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Add ВЅ cup water, bring to a simmer and cook until meat has absorbed liquid, about 5 minutes more. Add 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, ВЅ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, ВЅ teaspoon smoked paprika, Вј teaspoon cayenne pepper, Вј teaspoon ground coriander and Вј cup tomato paste. Cook, stirring and breaking up meat with a spoon, until well browned, 8-10 minutes. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. It includes this recipe for a spicy, ranch-dressing-dolloped paper-bag version contributed by Kristen Kish, winner of Season 10 of BravoвЂ™s 'Top Chef.' Take it along whether youвЂ™re headed to a stadium or a 50-yard-line seat in front of the TV. Gina HamadeyвЂ™s cookbook 'ВЎBuenos Nachos!' (Dovetail, September) will keep you crunching all the way to Super Bowl Sunday. Come January or February, during the wildebeest birthing season, it will follow the herds to the southern Serengeti. ThatвЂ™s when the herds head back to the Serengeti, and there are fewer people around to spoil the views.' As for where to bunk down close to the action, the new luxe mobile camp Roving Bushtops (pictured), now in the central Serengeti, does its own migrating. Nina Wennersten, of the travel company Hippo Creek Safaris (), counsels patience: 'Wait until late September or October. Though the timing varies year to year, the migration typically kicks off in May, after East AfricaвЂ™s rainy season ends, which conveniently enough, allows a stampede of summer vacationers to descend with their telephoto lenses. As far as bloody spectacles go, 'Game of Thrones' has nothing on the animal kingdom. Case in point: the Great Wildlife Migration, when more than a million wildebeest and zebra make their annual round-trip from TanzaniaвЂ™s Serengeti to the grasslands of KenyaвЂ™s Masai Mara, across the crocodile-infested Mara River. The pesky thing about so-called wonders of the world is that people want to see them crowds are inevitable. At the parade, which rolls through the French Quarter, with all its hidden gardens and Anne Rice-inspiring alleyways, participants with skeleton face-paint and monster-themed floats rival Mexico CityвЂ™s Day of the Dead for eerie eye-candy. 22) and Voodoo Music + Arts Experience festival (Oct. The two biggest annual Halloween events are the Krewe of Boo parade (Oct. And this year, thanks to new restaurant and hotel openings, New Orleans is even more equipped to bring weary visitors back from the dead.

A slew of haunted houses, vampire tours and ghost-themed excursions run year-round, and a popular bumper sticker boasts a rare skill: 'New Orleans: We Put the FUN in Funeral.' So itвЂ™s no surprise that locals excel at Halloween-specific festivities, which begin soon after SeptemberвЂ™s lethargy-inducing humidity lifts by mid-October, the city is back in party mode.

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Read the full story: A Trip Back to Oxford-Minus the Homework Read moreДЇew cities revel in the macabre and dearly departed as New Orleans does. Had the digital age eradicated the old traditions, I wondered? Would there be an artisanal coffee shop on every corner? Twenty years later, IвЂ™d returned to take a nostalgic tour, because you donвЂ™t have to be a student to access the universityвЂ™s quadrangles and cloisters (check ox.ac.uk for details). IвЂ™d started at Oxford University in the fall of 1996, when the wisteria was turning gold as if determined to match the stone buildings. I was once an 11th-hour note-crammer, and as I surveyed them through the window of the Old Bank Hotel, between mouthfuls of breakfast kipper, I felt a mixture of deep-seated dread and relief that IвЂ™d never have to wear a white carnation again. Their attire was identical: Every student wore full academic dress, or subfusc, as it is known here-black suits and white bow ties on the men black skirts and velvet bows for women everyone in gowns, mortarboards and a carnation buttonhole. It was exam season in Oxford, and cadres of students patrolled the High Street, a few still cramming notes, and consequently dodging lampposts, as they neared the Examination Schools.