Speaking of vegetarian, we made these zucchini pancakes as a side dish the other night--delicious and nice change of pace from our normal starch. The recipe comes from Epicurious.com but we modified it quite a...
This is a weekly series where we recommend an artist, song, or compilation of songs, from a country in Africa, brought to you by our awesome friends at Awesome Tapes From Africa. Today’s selection is...
Save 6Music balloon outside BBC Broadcasting House
On Saturday (22nd May, 2010) I headed down to the ‘Save 6Music’ demo outside BBC Broadcasting House, arguably the spritual home of UK radio. It was perhaps the politest...
After the wonderful, thought-provoking cooking demonstrations at the Cooking for Solutions event, I wandered into the Monterey Bay Aquarium. As part of the weekend's events, there was a Sustainable Foods Information Fair inside the Aquarium...
Continuing my tour of Dutch cities you’ve probably never heard about: I went to Delft in February. On second thought, maybe you have heard of Delft, what with all the blue and all.
Either way, I...
If you aren't following the Sinica podcasts on Popup Chinese, you are missing some excellent commentary on current issues in China. This one is from two days ago, and it complements this post. It is...
This past weekend, I attended a great event at the Monterey Bay Aquarium called "Cooking for Solutions". It's an annual event in its ninth year, featuring celebrity chefs doing cooking demonstrations and speaking on sustainable...
Rock Paper Tiger, an up-to-the-minute, kaleidoscopic romp through contemporary China with some side-stops in US-occupied Iraq, is the first novel of Lisa Brackman, already well known as a blogger. She’s also one of my best...
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