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omni-foods

tom — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:17:36 +0000

I dislike these list things, but am strangely drawn to this one. Courtesy of Sarah and The omnivores hundred.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. ~~PB&J sandwich~~ - it’s wrong
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras (this was not my fault - it appeared as a secret ingredient to one course in what was meant to be a vegetarian tasting menu (!) at a Michelin starred restaurant..)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. ~~Oysters~~ - I don’t think so anyway, they are wrong
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. ~~Root beer float~~
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - I’ve swallowed flies while cycling.. does that count?
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine - NOT YET, but I intend to in Montreal!
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Faster than a speeding bullet

tom — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:05:31 +0000

Sarah and I have just returned from a week of cycling around North Wales, starting in Bangor and following the NCN route 8 with a slight diversion around the LLyn Peninsular.

Highlights included:

Bangor pier:

Camping on Shell Island (with views over Snowdonia):

The Talyllyn narrow gauge railway in Tywyn:

More here..

boris who?

tom — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:27:20 +0000

As an inhabitant of the Coldharbour ward, which really is a very small part of South East London (as we know a ward should contain 5,500 people), I was very pleased to learn that my ward came bottom of the list for votes for our new mayor. Coldharbour had the lowest proportion of votes for Boris of any London ward (just 12.3%).

Hoorah for my neighbours.

London sponsored Facebook poll

tom — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:39:54 +0000

Facebook just asked me to take part in a ‘London Sponsored Poll’. It looks like a cross between a public service poll, and an advert. I’m not sure what happens to the results, but it looked like this:

It’s not clear why Brian is at the top (unless the order is randomly generated), and the non-candidate options seem slightly weirdly placed. Is it an advert, and if so, who by?

Some more photographs

tom — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:16:24 +0000

I’m celebrating the installation of the iPhotoToGallery plugin for iPhoto - which allows me to upload photos directly from iPhoto to my gallery - with some more photo galleries.

First, a some pictures from Sarah’s birthday trip to Southend-on-Sea.

Second, from the Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill Velodome.

(yes, that cyclist does appear to be chasing a motorcycle - as is common in motor paced racing)

Boris’s Bus Blunder

tom — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:51:21 +0000

Ken is obviously paying for Google Mail ads, as I just saw this ’sponsored link’ at the top of my GMail client.

Boris’s Bus Blunder - www.KenLivingstone.com/Transport - Join Ken Livingstone’s call to Recall Boris’s Transport Manifesto

The Brief Balkan Break

tom — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:17:45 +0000

It’s been a while, but I’ve finally (this seems to be a recurring theme) uploaded photos from a brief January trip to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. A couple to tempt you into the gallery:

See the rest..

Loughborough Junction at Christmas

tom — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:03:23 +0000

In case you missed them, these are some pictures I took of Loughborough Junction on Christmas day (2007). Festive, isn’t it?

Some photos from Denmark

tom — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:44:32 +0000

A slight delay in service, but I’ve made some photos available from a November trip to Aalborg in Denmark.

Trust me, I’m an everyday person

tom — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:42:17 +0000

Some time ago I came up with the idea of a recommendations site where you, me and anybody else who cared could recommend things, specifically in the area of food. I wanted to know where to find the best chorizo, or the best olives, or the best bacon in London. I would invite the public to make nominations in their area and ultimately let the quorum decide what to recommend. So that when I wanted to find candied peel, marzipan or fishcakes, I’d be able to do it with a simple search.

Trusted Places have launched something not a million miles away. Except this is about reviewing restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, shops an the like. It’s suitably web2.0, and it still needs a bit of work on the search, but it is generally quite an interesting site. All it needs now is for you to make some contributions.