Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

17 September 2008

Can Fat Teens Hunt (!?)

I wish I were making this up.


Series description: Ten overweight teens live with a tribe of former headhunters in the remote jungles of Borneo. (Stereo)

They're British. They're yobs. At the moment, the participants are squeamishly eating frogs. This program is on the Health Network. It's not just the West's financial system that deserves to collapse...

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04 December 2007

For those of you who are not Aldous...

...but would still like a sense of what it's like to visit the culinary Mecca that's Spain's San Sebastián, Slate is running a series of articles (with slides) by wine columnist Mike Steinberger on the town that has the most Michelin stars per capita in the world.

Highlights so far: Juan Mari Arzak's spice chamber, and the fact that the exterior of Restaurante Arzak wouldn't look out of place in Brooklyn, as Steinberger suggests, or failing that, Etobicoke.

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07 September 2007

It's only Kellogg Canada that is insane

On my first trip to the grocery store today I was pleased to see that Crispix in the United States are still called just "Crispix" and have not been rebranded "Crispix Krispies" in order to indicate that they are now part of the Krispies family of cereals along with the more traditional Rice Krispies.

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