Posted in Food on Jan 13th, 2010
As an avid vegetarian and animal lover, I sometimes find it hard to argue with my carnivorous friends. “Meat is tasty”, they say, “Vegetables are what food eats” they say. After the last time I dragged them to a vegetarian restaurant I’ve started to get anonymous emails referring me to websites like Avsme and comments [...]
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Posted in 5min on Nov 25th, 2009
One thing we can never tire of is a great pumpkin dessert recipe, which caters to our sweet tooth in absolute style. If you’re feeling up to adding a decadent touch to the holiday table this Thanksgiving, there is no better recipe than this perfect pumpkin mousse parfait, brought to you by the Food Network’s [...]
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Posted in 5min, Food, Holidays on Nov 24th, 2009
Do you remember your favorite Thanksgiving memory?
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I don’t, probably because I haven’t had any. Thanksgivings, not memories, that is. I have plenty of memories about other stuff, well for the moment. But I am now fully willing to make some real memories about Thanksgiving instead of the ones that I [...]
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Posted in 5min, Food, Holidays on Nov 18th, 2009
Some people say that you can only call yourself an adult once you have wine glasses. Others think that the limit isn’t set by the glass, but by the bottle: if the wine comes in a box, that means that you still have a lot to learn about classy drinking. Because the fact is that [...]
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Posted in Food, Holidays, history on Oct 27th, 2009
One of the tell-tale signs of Halloween season is the traditional candy corn which seems to populate every candy aisle in every store. A self-confessed candy corn addict, none was more thrilled than I to discover this video from the Food Network, detailing the labor of love with which this colorful treat is made. Like [...]
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Posted in 5min, Food, Holidays on Oct 16th, 2009
After “The Lost Boys” noodles were never the same for me, and even now I still have second thoughts before I eat them. That’s me and horror movies: even when I know that life will never be the same for me after I watch them, I can’t stay away from them. That’s how I never [...]
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Posted in 5min, Food on Oct 10th, 2009
I’m a classic girl, so although I think it’s fascinating, the whole Bizarre Foods trend is not my thing (especially when they involve a living creature). It might work for some, but when I tried to play extreme and ate some traditional food on the streets of Central America, all I got was stomach [...]
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