Category: Food and Drink
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Do you like hot foods? What is the limit of your personal "heat" index – black pepper, jalapeno, serrano, the slinky Thai pepper or the more daunting Habanero? When does mouth-watering enjoyment deteriorate into eye-watering agony? The Aztecs utilised chilli peppers in a traditional drink. With heat levels spanning a wide range of "burn," chilli…
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The current buzzword in marketing is ‘going green’ or ‘eco-friendly’. Today’s New York Times has an apropos look (subscription required)at the phenomenon ( which I had ranted about earlier in my Madness of Magazines post on my personal blog), thus confirming my suspicions that while going green might be desirable, there will always exist a…
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As if the grandiose claims and threats of ‘Baghdad Bob’ ( Mohammad Saeed al Sahaf of Iraq) weren’t enough, we now have a new candidate for the grand prize of propagandery : ‘Khartoum Karl'(Link to WaPo article via Rawstory):
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While the jitney is a transportation fixture in much of the world, the only jitney I have ridden in the United States was on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York, around ten years ago. I was with my Uncle Ed, and he was on a hunt for superior Jamaican jerk chicken. Even in New York,…
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Now that Sujatha has convinced you that it is not un-American to NOT go shopping on Black Friday, I will add my bit by pursuading you that it is okay not to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. For the last couple of years, my two adult kids have given family Thanksgiving a miss, choosing to come…
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