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My Favorite Food
Today, there are many delicious foods easily available. I sometime wonder how life was in the
ancient past when they did not have ease of access to food as we do today. However, though I can
find food of all kinds in our stores there are foods that stand out as my favorite.
I easily walk past the pizzas, the fluffy pasties, pies, and cream cakes. But when I sit in the restaurant
and see the words oxtail stew, with creamed spinach and potatoes I positively drool.
The Waitron places the crispy warm bread rolls beside me on a white plate. In front of me were
yellow balls of butter. Next, she placed in front of me a bowl of creamed spinach, dark green finely
cut with the white cream and steam coming from it advertising it was freshly cooked. I inhaled the
warm aroma unique to spinach. Beside it was a bowl with smooth white mashed potato. Rich creamy
smooth and firm from the butter and milk that had been beaten into it to add to its flavor and smooth
texture.
Then came the bowl full of oxtail stew. Its rich dark brown color was set off by the white bowl it was
in. The gravy was thick and rich. I could smell the aroma of beef, garlic, and herbs and spices
drifting up from it into my nose. My mouth watered in anticipation.
Now I took the silver spoon and dipped it into the bowl of potato. It smoothly penetrated the firm
fluffy white mound. I lifted the spoon and turned it over on my plate depositing a mound of potato. I
repeated this 3 times. Then using another spoon, I scooped up spinach dripping white sauce and put
it on the plate beside the potato. The dark green Spinach was hot, the white Sauce melted and it
contrasted with the creamy potato. Now after a second helping of spinach I took another larger
spoon. I dipped it into the rich brown stew and stirred it. Then I scooped up a chunky slice of oxtail.
Several other pieces followed that one onto my plate, the rich brown meat, contrasting with the dark
green spinach and creamy white potato. The succulent meat gleaming with a coating of rich gravy
and the aroma of gravy, garlic spinach and potato blending in the steam rising from my plate. I
scooped up gravy from the bowl and trickled it over the white potato catching the scent of red wine. I
broke the roll and spread butter on it and I was ready to eat.
Now the decision where to start, so I bit into the fresh crisp roll and tasted its warm soft texture and
the melting butter. By then I had decided to sample the potato with gravy and the spinach. The potato
was smooth, with a taste of butter over powered with the tangy gravy, its garlic and hint of good red
wine in it. The spinach was a good foil. Smooth with its vegetable texture and plain white sauce it
softened the taste of the gravy. Then I used my fork and removed the succulent meat from the bone.
Its soft texture, fatty feeling in the mouth, the spice wine and garlic in the gravy made it perfect. So I
sat contented at my table eating as much as I could, and more than I should of my favorite food.
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Burj Khalifa – World’s Tallest Building
Living in the 21st century means living in the age of technological wonders—considering, at least,
you are living in a first-world or second-world country. Technological progress manifests itself in the
surroundings of a modern individual, starting from coffee machines and ending up with larger-than-
usual skyscrapers. Speaking of the latter, they have evolved greatly from the times of the Home
Insurance Building in Chicago—the first skyscraper ever built. Today, the most technologically
advanced skyscraper is the famous Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The Burj Khalifa (or how it was called until 2010, Burj Dubai) opened on January 14, 2010. Even
before the building construction was finished, starting from 2007 it had become the highest
skyscraper in the world. Its exact height is 2,722 feet, or 829,8 meters, and it obviously can be seen
from any point in Dubai. The number of floors, however, is a bit fewer than some might expect: Burj
Khalifa totals in 163 floors, which is 16’2” (about 5 meters) for each floor.
Burj Khalifa looks like a stalagmite, which means it resembles vertical minerals growing from cave
floors. Stalagmites usually have a shape of a cone, and so does Burj Khalifa; if you look at it from a
distance, it will remind you of a gigantic sharp cone made of glass and steel.
The most impressive aspect about Burj Khalifa is that it had been planned to be a so-called
“city within the city”; this means inside the tower, you can find parks, alleys, districts,
fountains, and so on. The glass of the tower’s surface always shines, because it is washed every
single day, and the make of concrete of which the tower was built from was invented specifically for
Burj Khalifa. There are three entrances to the tower, because it is so huge that one or two would not
be enough. At the foot of the skyscraper, there is a big artificial lake that measures up to 12 hectares.
Inside, the building is as magnificent as it is from the outside. The interiors were projected by
famous designers—for example, the interior of the Armani hotel, located on the floors from
first to 39th, was designed by Giorgio Armani himself. The air inside Burj Khalifa is conditioned
and flavored—it is said that the flavor was also designed exclusively for the tower; 57 elevators work
24/7 to transport visitors between floors.
Writing about Burj Khalifa is a thankless job. The existence of this building is a miracle itself—
considering how it stands against the winds, gravity, and other natural forces. With a truly
oriental luxurious scope, Burj Khalifa was designed and built to embody the impossible. And one
can bravely state that nothing like this skyscraper has ever been built on Earth before.
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