Michael Pollan summarises his “In Defence of Food” in 8 minutes (YouTube) – Who needs to read? Food Trends: Gelatin in your cocktail – Bacardi thinks that the future of mojitos is bubble tea. I’m personally looking forward to martinis in aspic. What is manufactured meat? (PDF) – According to Australian Standards Code, it is… Continue reading Five Links on Friday: Leap Year Edition, 2008
Month: February 2008
Sausage Fancier
Once you’ve seen how sausages are made, you’ll want to eat nothing but sausages. This was my first impression of home sausage making; my second was that making sausages is possibly my true calling and that my university loan debts could have been better spent on a meat mincer and practicing the barbecuing arts rather… Continue reading Sausage Fancier
Just a small in-joke for my Khmer speaking homies
The falling price of the barang, Kota Bharu, Malaysia
The possibility of a guerrilla garden
In the modern city, horticulture is a transgressive sport. Modern urban developments tend to preclude growing fruit and vegetables as a possibility by offering only dark, windy balconies or paving over backyards, only conceding the mere edges to decorative, inedible shrubbery. The walls of suburban McMansions creep closer to the boundaries of their allotments offering… Continue reading The possibility of a guerrilla garden
Five Links on Friday: 22 February 2008
Food Trend: Seaborne Chefs – Marco Pierre White hits the high seas, rented out by P&O Cruises Intestines in Coca Cola – Great Vietnamese offal recipe (in Vietnamese) Rachael at Thus Bakes Zarathustra wants to glass Jamie Oliver – and I want to watch. Food Trends: Malaysia’s Roti Boy and Papa Roti open in Korea… Continue reading Five Links on Friday: 22 February 2008
Great balls of chicken rice
The apparent simplicity of Hainanese chicken rice is what makes it an addictive comfort food. It looks like simple steamed chicken and with fatty, chicken stock-cooked rice but is so fecund in people’s memories at it is impossible to begin to judge it. There are objectively bad plates of chicken rice replete with ropy strands… Continue reading Great balls of chicken rice
“The only reason to move to Sydney would be to kick Bill Granger in his white-panted balls”
Which was how my friend J summarized my decision to move back to Melbourne. I personally have nothing against Bill Granger and he has nothing at all to do with my decision to not move anywhere near him. The other reason to move to Sydney seems that in my absence, the rental property market in… Continue reading “The only reason to move to Sydney would be to kick Bill Granger in his white-panted balls”
The last ditch
Saturday night market in Little India, Kuala Lumpur If you could choose your last meal in a country, what would it be? It’s a much more concrete question than some imagined last supper: unless you’re on death row or about to commit suicide then chances are you’ll have no power over the menu for your… Continue reading The last ditch