Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental. Daniel Boulud ancestralcookfrench Change image and share on social
Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had. Robert Lacey abdarabiaaziz share on social
Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces. Joe Biden allowamericanarabia Change image and share on social
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud arabiachangeconnect Change image and share on social
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. Al-Waleed bin Talal arabiabondagecontract share on social
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence. Nicholas Kristof africaarabiaasia share on social
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches. Nicholas Kristof arabiabanchurch Change image and share on social
Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. David Ignatius arabiabackbeset Change image and share on social
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. James Buchan arabiaclaimmonopoly Change image and share on social
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn. James Howard Kunstler americaarabiabarn share on social
