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Oops

On Saturday morning we stumbled into a dangerous place. Taking us into the Simon Johnson warehouse sale is a little like taking a crack addict to Scarfaces’ den. On first impression there’s a thin layer of civility. There are lots of middle aged women wearing well pressed linen shirts wandering around. They’re in a warehouse […]

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The very hungry ones…

I contemplated how best celebrate a year of being Mrs Hungry One; a year of nesting, coping, cooking, travelling, and excess. In the silver light of the moon the week before, I hatched a plan and started to look for some food. On Monday we ate through one tomato risotto with chunks of chorizo, but […]

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Figs and films….

I love this time of year. It’s Oscars season. This is not for the faint hearted. Not everyone gives a fig about it; but for us, it’s serious. There are Films to be seen. Note the capital. These are Grown Up Films which we can Talk Seriously About. ‘Oscars season’ is a fairly involved process […]

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They’re off again

You can’t really excuse it at all- we’re off again. Yes, that would make it our third ‘trip of significance’ in the past 12 months. It was booked and planned in sunnier financial climes, when the US dollar was glinting at a tantalising 92 cents. Last night we changed some cash at LAX- we got […]

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What’s 8000 divided by 2 million…?

For those among us who doubted. Myself included. Well played, The Hungry One, well played. From: Restaurante El Bulli [mailto:bulli@elbulli.com] Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 9:43 PMTo: Subject: RE: reservation | reservaWe regret to be late giving you an answer. The demand has been again extraordinary and is difficult to go on with the management. […]