20061030 Dodgy hotdogs (no pun intended)

I was walking to take the bus when I passed near the hotdog post near Tottenham Court Road station. The powerful roasted onion flavour caught my nose immediately as was expected (I’m a big fan of roasted vegetables!) and then I wondered: why do people depreciate so much these hotdogs, saying they are a major [...]

20060911 Sushi!

Although most probably no one of you is going to believe me, yesterday I ate sushi for the first time in my whole life! I had a weird, innate aversion to anything which involved eating raw fish, which produced me horrible visions of gastroenteritis episodes and what not, and made me reject systematically even the [...]

20060515 And now everybody wants to follow a healthy lifestyle

There are news which can shock you deeply when they suddenly arise in your screen. Now I can’t find the news (information overload, anyone?) but basicly they were: McDonald’s restaurants are going to be refurbished and redesigned to look more healthy, less plastic, more like an iPod (!!!) Construction workers are demanding healthy breakfasts. They [...]

20060307 Gastroscene@London v2

Well, as trace was feeling a bit paparazzi on sunday and he has put a very mysterious picture on his blog accompanying the sofa story end, I thought it might be interesting to reveal what was happening in that glowy food lab. And more concretely it was a fish paella. That is, a “paella de [...]

20060306 Fizzy drinks and the infinite boredom of winter fruits

I was commenting yesterday to trace that it had been published recently an study outside there showing how people was dropping cokes, fantas and even robinsons in favour of mineral water, smoothies and juices. I think it is quite interesting, at least because I have made exactly the same. Past year, when sml! came to [...]