Kathy A Klaus

Germany's Hannover Zoo had expected a baby gorilla in time for Christmas, but zookeeper Klaus Meyer was surprised that it was a different mother than he had anticipated. The staff hadn't even known the mother, Kathi, was pregnant. Hannover Zoo is part of the European Endangered Species Programme, which aims to save gorillas and other endangered animals from extinction. Almost every member of the ape family is currently listed as endangered or critically endangered on IUCN's Red List. The three biggest threats to apes are hunting, habitat loss, and disease. WATCH:

Cooking with lavender requires balance THE SWEET perfume of lavender smells good enough to eat. Unfortunately, it isn’t always good, no more than perfume itself would hold any culinary appeal when rubbed on ducks or infused in cocktails or baked into shortbread. “It’s like eating soap,” says food writer Tara Austen Weaver. Weaver is comfortable cooking with plum vinegar or ribbons of sorrel or even foraged dandelions. But lavender? “It’s just wrong.” Plenty of consumers agree. New customers are often leery of sampling the lavender flavor of Dry Soda, says company CEO Sharelle Klaus. Usually, it’s because they’ve had a bad experience with lavender in food — “which is easy to do,” she says. She knows firsthand. It took her 1,300 tries — “I’m not joking . . . I have all my notes from back then” — to get the soft, soothing flavor she had envisioned. Her earliest attempts were astringent; medicinal. “It was so hard to get right. The only one I cried over!” Luckily, Klaus did get it right. The final version of lavender soda is one of Dry’s best sellers. And there’s hope for others who love the sweet, floral qualities of the herb enough to liberate them from the garden or cosmetics counter. Generally, says Seattleite Kathy Gehrt, author of “Discover Cooking With Lavender,” the problem in lavender cooking is excess. “What I tell people is, if you have a really well-seasoned meal, you don’t say, ‘Oh, I can taste the salt.’ If you can call it out and go, ‘My gosh, there’s lavender in this,’ it’s typically too much.” Gehrt has a few techniques for success: First, see above. “Use less than you think might be appropriate until you get it where you like it.” Then: For savory dishes, Gehrt dry-roasts lavender buds as her first step, a trick she learned from local culinary instructor Kris Dews. “Put them in a dry skillet over high heat for about a minute, almost like you do when you toast nuts. It brin

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