I’m interested in mongrel cuisines. Just about everything I cook myself is mongrel cuisine by definition. I’m culturally rather a mongrel myself, and most of my sources for recipes are not exactly faithful to the culture of their birth. For … Continue reading
Now that we’ve finally had some decent snowfall, I’m hankering for some of this. Since the last time I checked, several new bus services to the nearest ski hills seem to have been launched. I found it a bit of … Continue reading
I’ve always believed that it is a Very Bad Thing to discriminate between people based on group membership, especially when the groups are things people don’t choose for themselves (race, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, etc). Apart from the obvious damage … Continue reading
I’ve never said these words before but: the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas sermon is excellent, and well worth a read. Here’s the paragraph that struck the deepest chord for me: The most pressing question we now face, we might well say, … Continue reading
