FRANK SERPICO

By Antón Tendero

Francesco Vincent Serpico was born on April 14th 1936. He is an American New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer retired who become famous testifying against police corruption in 1971.

Serpico was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest child of Italian immigrants from Marigliano, in Naples. His parents were Vincenzo and Maria Giovanna Serpico. When he was 18, he enroled in the United States Army and spent two years in Korea. Later, he worked as a part-time private investigator and as a youth counselor.

In 1959, he joined the NYPD. He worked for the New York City Police Department for twelve years and then for the Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI) for two years. Serpico was later assigned to work against corruption.

Cookies recipe

By Helena López Fortuny

Ingredients:

150g of flour

100g of butter

70g of sugar

3 spoons of milk

Steps:

1- Heat the oven.

2- Put all ingredients in a bowl.

3- Mix it all by hand and make a ball with the mixture.

4- Spread a little bit of flour on the table and knead the mixture.

5- Make the cookie shapes with a baking tin.

6- Put it all in the oven.

7- Leave it for 15 minutes inside the very hot oven.

8- Take them out of the oven, and then... You can eat your own cookies!!!!!

How to make crêpes

By Àlex Santomà

Ingredients:

- 4 tablespoons of flour

- A trickle of milk

- A teaspoon of sugar

- 1 or 2 eggs

Steps:

- Take the egg(s) and put them in a bowl.

- In the same bowl, add 1 teaspoon of sugar.

- Then, add 4 tablespoons of flour.

- Finally, keep adding milk until you can see that the batter is neither liquid nor solid, but somewhere between the two. (You will be able to make more than one crêpe with this quantity of batter).

- Then, heat a frying pan and put some butter in it to prevent the crêpe from getting burnt.

- When the butter and the frying pan are heated, put some batter in it.

- With a spatula, check that the crêpe does not get burnt.

- When the batter is solid, turn it over.

- Then, wait until the two parts of the crêpe are browned, and put the crêpe on a plate.

- Finally, put ingredients inside the crêpe (chocolate, cheese, jam, etc) and that's all! You are now ready to eat the crêpe!

Yogurt cake

By Joana Roig

For eight people

Ingredients

2 yogurts

4 eggs

3 yogurt containers filled with sugar

1 yogurt container filled with oil

4.5 yogurt containers filled with flour

1 packet of baking powder

grated lemon rind (optional)

"Colacao" (optional)

A little butter

- Beat the eggs.

- Mix the yogurts with the eggs.

- Add to the mixture 3 yogurt containers filled with sugar. After that, add the 4.5 yogurt containers filled with flour, the container with oil and the packet of baking powder.

- Mix all these ingredients.

- Clean one lemon and grate its rind, or put in a bit of "Colacao".

- Heat the oven to 180º (5-10 minutes).

- Put the pastry into a container covered with tinfoil and a little butter.

- Put the cake in the oven for 45 minutes-1 hour (more or less).

- If you want, you can decorate the cake with "lacasitos", icing sugar, jam, hot chocolate, etc...

Nostradamus

By Oliver Afonso

Nostradamus was a monk who lived in the 15th century. He was born in 1503 and died in 1566, after the king of France ordered his death. He worked as a medical and astrological consultant.

He was able to see the future and he wrote down all his visions in the book Nostradamus’ Prediction”. Most of his prophecies turned out to be true.

Many people have tried to understand Nostradamus’ predictions but nobody knows whether they are all true or not – this is still a mystery. His followers have insisted that he predicted a great number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atomic bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11th attacks against the World Trade Center. His detractors, however, see these predictions as examples of selective thinking and find nothing paranormal in them.

Autochthonous species of Menorca

By Clara Castellote

The red cow:

The name comes from its colour. It is similar to other species of Mediterranean cows. It has red skin, its head is small and short and has no horns. These cows weigh between 400 and 450 kilograms, while the bulls weigh between 700 and 800 kilograms. It does not give much milk, the Fresian cow produces more.

The Menorcan horse:

This has black skin. It is docile, well-behaved and placid. It is a very obedient animal, stronger and bigger that the normal horse. It is a good animal for working.

Menorca has one very important festival, that of Sant Joan, and horses play an important part in these festivals.

The Menorcan hen:

This has black and bright-green feathers and big white ears. It weighs between 3 and 3.5 kilograms. These hens lay only 100 or 120 eggs every year; these are white and weigh around 60 grams. Its meat is not very good. There are other types of hen in Menorca but the typical one is in danger of extinction.