Because I didn’t go all the way to Ecuador to find reasons to be rude about the US, let’s be rude about something Ecuadorian: pan pipes.
The fact that people can produce tunes with them at all is a minor triumph for human ingenuity, but let’s be honest, they’re a rubbish instrument. They make the penny [...]
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16 November 2006 – 10:56 pm
World Cup food blogging – Trinidad and Tobago
15 June 2006 – 11:01 pm
Thankfully, we did manage to beat T&T, despite the fact that Peter Crouch just isn’t good enough to play for England and Sven seems to have sucked all the creativity out of the players like some Swedish football-vampyr.
Anyway, I cooked some Trini food today to mark the occasion. The recipe was from Madhur Jaffrey’s World [...]
Soccer, soca, and similar
10 June 2006 – 11:24 am
I was getting antsy waiting for the footy (an hour and twenty minutes build-up before the match clearly isn’t enough, dammit), so I thought I’d try and buy some music from each country England plays in the World Cup.
I already have a fair bit of Swedish pop, thanks to Catchy Tunes of Sweden. Trinidad and [...]