity to reverse the trend .

Sponsors famous, including Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize and author of "An Inconvenient Truth, have provided scientific caution to the film. But Yann Arthus-Bertrand has encountered hostility from some countries, disturbed by his probing camera. Syria and Dubai did not wish to open their borders. India has retained half of its film and China has lifted its censorship in extremis. Argentina has adopted a weeks under a false pretext. Evidence that the photographer is often green finger where it hurts.

The movie "Home", showing the planet in distress, tumbling in a free distribution in 126 countries in film, television and internet. The French Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer hit the Earth from the sky, hopes to convene consciences at the bedside of the planet.

Drought, urbanization, water shortages, pollution, competition for oil and fossil fuels, climate change, each subject was filmed from the sky, the shooting mode preferred by the author. The commentary is scientifically impeccable. It was submitted to Al Gore, former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and Lester Brown, pope of ecology in the United States.

"In 20 years the world will be completely different: how will there be a world without oil, with a completely different climate? We must get out of denial." "To contemplate what else should we help them to respond" assène photographer-filmmaker, who hopes "aware of a massive, hard and brutal."

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