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The Ethiopian meal: Lalibela 2008-10-14 18:39:09 At university, I was fortunate enough to have a lecturer who spent nine months a year doing fieldwork in Ethiopia. In one memorable lecture, she described sharing a meal with a whole Ethiopian
village—speaking not only of a rich and aromatic cuisine, but also of the fun she had dining with the whole community. [...]
Bonus meal: The British gastropub 2008-10-06 15:22:57 To me, “gastropub” is almost a form of British
cuisine in its own right. In my hometown of Toronto, a city of many restaurants and food snobs, I’ve been to plenty of bars that care about what they serve. But the food at London’s gastropubs, where the movement began, is unique, and uniquely British—traditional, pricier [...] Read more:Bonus
Readings: The disgustingness of Mongolian breakfasts 2008-09-25 17:34:35 Wu doesn't sound easily disgusted--he's apparently a pro at gagging down deep fried scorpion, duck brains, snake blood and semi-live octopus tentacles. But even he had trouble with the acidic, rock-hard cheese, endless mutton and fermented horse milk of Mongolia.
The Burmese meal: Mandalay 2008-09-23 13:28:38 This will sound horrible, but it was the Burma cyclone that inspired our Burmese meal in May. I knew nothing about Burma, I realised, aside from the anger-inducing stories that had been coming out of the country for months; they were now peaking, with grim post-cyclone photographs in every paper. So when a visit [...]
Spotted: Singapore chili crab 2008-09-21 14:40:38 Ever since I heard about last year’s Singapore
Chilli Crab Festival, I’ve wondered about the dish and why it deserves its own beer company-sponsored two-day celebration. Matthew, Karol and I headed to this year’s festival on the last weekend of August, and found out that the crab in question is very different from any crab [...]
The (South) Korean meal: Kaya 2008-09-11 16:50:42 One of my first encounters with Korean
food was the sight of a wondrous, clattering walnut-cake machine steaming up the windows of a small bakery in Toronto’s Koreatown. As a child, I had a brief fascination with food machines, drawing up blueprints for all manner of Heath Robinson contraptions—so this walnut creature made a [...] Read more:South
Readings: UK delicacies 2008-09-04 13:28:30 The Guardian has a list of 10 regional UK dishes and where to eat them, which, as a transplanted Canadian, I was very interested to see. London is nowhere on the list. Doesn’t our pie and mash count?
(For the record, I have had amazing Yorkshire puddings at The Lord Stanley and pretty good Northern Irish [...]
The Swedish meal: Fika 2008-08-08 16:21:31 I used to think that my only shot at eating Swedish
food outside Sweden would be through a plate of lingonberry-topped Swedish meatballs consumed in the cafeteria of some suburban IKEA. So I was thrilled when Matthew announced that a Swedish café and restaurant called Fika had opened down the street from [...]
The Ghanaian meal: The Gold Coast 2008-10-29 17:00:38 Luckily, the Ghanaian menu at the Gold Coast
Bar and Restaurant was completely worth an epic, rain-drenched Saturday night journey to zone six. Otherwise, I would have been in trouble. The restaurant was my suggestion. I’d found it almost at random—it was the first Google hit for “London Ghanaian restaurant”—and immediately decided we had to [...]
Readings: The kimchi crisis 2008-10-21 19:01:49 Oh no! One of our favourite foods has been hit by the economic downturn, according the the BBC. Despite kimchi’s status as a South Korean cuisine staple worthy of its own museum in Seoul, a kimchi trade deficit has reached $77.3 million over the last three years thanks to demand for cheaper Chinese-made product. There’s [...]
The Japanese Meal: Asakusa 2008-11-20 16:50:29 As a sushi lover, I was surprised to discover a few years ago that sushi was not, until recently, a food for everyday consumption in Japan. Traditionally it would be saved for special occasions; while more popular today, it is still rarely prepared at home. This little nugget of information raised an immediate question [...] Read more:Japanese
Food fight: Toronto 2008-11-15 12:15:36 Sorry for the lack of new posts—Andrea and I have been away in Toronto
, stuffing ourselves at Phở hung and suburban all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants, and delaying the next group meal until tonight (we’re doing Japanese!). In the meantime, I thought I would compare London’s fare with that of Toronto, a major competitor for the world [...] Read more:fight
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