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(For Freud) A Case of Ak

By E | Posted on: October 23, 2006
Well it’s the end of another weekend. Sigh. And more relevantly, the end of another day of marking essays. Double sigh. (An aside: growing up in Swaziland I had a friend, a brilliantly creative Danish-Hong Kongese boy called Hans. His father, who was Danish, got Donald Duck comics sent from Denmark so his son could [...]
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Another Secret

By E | Posted on: October 17, 2006
I keep forgetting to share this culinary epiphany I had recently. When you cook pasta and are using a fresh herb (as hopefully you are), particularly one of the more “robust ones” (sage or rosemary, say), here follows a clever trick. Save a little of the herb – some of which has presumably gone into [...]
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Pet People

By E | Posted on: October 13, 2006
For those of you out there with dogs, here’s a friendly reminder from latest BBC Food newsletter: “It is dangerous to feed chocolate to dogs. Chocolate contains varying quantities of theobromine, a natural stimulant found in the cocoa bean, which affects the central nervous system and heart of dogs and can result in fatal poisoning.” [...]
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The evening dream

By E | Posted on: October 10, 2006
Scarlet O’Hansen moonlighted, occasionally, as a model for a life drawing class. During her third session she decided that she should think of it as meditation, or yoga. It takes quite some stamina, you see, to hold a pose. What I mean is to be absolutely still, for fifteen minutes, naked, in front of strangers. [...]
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Thames Town

By E | Posted on: October 6, 2006
Thames Town – the ‘authentic British-style town’ in Shanghai – is something that has been in the works since 2001. I hadn’t heard about it until this morning where pictures of the town’s pub and fish-’n-chips shop provided the daily little anecdote for the morning newsreader. There has been some anxiety, apparently, in little ole [...]
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Meet Miss Scarlet

By E | Posted on: October 5, 2006
Scarlet O’Hansen had just sat down to pee when she noticed a fruit fly hovering around the bathroom. This was not good. She had a rather strong aversion to small things that fly or crawl. The fruit fly didn’t bother her as much as if it had been, say, a fat caterpillar doing that thing [...]
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the best and the worst

By E | Posted on: September 26, 2006
Well the day started out on a pretty shitty note. By lunchtime I had had to deal with two different sets of students who hadn’t prepared for class. I walked out on the second bunch. It was my first walk-out and in retrospect it was as exhilerating as it was infuriating. At the time, though, [...]
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Fry Day

By E | Posted on: September 22, 2006
It’s been a dangerous week. And I’m not sure that the past tense is adequate. I’m in one of those whirlpools of 1000 things to do, 3 of which get half done while the thought of the rest paralyses. So, in lieu of stealing time to write anything interesting, I’ll just hook you up with [...]
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Seriously now, some things to consider…

By E | Posted on: September 16, 2006
Check out The Nation’s Food Issue (aptly dated 9/11).
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I am that I am

By E | Posted on: September 15, 2006
Once I got it into my head that I should become a chef. So off I went to chef school. We went to class and looked like this and we learned to make things like this (That’s real Danish pastry, of course. Wienerbrød.) and this: (That’s really marzipan. I promise) Even the famous horn-of-plenty: How [...]
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