Archive for October, 2008
The Ghanaian meal: The Gold Coast
Luckily, the Ghanaian menu at the Gold Coast Bar and Restaurant was completely worth an epic, rain-drenched Saturday night journey to zone six. Otherwise, I would have been in trouble. The restaurant was my suggestion. I’d found it almost at random—it was the first Google hit for “London Ghanaian restaurant”—and immediately decided we had to [...]
Readings: The kimchi crisis
Oh no! One of our favourite foods has been hit by the economic downturn, according the the BBC. Despite kimchi’s status as a South Korean cuisine staple worthy of its own museum in Seoul, a kimchi trade deficit has reached $77.3 million over the last three years thanks to demand for cheaper Chinese-made product. There’s [...]
The Ethiopian meal: Lalibela
At university, I was fortunate enough to have a lecturer who spent nine months a year doing fieldwork in Ethiopia. In one memorable lecture, she described sharing a meal with a whole Ethiopian village—speaking not only of a rich and aromatic cuisine, but also of the fun she had dining with the whole community. [...]
Bonus meal: The British gastropub
To me, “gastropub” is almost a form of British cuisine in its own right. In my hometown of Toronto, a city of many restaurants and food snobs, I’ve been to plenty of bars that care about what they serve. But the food at London’s gastropubs, where the movement began, is unique, and uniquely British—traditional, pricier [...]
