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Page 01 Dec 31.Indd WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 inside Creativity, novelty SPACE ruled the roost in • SpaceX on mission Bollywood impossible? P | 5 P | 8-9 ARCHAEOLOGY • Hammurabi: King of Babylon For Slovaks, it is the stuff of Marcel Proust’s madeleine P | 6 recollections: a scrumptious, crescent-shaped pastry filled WHEELS with walnuts or poppy seeds that • The biggest winter energy triggers a rush of memories. myth: That you need to idle your car before driving P | 7 HEALTH • Food and medication insecurity tied to poor diabetes control P | 11 TECHNOLOGY • The best Android apps of 2014 A TASTE OF THE P | 11 LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly used Arabic words PAST and their meanings P | 13 2 PLUS | WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 COVER STORY Workers prepare Slovakia's traditional delicacy pastry Bratislava Rolls filled with poppy and nuts (dating to the 16th century) at FantastiCO pastry shop in Bratislava. By Vera Cosculluela or Slovaks, it is the stuff of Marcel Proust’s madeleine Bratislava croissants recollections: a scrumptious, Fcrescent-shaped pastry filled with walnuts or poppy seeds that trig- gers a rush of memories. All but forgotten under the dec- offer a taste of the ades and drabness of communism, the tasty Bratislavske rozky — or bajgel, as they are also called — are making a comeback. Slovak pedestrians munch away on the traditional treat at cafes and past for Slovaks snack shops or just walking around the narrow cobblestoned streets in the old town of Bratislava. The reward? A reminder of the rich history and vibrant cultural melange of this capital cut through by the Danube at the heart of Europe. The cousin of the French croissant, the Italian cornetto and the Austrian Kipferl, the bajgel harks back as far as the 16th century but its exact prov- enance remains shrouded in mystery. Turkish, German or Slovak? For expert Sandor Pap, it is to the residents of Bratislava, known as Pressburg under the Austro- Hungarian Empire of the late 19th- early 20th century, that the crescent cookie owes its beginnings. “Back then, people didn’t care about questions of nationality or faith,” said the employee of the state-funded Bratislavske Rozky Association. Case in point: the historic Schwappach pastry shop, an institu- tion that has been around for cen- turies, goes by a German name but refers to its croissants by yet another term — their Hungarian designation, Pozsonyi kifli. PLUS | WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 3 The bakery began churning out the treats over Christmas 1785, when mas- ter pastry chef Wilhelm Scheuermann included them in a holiday window dis- play to much fanfare. ‘Recount their childhood’ - Today, the Bratislavske rozky label comes with strict criteria. “The croissants must be marbled and golden, meaning you have to brush on two layers of egg yolk. Their fill- ing must make up 30 percent of the at pastry shops and cafes after the fall Austro-Hungarian Empire countries The croissants must be total weight and they have to be baked of the Berlin Wall in 1989. — Austria or Hungary — could just as chemical-free,” said Eva Bolemant, “When we sell them at public events, well have claimed it: Pressburg, alias marbled and golden, whom the association employs to mar- like now at the Christmas markets, Bratislava, lay at the crossroads, right ket the sweets. older people stop by and recount their on the border with the two “modern” meaning you have to “The shape varies with the filling, childhood memories,” said Bolemant. states. brush on two layers of allowing clients to tell them apart: “And how their grandmothers made Bratislava’s croissants are now those with walnuts are in the shape of the pastries. But they regret that they starting to make a name for them- egg yolk. Their filling a C, while the poppy seed variety look no longer have the recipe.” selves outside Slovakia. One store, the like a horseshoe or U.” While Pap and Bolemant insist there FantastiCo, a small but trendy glass- must make up 30 The pastries were widely avail- is no official original recipe and every windowed corner shop that makes only percent of the total able until the end of World War II. family uses its own, there is a version Bratislavske rozky which are touted as But communism’s command economy patented by the city’s well-known mas- among the city’s best, began selling the weight and they have to shuttered many family pastry shops ter pastry chef Vojtech Szemes. rolls last year on an “E-shop”. and the original recipe got lost in the The pastries gained their European Orders quickly came in by the doz- be baked chemical-free shuffle. Union-legislated “traditional spe- ens. Today, they arrive in the thou- Bratislava’s croissants survived in cialities guaranteed” trademark sands, with more and more coming home baking until they could