Stories about Food from January, 2007
Romania: Best of Everything
Csikszereda Musings presents the Best of Romania Awards 2007.
Ghana: Ghanian food and culture
Ethan Zuckerman writes about a visit to Ghana by a popular TV host, Anthony Bourdain, “His camera crew does an excellent job of capturing the chaos, color and rhythm of the place, introducing the host to street food and the wonders of akpeteshie, Ghanaian moonshine distilled from palm wine. He...
Trinidad & Tobago: “Is Chinese food ours?”
Trinifood wonders whether Caribbean territories could legitimately include certain Chinese dishes part of their national cuisines.
India: Feni in Goa, Hic!
Goa Blog has a comprehensive post on Goa's local drink – Feni. “And the reason is not difficult to understand because feni is the name of the most popular local drink among hard drinks.”
China: food poison photos
Mousen in bullog blogs a series of photos on poisonous food in China, which include: First set: salt, white fungus, cruller, assorted vegetable, pig's fat; Second set: ancient eggs, eggs, pork, dry pork, duck blood pundding; Third set: barbeque, vegetable, chips, fish, fruit, bottle water, sausages; Fouth set: bread, rice,...
Russia: Graffiti and Cafe in Moscow
Snowsquare posts pictures of Moscow's Squirrel graffiti and “the last unbranded cafe.”
Romania: “2006 ‘Best Of’ Miercurea Ciuc Awards”
Csikszereda musings posts “the official 2006 ‘Best Of’ Miercurea Ciuc awards.”
East Timor: Egg Shortage
Dili-Gence talks about the shortage of eggs in East Timor. “I asked two locals and both said that there had been a huge buy-up for Christmas feasting. One (with a wicked smile on her face) blamed the Portuguese for baking too many cakes.”
Ghana: fashion for food
Bella Naija posts beautiful photos from The CatWalk the World – Fashion For Food, which took place in Accra, Ghana.
Iran:Ice Pack a new popular product
Rozmaregi says there is a growing number of shops in Tehran which sells only one product,an ice cream called Ice Pack[Fa]. You can see a photo of Ice Pack in this blog.
Peru: Amazonian Fruit Drinks
Alejandro is a California-based Peruvian Chef who describes his various blogs as “a bridge between California, Peru, the world, myself, they are my prism.” He recently returned to Peru, where he was able to visit the northeastern Amazon region for the first time and captures some pictures of local street...
Peru: Food Books
Alejandro's recent visit to Lima coincided with the annual Ricardo Palma Book Fair. He ended up buying over 30 books, some of which he reviews here.
Guyana: Eid-Ul-Adha specialities
Chenette posts several well-captioned photos on Flickr of foods traditionally associated in Guyana with the Eid-Ul-Adha observances, including Guyanese vermicelli and Maleeda.
China: Yao Ming and beef
Frank Yu from One Billion users comments on the recent McDonald's poster featuring Yao Ming with horns with a subtitle: “beef makes you strong”, but the whole image conveys a totally different message to foreigners:
Argentina, Panama: Pastry Pictures
Panamanian chef Melissa de León makes mouths water with a “a pictorial tour of some glorious sweetness from Buenos Aires, Argentina.”
Romania: “Crumbs”
Csikszereda Musings writes about the two-day New Year's partying ordeal: “Crumbs is this: The next day after a party, in the afternoon, you all go back to the house of the party to have lunch, and basically reminisce about the night before. Lunch, of course, being all the leftovers from...
Trinidad & Tobago: Trying doubles at home
Chennette's mother prepares doubles, a popular Trinidadian street food, and Chennette posts the recipe and link to the Flickr photoset documenting the process.
