Thursday, August 14th, 2008
My first encounter with “kimchi” was when my brother-in-law brought three containers of this dish from Manila ten years ago. Kimchi is actually this traditional Korean dish made of vegetables, like cabbage, that was fermented with a variety of seasoning. So the moment my brother-in-law opened the plastic containers, it nearly knocked me out [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
“In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity.”
- Jonathan Meades: Link
Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life
By Kitty Hauser
Granta Books, 286pp
Amazon: Link
“Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the nineteenth and [...]
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