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“You made my mum eat poo”

By E | Posted on: October 30, 2008
From the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘The lawyer for the family who were allegedly served human faeces in gelato at the Coogee Bay Hotel in early October said today that offers by the hotel of DNA tests and container test results were stunts. Yesterday, Adam Wood, the former executive chef at the Coogee Bay Hotel offered to [...]
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New foodspeak: greatest (or worst) hits

By E | Posted on: October 27, 2008
From the Guardian: Farmageddon – the greatest fear of opponents of the development of genetically modified food. Dashboard dining - eating while motoring. Mvvd – a male vertical volume drinker, a male who stands and drinks from bottles in a pub or bar. Slider – a square shaped American hamburger. Food Slut – a person [...]
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Summer is good for…

By E | Posted on: October 22, 2008
Growing your own cress for snipping onto those open-faced sandwiches (which are not as nasty as they sound, just openly begging for extras, like cress). Harvesting herbs from your garden (balcony), a free and priceless touch to any salad worth its name. Beetroot chocolate cake and pinot noir. Need I say more? Oh yes, and [...]
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The transparency of egos

By E | Posted on: October 18, 2008
I rarely watch TV anymore. That doesn’t mean I don’t spend time in front of the box (or “slab”, perhaps – box doesn’t quite describe sleek flatscreen LCD HD TVs, or whatever they’re called): I watch dvds, and do my daily Wii fitness test, of course, and one or two good series (Dirty, Sexy Money [...]
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Stoopid licence plates, Part I

By E | Posted on: October 16, 2008
Spotted on a Cape Town road yesterday: “THNKSDAD” Given that the car – a nifty little new something – was driven by a young woman (let’s be kind, she was probably a first year student, and therefore somewhere on that very ambiguous road between child- and adulthood), this is Dad sending little Katy out into [...]
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Better for the eyes (and the belly)

By E | Posted on: October 9, 2008
OK, I apologize for having resorted to shock tactics in my previous post, but the in’ernet can be a mean place sometimes. Still, I’ll compensate with a few shots that are hopefully more inspirational. Here’s something delicious to do with the humble eggplant (inspired by this recipe for Japanese-style eggplants). Start by cutting them into [...]
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WHY IS YOUR STOMACH FAT?

By E | Posted on: October 3, 2008
I love the internet. I could even be moved to say that I love Google. (By “love”, of course I mean depend on for head-stuffing, plenty of it great, too much of it rubbish). But what I hate is scrolling through my Google Reader, looking for all the good stuffing, and being confronted – nay, [...]
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Stars and Mazes

By E | Posted on: October 2, 2008
Indulging my “occasional outbreaks of bullshit for the purposes of humour or frivolity”, and in celebration of having survived marriage to me for an entire twelve moons, on Sunday the philosophe gifted me a book containing horoscopic pronouncements for EVERY DAY of 2009. Beyond the good news of my frivolity now no longer being constrained [...]
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Jag you are

By E | Posted on: September 21, 2008
It was in a (not so?) rare stroke of luck that we yesterday had the privilege of taking a jag for a spin. Perhaps a purr would be a better description. I’ve never been one to fantasise about big expensive cars – I’d probably rather spend that kind of money on a string of first-class [...]
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Not all that glitters rocks

By E | Posted on: September 8, 2008
So with a number of deep-frying successes safely in my repertoire, last night I attempted the ultimate: fish and chips. It was such a disaster that dinner had to be cancelled. In my defense, a number of good things came out of it nonetheless. For one, in my typical fashion of doing too much research, [...]
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