Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Turkey is Soporific
Oog, why did I decide to leave this until after dinner? Good night, everyone, hope your turkeys were excellent, and the mall traffic is good to you tomorrow.
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A Dear John a Long Time Coming
I did try to tell him “You’ll go bankrupt in that place! The noxious fumes emitted in the smugness reaction when the Seattle ego makes contact with the self-congratulatory pricing structure will kill you! Safeway’s good enough! You just have to eat things quickly!”
American Digest - Dear Whole Foods: We’re through. It’s not me. It’s [...]
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Newman’s Own
We went to Safeway today for a jar of tomato sauce. We weren’t the only ones.
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The ninme Influence Grows Down Under
I give Brett McS credit.
Curtsy: Brett McS.
SMH - Starbucks closes 61 shops, cuts 700 jobs
ALMOST 700 employees of the coffee chain Starbucks will lose their jobs on Sunday after the company yesterday announced the closure of 61 of its 84 Australian stores. Starbucks employees were told of the closures during [...]
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Health of Communities, Young Lungs
Today’s Cranky Telegraph Theme is The Trouble with Pubs:
Telegraph Blogs - The real reason pubs are dying: the totalitarian smoking ban, by Gerald Warner
So, when we learn that publicans are selling only 14 million pints of beer a day, compared with 15.6 million a year ago; when the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) [...]
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Red Hair: Just Like Growing Up Indian in 1960s Glaswegian Tenement Building
An excerpt from Hardeep Singh Kohli’s forthcoming book, Indian Takeaway:
The perception of India was that all Indians were smelly, smelling, presumably, of curry. The fact that Britain later adopted Indian food as its own was an irony lost on Charlie McTeer, the celebrated school thug, as he spent the entire day with a [...]
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Don’t Disturb the Blueberries From the Black Lagoon!
Wheat & Weeds - It’s Alive!
Have your speakers on for an entertaining detail.
I love pie. And are those doves in the crust?
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Kebabs, CTM, and Canned Puddings… How Can Cuisine Like This Be Bad?
There’s a kebab/chips place above the Tottenham Court Road tube station. If it isn’t there anymore (and I don’t see how it couldn’t be, unless a Saudi sheik decided he wanted to transport the whole thing to his pool house, which, to be honest, if I had a Saudi sheik’s money, I would do), I’ll [...]
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Thank God For a Cuppa Something Decent
Telegraph - Cheers for the cup of tea
Without tea, the Empire might never have been. It was tea that suppressed the soldiers’ hunger pangs when bivouacked in far-flung parts; tea that, once boiled, cut down the incidence of disease; and tea that stimulated much of the trade between Britain and Asia that tied [...]
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Wok Blogging
A new installment in The Kitchen Adventures of nin.
Before going down to California the other week I ordered an electric wok from Amazon, hoping it would make it here from Brooklyn before I left. Alas, it got here the day I left, and Peter had to get it redelivered to his work, where, hilariously, it [...]
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Impenetrable Farming Practices Finally Come in Handy
The Times - Japan’s silos key to relieving rice shortage
The United States and Japan are poised to strike a deal that will remove one of the most widely reviled distortions in global rice markets and could send prices plummeting in the coming weeks. The move, which will flood the market [...]
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Let the Crime Lords Eat Foie Gras
BBC - Chicago overturns foie gras ban
Didier Durand, one of the Chicago chefs who formed a movement to end the ban, called the decision “fabulous”. “All of us are so excited,” he said told reporters outside his restaurant while holding his duck Nicolai - named after French President Nicolas Sarkozy. [...]
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Three Squares and Pickled Onions
The Sunday Times - Feed the customers, or they’ll slash all the seats, by Jeremy Clarkson
Last weekend, as I spiralled round an endless succession of identical ring roads in the Midlands, looking for somewhere to have lunch, I realised with a heavy heart that the global food shortage had reached Britain. Quite simply, [...]
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Latest Canadian Human Rights Scandal: Free the Marlboro Man!
Macleans - Why tobacco is evil but booze is just fine - FROM THE EDITORS
Political science isn’t just something you study in university. Politicians have their own way of interpreting scientific evidence that tends to be light on facts and method, and heavy on emotion, opinion and self-interest. The result being, the science [...]
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