Posted in Chorizo, Christmas, Food Commentary, Madrid, Olive Oil, Spain, bread, breakfast, castille, cheese, egg, ham, holiday, holidays, iberico, jamon, salami, sausage, tomato, tortilla, tourism, travel, weight on Dec 17th, 2008
It’s nearly a year now since we were in Madrid, and while during that time we’ve managed to shed some of the excess poundage we gained there, we’ve lost none of our longing to be back there. And, it’s a strange thing about longing that all your memories become more vivid, and you remember even [...]
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Posted in British, England, Fergus Henderson, Food Commentary, Gabrielle Hamilton, London, Prune, Restaurant Review, animals, dining, duck, eating, family, holiday, lunch, mutton, parsley, pigs, podcast, restaurant, tourism, travel, trotter on Dec 3rd, 2008
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Since Amy and I have been together I think we’ve only spent two Thanksgivings in America – not because we don’t enjoy turkey, but because it is often the cheapest time of the year to leave the country as many expat Americans are returning home. And true to form, this year, despite a sizable delay [...]
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Posted in Food Commentary, France, Lillet, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beverage, cafe, drink, gin, history, martini, vodka on Nov 25th, 2008
These days, it seems something is always the new something else. You know, Thursday’s the new Friday, brown’s the new black, Palin’s the new devil, Obama’s the new Messiah, etc. But to me, for example, comparing the pain and anguish at dragging myself from bed on a Friday morning after a few drinks the night before, [...]
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Posted in Canada, Food Commentary, French, Montreal, Restaurant Review, butter, cornichons, cream, death, dining, eating, embarrassment, fried, fritters, indulgent meal, mushrooms, offal, spinach, tongue, tourism, travel, trotter, unhealthy, vinaigrette on Oct 21st, 2008
Gentle readers, please sympathize with me, for I, like a man who’s been dining exclusively on centipedes, have the bitter taste of defeat in my mouth. That this humiliation and defeat arrived, to twist a metaphor, at the hands of nothing more sinister than a pig’s foot, has only served to exacerbate these feelings of embarrassment and self-loathing.
Those of you [...]
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Posted in Beach, Brazil, Brazilian, Food Commentary, Portuguese, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beverage, brandy, cachaça, culture, drink, language, lime, soccer, sugar on Oct 7th, 2008
When you think of Brazil what do you think of? Is it the lazy sway of coconut palms, golden beaches, beautiful, bronzed people, a back-drop of Sugar Loaf Mountain, and soundtrack of relaxing bossa nova? Is it a throbbing samba rhythm, huge, garish paper-mache heads, and crowds of people dancing at carnival? Is it the magnificent [...]
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We recently invited you to tell us what your top five flavors of potato crisps/chips are, and we were, frankly, amazed that so many of you did. Not only that, we were surprised by the variety of flavors you selected. It seems that there is a wide world of taste out there and we are [...]
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Posted in British, England, Food Commentary, Pub, alcohol, beer, chips, crisps, crispy, flavor, flavour, fried, salt, vinegar on Sep 25th, 2008
Those of you who have watched or read Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, will be familiar with the idea of top fives. In the movie, the main character (played by John Cusack) is a record shop owner, who spends most of the movie revisiting the demise of his past relationships, and in so doing, constantly re-imagines [...]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Gourmet, Windsor, animals, blood, cat, death, food magazines, goat, halal, slaughter, squirrel on Jul 15th, 2008
Warning: some readers may find the subject matter of this post disturbing.
An article in the latest issue of Gourmet magazine addressed the oft-ignored, but very real, dilemma of the carnivore that is the slaughter of animals for human consumption. We touched on this issue briefly a while back in a post on Provencal rabbit stew as [...]
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