An expatriate’s take on American food

I just spent a week in New York. I had that familiar feeling every time I re-enter the United States. The food shouts at you. Well, not the food itself…

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Cloned Steak Anyone?

So after years of debate, it looks as if the US Food and Drug Administration is about the approve the meat and milk of cloned animals as safe.  It will…

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Ruminations on Kitchens

Kitchens seem to be quite the story this year. Well, it has to be said that the modern Western kitchen is a rather odd phenomenon embodying all kinds of contradictory…

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