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Pick your own food…

This is the time when we should harvest our own fruits and vegetables.  This is the time when we can start making local contacts with our neighbours and share food.
Bring common sense to your life.
Grow your food and share it with those near you.
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Rudo & Cursi… Tough & Soppy?

A review on the film Rudo & Cursi out in July in London.

… and to finish the previous boring post…

… I definitely lost my earring today, not in an exotic mountain, not in some fancy museum, but most likely in a corridor in a college in East Finchley or in a pub.  My earring went today, in north London out of all places.  Sad for me, irrelevant for the world, maybe it will come [...]

…spooky lost and found jewelry

this is a very trivial post with nothing foodie, but I want to share this to see if other people have had the same kind of experiences which somehow are puzzling me now.
Have you ever lost jewelry and found it again? I don't mean misplaced and find 10 minutes later, but I mean lose [...]

after a long absence… a metamorphosis

… it has been such a loooong time since I last wrote, amazingly I still seem to get people reading this blog, a very old and dated one; apologies for the christmassy last post.  We went to Mexico for an extended holiday and it was amazing, went to see the monarch butterflies  and had a [...]

… an old friend

Dear World:
Let me introduce you to my old friend, little lettera 32.
Some years ago when I was in the design museum in London, we encountered this little number as part of the items on display.  Gosh I thought, I know I am not a spring chicken anymore but I am certainly not old [...]

half marathon, dissertation, new book?

A long cycle seems to be coming to an end.  At this very moment I am in the middle of writing my second dissertation, first one was for a BSc in Chemistry in Mexico City, and in very eighties fashion I chose to do a study on artificial food colourings -yuk!
This one though, seems a [...]

… On running, cooking and the ultimate tasting experience

This is not about extravagant flavour combinations that are being concocted in the middle of the rush hour using liquid nitrogen.  This is about a new taste experience that is just so simple and yet so good in many aspects that I really feel the need to share it with Chad and whoever else reads [...]