I haven't written in so long, that updating livejournal about the ticino, brussels, and everything else has become so daunting, that I don't want to write..oh the irony.

The weather here has been unusually bad and cold and wet for the season. So much so that there wasn't much point in leaving the house and that people started turning the heating ( Read more... )

1. I'm at the end of the world. There's no bus on weekends. When I look out of the window there's a field. It's a forest behind the house, garden out front and the next neighbour is a few dozen metres away. Yet here, where i don't even have cell phone reception there are four secure wlans my computer can detect. weird.

2. I was born in Styria, grew ( Read more... )

Taken from Chocolate and Zucchini

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you’ve eaten
3. Italicize what you've eaten and hated
4. Underline ones you have no idea what they are (I looked them up in Wikipedia or stole

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I'm not going to post about the convention too much - I had a blast and it was great to meet all the bookcrossers again that I hadn't seen since Frankfurt as well as some new faces. Everyone else has already said it better than me :-) I won't put up a huge picture post either. ( So sorry about that, ( Read more... )

I went to the museum on Wednesday. The exhibition was on food design. It was smaller than I'd expected and some of the exhibition material, which consisted of perishable food, obviously, had evidently been there since the opening in December.

Still, fascinating stuff! It covered not only design of food in the sense of taste, smell and shape but ( Read more... )

(it's meant to mean "the route of calories ( Read more... )

My last 7 days were crazily busy. I only worked three of those days, but I was busy the rest of the time as well ;-)

Tuesday: English Meetup (Amberkatze took ( photos) )

God, I'm full. I'm very narrowly avoided eating myself to death today. To my defense, I'll claim it wasn't greed but curiosity that made me eat so much. My friend N took me out to a Spanish brunch today. She works for a magazine and gets treats like that all the time. It's great to be her friend and get taken along to those things for free.

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By the time I realised it's getting warmer, dark later in the day, and the trees are in bloom, the weather forecast already showed that winter will be back on Monday ( Read more... )

When I say I love spinach you think you know what I mean, but let me illustrate: This week I had
spinach in crepes and dhal with spinach on Monday,
spinach on pizza on Tuesday,
spinach strudel on Wednesday and Thursday,
pasta with spinach sauce on Friday, and
spinach dumplings on Saturday.