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Tabbouleh Song

By on October 22, 2010 in Food, Middle East

From 248am.com

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Le Pain Quotidien Palms

By on July 3, 2010 in Food, Kuwait

I picked up my regular bread at PQ today. And gave the new Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro a tryout.

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Cost of eating healthy in Kuwait

By on October 26, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

Some fruits and vegetables are not too expensive but it is too expensive for good whole wheat flour to make bread. Here is costs 2.5 KD at The Sultan Centre which is approximately 5.3 UK Pounds at today’s rate. Other more exotic flours like their spelt and rye mix are even more expensive.

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Fintas Take Away Chicken Restaurant

By on September 25, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

The chicken is quite tasty. It tastes better than the chicken from the Sultan Centre but the Sultan Centre chicken is a bit cheaper at 1 KD. And the staff is very friendly. If you want to see where the place is on a Google Map click here.

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Indian Bananas in Kuwait

By on September 23, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

These bananas are available in the Sultan Centre and are not too ripe. They must be in season now in India. I’ve had these in south India and they are delicious. You don’t know what a banana should taste like if you haven’t had these. In fact, the regular commercial bananas have been the Cavendish [...]

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Fixing Health Care

By on September 10, 2009 in Food, Health

Michael Pollan has an interesting article on US health care in the NY Times. I recently read his “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and blogged about it. Basically he is saying we are wasting billions of dollars on treating overeating related diseases need to eat better and not get so fat. In fact [...]

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Shopping at the Mangaf Sultan Center

Shopping at the Mangaf Sultan Center

By on August 4, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

They even have beans from Kanada! And after shopping they help you load the groceries. Note the sun in the photo. A regular hot dusty day.

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In Defense of Food

By on August 2, 2009 in Food, Health

Updated with the video above from Michael Ruhlman Notes from the Food World blog. Link via kottke.org. I’ve written also about overeating recently. And many other posts on food. I just finished In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. It is a bestseller and very interesting. For so many years I was interested in eating [...]

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Food Allergies

By on August 1, 2009 in Food, Health

The latest on Food Allergies at the NewScientist. What you are allergic to depends on where you live. Via kottke.org

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Kuwaiti dates

By on July 28, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

The kind of dates that this post is about are the ones that grow on date palms. I imagine that this post gets many visitors interested in the other kind of dates. Well if you arrive here for that reason, you are better off to go to other sites for online dating, to meet other [...]

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