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  • Wine and wood

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    Yesterday we visited to the nearby Hunter Valley 11:30am, I thought, was perhaps a little early in the day to be wine-tasting, but since there was chocolate available as well, there were no complaints from me. Customs will only let me take back two bottles of wine to the UK, which is a shame. On…

  • GM

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    A comment of mine on MetaFilter expressing my views on genetically modified crops.

  • We’ve never had it so good

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    We’ve never had it so good – and it’s all thanks to science – Matt Ridley gets it damn straight in this column in the Guardian. Enough of European techno-pessimism and anti-GM fanatics!

  • Fuji Food

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    Fuji Food – Cambridge’s first Japanese food store, full of Japanese snack, noodle and frozen food goodness. I was quite pleased with their sweet selection, stocked with the requisite Pocky sticks and rice crackers. The noodles looked pretty decent as well, and I’m considering trying out the frozen octopus balls sometime.

  • MREs

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    Son of Spam – a fun article about the US military’s latest advances in creating edible and long lasting food for troops on the move. Says Darsch: “It wasn’t the four-letter words” in soldiers’ letters that caused his lab to abandon its “father knows best mentality” about MREs [meals ready to eat]. “It was the…

  • On Tea

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    While reading a book on synaesthesia (review to follow soon) I found an interesting quotation in it by Marlene Dietrich: The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently,…

  • Stay the fuck away from the Burrito

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    Stay the fuck away from the Burrito – a highly amusing review of US MREs (Meals Ready to Eat).

  • Food

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    There’s an interesting thing about food in America. I was expecting food to be quite a bit cheaper here than in the UK. Instead, the prices are essentially the same, but you end up getting an incredible amount more, maybe double the portions in the UK. So this means you end up with the somewhat…