Weekend Edition 26/05/2012
Pascale Harter with the pick of FOOC stories from around the world. Including: cheese in China, a Somali mogul's Bentley in Dubai, no schadenfreude in Turkey and the weekly grocery bill in Argentina.
Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition:
Laura Trevelyan takes a nervous drive through a Mexican town that's a hub of international sex trafficking;
Jonathan Head explains why Turkey's now asking: do we need the EU, or does it need us more?
Ray Kershaw finds Argentines are beginning to see their weekly grocery shop as 'a lottery you can't win';
Mary Harper takes a spin in a Somali businessman's blingy Bentley through the glittering streets of Dubai;
David Belton meets the Amish communities refusing to abide by the New York state construction code - no 'devils on the wall' for them;
and Fuchsia Dunlop gets an unexpected lesson in China's Yunnan province - on how to make cheese, or 'milk cake' as it's known locally.
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