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- Attainable “Detox”
Why are people, especially women, always claiming to be “detoxing”? Why can’t women just say, “Hey, I’m feeling kind of fat, and I’m going to drastically reduce my food intake for a few days”? We humans are always convincing ourselves we know better than the wisdom of ages: after surviving pretty well for thousands of […]
- The Emperor’s New Sorbet
(Sorbet and agar cube of indeterminate flavours, deep-fried membrillo, olive oil cake and pureed green olive and goat’s cheese sauces)
Two recent events conspired to inspire this review of Barcelona’s avant-garde dessert palace, Espai Sucre.
1. Chez Pim’s scathing review of L’Esguard: “quite possibly the worst meal of [her] life”. (Northern Spain is apparently experimental cuisine hell.)
2. […]
- Easter Lunch
I spent Easter Sunday chasing my pet bunny around my room, trying to lure her my way with cranberry-pecan granola and romaine lettuce, so my boyfriend and I could clip her claws. (It takes two of us: one to hold Peanut, the other to snip.) Mission: Impossible. I should have known better than to […]
- Jeweled Custard Tart
Grey day today. Just two days after buying the digital SLR camera of my dreams, I watched it crash to the ground, snapping the rim of the beautiful, stabilized lens that was going to introduce dewy and faintly pornographic variation in depth of field to my photographs. Nothing left to do but thank heaven for […]
