Stories about Food from November, 2007
Jamaica: Eating in Kingston
Stunner‘s taste buds are excited about Kingston Restaurant Week.
Russia: Chewing Gum in the Soviet Union
Like a million other things, chewing gum wasn't freely available in the Soviet Union. In the post translated below, a Russian blogger recalls a childhood experience involving chewing gum - zhvachka - that appears comical now, but must have been rather traumatic 30 years ago.
Saudi Arabia: Italian Restaurants
Saudi blogger Ahmed Al Omran is looking for Italian restaurants in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Japan: Ramen Research
Ampontan introduced a website on Japan instant food industry, which has most detailed information about the history of instant ramen starting from 1958.
Palestine: Beware of Falafel
One of the traits of eating FALAFEL is the possibility of getting blacklisted in America or worse accused of being a terrorist, warns Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah in this post.
Barbados: How To Make a Conkie
Just Bajan.com posts a recipe for “conkies”: “a corn-based Barbadian delicacy…traditionally made during the month of November, celebrating independence.”
China: Sweet Potatoes
Zengying blogs about the history and social value of sweet potatoes, especially to the Chinese poor population in the past. However, it is now served as a winter snack [zh].
Vietnam: The Best Place For Teachers
It's good to be a teacher in Vietnam.
Serbia: A Trip to Kosovo
Novala, Europa writes about his trip to Kosovo: speaking “the language of the opponent” – Serbian – with an Albanian family; a drawn-up map of Pristina; photos from a farmers market; school uniform street fashion.
Barbados: Cost of Eating Out
Living in Barbados has decided to boycott several local restaurants on the grounds that “there are still many good places to eat and without taking out a new loan.”
Singapore: Diwali in Little India
Sparklette visits Little India area of Singapore to check out Deepawali festivities.
Lebanon: Price rise
“Everything that has occurred over the past 6 weeks is passable […] But when Ghalayini's Man'ousheh becomes 500 Liras [0.30 USD] there is no place for silence. Enough already! Some heads must roll,” writes Jamal, who is satirizing the sudden and sharp increase of prices.
Bahrain: If You're Arab And We Know It…
Bahrain's bloggers are facing hard times this week, with two being denied entry to Kuwait, another subjected to racial profiling in Japan, and a fourth traumatised by a change in Dairy Queen's menu...
Japan: Dolphins and Heroes
In English-language media and blogs this week, everyone had something to say about the Japanese dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. Footage of angry Japanese fishermen clashed with images of blonde-haired Western celebrities endeavouring to "share the water" with the soon-to-be slaughtered dolphins. While opinion on the issue in English-language blogs and forums for the most part supported the spirit of the protest, Japanese bloggers had differing things to say.
India: Bangalore – Infrastructure and Barcamps
Bangalore is the focus of this post. Bangalore is the capital of the southern state of Karnataka and and is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of India. Once known as the “garden city” of India, the city has morphed into a sprawling metropolis with poor infrastructure and a...
Guyana: Wicked Dessert
Guyana-Gyal invites you to take a taste of a dessert with “a name that connote ruckshan-ness…that is, bad-girl-ness”…
Peru: The Fate of Inca Kola
Juan Arellano of Globalizado [ES] recently received a chain letter email that speculates on the fate of this popular soft drink Inca Kola in Peru, in which it is one of the few drinks in the world that outsells Coca-Cola.
Barbados: Food Prices
The Barbados Central Bank's Governor has warned against high wage demands, but Barbados Free Press would have “much rather seen her talk about the monopoly that controls the importing of food and other necessities into Barbados, kills competition and contributes to out of this world food prices.”
Trinidad & Tobago: The Politics of Pizza
KnowProSE.com is all for what he calls “pizza politics”.
