Tag: seasonal foods

I’ll Be Lucky to Escape With My Waistline Intact: My Last Month of Eating Everything in Shanghai
June 12, 2013

I’ll Be Lucky to Escape With My Waistline Intact: My Last Month of Eating Everything in Shanghai

    This is going to be a major food porn post. I just realized that after over four years in this city, I’ve really never delved into all things foodie on this blog. Mops, cats, pollution, water monsters, bad maps– sure. Food, not so …

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On Ramadan, Tummy Bugs and Food Porn: Notes from Chefchaouen
July 28, 2012

On Ramadan, Tummy Bugs and Food Porn: Notes from Chefchaouen

I’m not even going to bother writing an impractical guide to Chefchaouen. It would consist wholly of stifling hot bedrooms, baking hot terraces, rumbling tummies, fevered brows, the same stretches of empty and well-trodden lane, closed doors, silence. You’d have to be floored with a …

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Making you jealous in Casablanca
July 17, 2012

Making you jealous in Casablanca

I was going to write a long, thoughtful post about arriving in Morocco and getting terribly, terribly lost in Casablanca today. I was going to make joyful noises about the realization that my French is still very much there, somewhere under the surface of the …

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Gardening in Shanghai and Other Indoor Sports
April 27, 2012

Gardening in Shanghai and Other Indoor Sports

Doug said this morning that he really wouldn’t put it past me if I started raising chickens in the flat.  I wondered if the neighbours would notice or care if I beheaded said chickens out in the shared hallway, between the lifts and the parked …

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Nothing to Say Here (The Solutions Edition): Put A Shirt on That Pig!
December 31, 2011

Nothing to Say Here (The Solutions Edition): Put A Shirt on That Pig!

For today’s edition of my Shanghai photo series, I have a small task for you. You see, yesterday I saw something confusing. Something I hadn’t seen before in this city. I saw this. Yes, that’s a pig. And yes, she’s wearing her best quilted winter …

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Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Curing Winter Meats)
December 29, 2011

Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Curing Winter Meats)

As you may have noted, my writer’s block is rather acute these days. Oddly enough, this dearth of things to say has coincided with an inexplicable increase in my impulse to take pictures of random things. Of course, these photos aren’t necessarily fit for human …

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Nibblies, cookies and crepes, oh my!
December 9, 2010

Nibblies, cookies and crepes, oh my!

Today I stocked up on my coping-stash at work. The weather has turned frightfully cold after the loveliness of the weekend and it was quite difficult to haul myself out of the warm flat and out into the streets to go to work. I knew …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Provisions
October 30, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Provisions

As I am gearing up for the improbably overambitious NaNoWriMo, I’ve had to scale back on actual thoughts about reality in Shanghai. This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped being horribly invasive with my mobile phone camera. I’m now up to 601 poorly focused pictures in my …

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Awesome Things We Ate in Myanmar
August 10, 2010

Awesome Things We Ate in Myanmar

Before we went to Myanmar, we really had no idea what to expect, food-wise.  It wasn’t a cuisine that was well represented in the South East Asian culinary repetoire internationally. We knew it was just across the water from all things Indian and Bangladeshi, and …

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Fast, But Not Exactly McDonalds
June 8, 2010

Fast, But Not Exactly McDonalds

  Sometimes when I come home from work, I’m absurdly hungry- maybe I worked through my lunch break, maybe I covered ten kilometres  just pacing and monitoring in class.  It has been known to happen.  I carry a pedometer as a clock in the class so …

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Grocery Photo Series
May 29, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Grocery Photo Series

     

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(101 Things About Shanghai) Decidedly Seasonal Fruit
April 29, 2010

(101 Things About Shanghai) Decidedly Seasonal Fruit

Although I previously raved about how I could get all sorts of imported loveliness in Shanghai and so had no need to go crazy with longing from eating only what was available locally, I would like to take this time to write a small tribute …

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