Leap frogging the Pacific: Chocolate and the Acapulco Galleon
The Pacific is a terrifying ocean. It’s not so much the storms. The Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn trump it there. …
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A few weeks ago I was in the Guanajuato Applebees (I know, seems incongruous, but there you are) waiting for a friend to turn up for breakfast. Menus are primary…
Read moreAn Italian Critic of Slow Food
The fact that a movement like SF – anti-progressive, antiscientific, worshipping the traditional societies, fond of the little, stratified and perennial communities in which the place of each is eternally…
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