Okay, three things:

1. Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Snuff, has come out. I'll be reading it on my iPad for the rest of the night.

2. In my latest article at Ars Aromatica, I share some photos of my Shanghai ( Read more... )

THIS IS THE BEST LAMB VINDALOO I HAVE EVER TASTED.

Thank God for Sherpa's.

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Bought half a dozen lovely fresh figs from a guy near the Metro exit at South Shaanxi Road, and decided to make salad. Went to the supermarket in Grand Gateway for uncrushed walnuts, parma ham, buffalo mozzarella, arcadia honey, lemon, and black peppercorns ( Read more... )

Shanghai's weirdest foods.

Really? They all look normal to me. I have about half of them pretty regularly. I guess that goes to show how Shanghainese I still am at heart.

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Stolen from lizbee:

Bold everything you've eaten, italic and bold things you've eaten once and never again, italic things you never intend to eat.

1. Fresh fish
2. Lobster
3. Steak
4. Thai food
5. Chinese food
6. Ice cream
7. Pizza
8. Crab
9. Curry
10. Prawns
11. Moreton Bay Bugs
12. Clam chowder
13. Barbecues
14. Pancakes
15. Pasta
16. Mussels
17. ( Read more... )

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Via dorukai, Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali talk about food & sex:

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Mayonnaise = GROSS

Dijonnaise = AWESOME

Fresh cut pineapple,
strawberries,
and camembert.

It's World Vegetarian Week, and Bruce Friedrich give top 10 reasons why you should go vegetarian:
'A recent United Nations report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow concludes that eating meat is "one of the ... most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." In just one example, eating ( Read more... )