resurface in Slovakia. Yet two of the former from abroad. AFP 4 PLUS | WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 CAMPUS/COMMUNITY Former students of Birla Public School celebrating their second Alumni Reunion at Basant Kumar Birla Auditorium recently. Unsung Hero After being honoured with a runner-up award in the Unsung Hero category at the recent Hotelier Middle East Awards, Hezron Jeremiah Onyango, laundry attend- ant at the InterContinental Doha The City, was person- Jewel Advertising (JAD) annual team building activities was held recently. Abdulla Kutty, General ally presented a certificate of recognition by Philippine Manager, honoured employees who completed two years. The AGM, Ruknudin Abdulla, introduced Ambassador to Qatar Crescente R Relacion for donat- ‘Sign-up 2 Lead’ campaign to build awareness among local business and community about significance ing his entire one month’s salary to help the families of a scientifically designed and engineered signage. Seen in the picture is the Jewel Advertising Team of his fellow workers from the Philippines victimised in their black corporate colour. by typhoon Haiyan. The presentation of the certificate of recognition was held on December 17 during an all- colleague meeting at InterContinental Doha The City. IIS organises teachers’ workshop deal Indian school organised a Itwo-day workshop on Life Skills and Attitude and Values for teach- ers recently. Forty teachers from different departments attended the workshop. Kunal Sikri, a resource person from S Chand, an empanelled agency of CBSE, conducted the two sessions. Principal Syed Shoukath Ali also attended the workshop. Anwar Sadath welcomed the gathering and introduced the resource person. Teachers atending the workshop. Sikri emphasised that hearing and practising life skills enable the indi- life. He added that attitudes and val- to determine the qualities of life. The Zemina Sulfikkar proposed the vote viduals to deal effectively with the ues are two different dimensions in workshop was a great success and it of thanks. Khatija T C coordinated demands and challenges of everyday the life of students and it helps them served its utility. the workshop. The Peninsula SPACE PLUS | WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 5 Mission impossible? By Christian Davenport the landing pad. open up new markets and new possibilities. While But stabilising such a large rocket coming back this first attempt should be looked at as mission nd now for Elon Musk’s next trick. The from a great distance at high speeds isn’t easy — “like improbable, if it does succeed, it will be historic.” billionaire entrepreneur is on the verge of trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand The attempt is part of Musk’s plan to develop the attempting an audacious manoeuvre that in the middle of a wind storm,” Musk said. technology needed to colonize Mars. There are “no Acould make his next space flight notable And rocket science is full of complexity and chal- runways on Mars,” as he has said, meaning rockets not just for the takeoff but for the landing. lenges that can foil even the best-laid plans. The would have to land using the thrust in their engines. Typically, rocket boosters have a few minutes in launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to ferry cargo “You really have to get good at propulsive landing the fiery, 3-2-1 spotlight, propelling the rest of the to the International Space Station was originally if you want to go somewhere other than Earth,” he stages into the great beyond before petering out and scheduled for last Friday but was postponed because said at the MIT forum. crashing unceremoniously into the sea. of a technical issue with the rocket, officials said. SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, is only But Musk thinks that ditching one of the most If successful, it would be a significant achievement, 12 years old but has grown quickly and has scored expensive parts of the rocket is an unnecessary waste. said Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial some key victories in a field long dominated by large, SpaceX, his start-up space company, has designed Space Flight Federation. traditional contractors. It was the first commercial a rocket he hopes will be able to return to Earth A reusable rocket “would change the game in space company hired by NASA to resupply the space sta- softly on the bull’s-eye of a barge floating in the launch,” he said. “It would bring the cost down of tion. Earlier this year, it won, along with Boeing, a Atlantic Ocean. launching things to space dramatically and would contract to ferry astronauts to the space station. Musk, the founder of Paypal and Tesla Motors, said And it is suing the Air Force to allow it to compete the odds of pulling off such an unprecedented feat for contracts to launch military satellites into space.
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