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Author: Phil Lees
Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones
Originally sent: 22 November 2005. About this series My bizarre marketing task for the month has been deciding how to suitably horrify Quincy Jones. For those of you playing at home, Quincy Jones is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 77 nominations and 27 winning Grammys. He has won an Emmy… Continue reading Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones
Street food isn’t a cuisine: it’s food that happens to be outside
Just because you barbecued that tongue next to a road doesn’t make it a cuisine I didn’t attend the World Street Food Congress a fortnight ago in Singapore but the outcomes from it seem to have devolved into the basest discussion of street food: name-calling, jingoism and fear of foreigners at once romanticising and ruining… Continue reading Street food isn’t a cuisine: it’s food that happens to be outside
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Faux Pho
Originally sent: 10 October 2005 About this series Pchum Ben, a holiday to appease the spirits of the dead, happened last week. Most Cambodians leave Phnom Penh to give offerings of food at their local pagoda to ensure that their deceased relatives don’t return from the grave to stalk the earth as a hungry legion… Continue reading Faux Pho
Finding posts near the user using Geo Mashup
If you’re not someone using WordPress, this post is not going to be of any interest. Brian over at Fitzroyalty asks whether it’s possible to order content on a blog relative to reader’s location. It is. Here’s how, or at least here’s how to add a button to the sidebar/menu on a WordPress blog that:… Continue reading Finding posts near the user using Geo Mashup
Keeping it Riel
Originally sent: 23 August 2005 About this series M and I recently has four day weekend in Bangkok which was great for all the wrong reasons: my personal highlights were going to the movies; eating Mexican food, smallgoods, and two and half pork-fuelled hours of yum-cha; and staying in a carpeted room. M picked the… Continue reading Keeping it Riel
First mention of Dude Food? 1911
I’ve been searching around a little for the etymology of the term “dude food”. Even though its use seem to blossom in the late 80s, it seems to have been around for a long time, referring to cowboys. The earliest that I can find is from journalist and author Caroline Lockhart’s first novel in 1911,… Continue reading First mention of Dude Food? 1911