Mexicana — What Is It With Mexican Food?
October 7, 2012

Mexicana — What Is It With Mexican Food?

There are surprisingly few places in the world where you can’t find some bastardised take on Mexican food. Beirut has had Tex-Mex since the 80s. Yes, during a sectarian civil war, and the Israeli invasion, they were importing Tequila, and, for all I know, packet …

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by Theodora
The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea
July 25, 2012

The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

There’s no institution more quintessentially British than afternoon tea, a concept that travelled to the furthest reaches of the British Empire. And a concept so English that Victorian young ladies, invited to tea, were encouraged to fill up on bread and butter first. At the …

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by Theodora