We refer to offering such delightfully calorie-ful recipes as these desserts, to a readership made up of ladies who love to eat and shouldn’t.

Born in Hengshan, Shensi, in 1891, he and Liu Chih-tan built the Party there, and its isolated Red base became a sanctuary for the Communists at the end of the Long March.

The city of Kashgar is built in an angle between two branches of the Kazūl River, which join one another a few miles east of the city. The Kazūl, or Kazūl Yaman, comes from Mosh (a ruined place towards the Tarik Mountains), its other branch, the northern one, is called the Toman. The united stream flows eastward, passing at 40 miles a small town called Faizabad, and after receiving the Aksoo stream joins the Yarkund River.

, II.12: Epicurus makes the Gods, bright-shining, transparent and perflable, placed as it were betweene two Forts, betweene two Worlds […].