Cakes for Kierkegaard and Sermon on the Mount as Existentialist Answer Perhaps (Matthew 6:1-18)
on Nov 1, 2009 in Matthew All Given For Food: Bake and Cake All Given For Food: Chocolate Matthew: Sermon on the Mount That which tastes like Sara Lee pound cake (chocolate flavour) and an espressoOne blustery rainy evening, possibly not unlike the one that came upon Nigel Slater (but without the napping cats and speckled brown eggs), there was indeed the warm wholes...

Perfect Laws for Perfect Relationships (Matthew 5:21-48)
on Oct 25, 2009 in All Given For Food: Burgers Matthew Matthew: Sermon on the Mount Green Tea Cream Frap, Hazelnut Latte and a few Good Snacks. Taken with an iphone and messed with on Mill Color.Starbucks - the new McDonalds mugging (as in hogging a table and swotting, not the thing that happens in a dark lonely alley with a knife)...

And the Missing Link is Jesus (Matthew 5:17-20)
on Oct 17, 2009 in Matthew All Given For Food: Bake and Cake Matthew: Sermon on the Mount All Given For Food: Strawberries It would have been clear to Jesus' Jewish audience that the characteristics of members of the kingdom of heaven (= the real disciples of Jesus = Christians) and their relationship with the world (Matthew 5:3-16) was not unlike what they had been taug...

Coffee, Salt and Light, and the Essence and Use of the Christian (Matthew 5:13-16)
on Oct 16, 2009 in Matthew All Given For Food: Cupcakes All Given For Food: Coffee Matthew: Sermon on the Mount Buoyed by great waves of enthusiasm, we stopped at Papa Palheta for a refuel between bible study and dinner that night. The Terra Firma blend was indeed bootylicious, complex with long palate, as advertised, unfairly disadvantaging the Sulawesi Today...

Breeding - We Hazs It (Matthew 5:7-12)
on Oct 11, 2009 in Matthew Matthew: Sermon on the Mount My name is BlahBlah. And i am a yoghurt addict. My fermented milk of choice is La Fermière's Nature. Unlike most commercial brands, this trumps Nestle's La Laitière in the Proustian associative stakes - thick, creamy, tart, very good with morning m...

This Is The Sound of Inevitability (Matthew 5:1-6)
on Oct 7, 2009 in Matthew Foray into Sermon on the Mount looked to be fairly epic. Adequate fortification was necessary.L.A. Burgers at Café Hacienda, Dempsey The Handburger at Raffles City. Interior thanks to Plystudio. Dry-pattied blue cheese beef burger no thanks...

Earth Moves Under Feet, Kingdom Comes (Matthew 5-7)
on Oct 4, 2009 in Matthew Outside, at six in the evening, there was fog and clammy greyness. A pervasive heaviness, the colour of the presence of life-sucking Dementors, the hue favoured by the Nazgûl. Then buildings shook. And the worker bees inside looked up in terror. "I...

Penang Pop-Over and the Culinary Tourist
on Sep 21, 2009 in All Given For Food Travels: Malaysia Travels Why are there magazines on food and travel? Wasn't foreign food, until recently, merely a component of travel, like killing natives off with foreign diseases; a by-product of other evolutionarily more lofty aims like the crusading or discovering new...

Control Sinners On A Weekend Away
on Sep 17, 2009 in Travels Gardens Farms and Greenhorn Brown-thumbing In the garden, the lotuses are blooming but we're off for the long weekend.Woohoo, here we go! Oh, them undies are missing again.We just can't let go. We need to know and we need to plan and we need to manage.We need to "know the truth" about our des...

All That Jazz and God Transforming Sinful Natures
on Sep 12, 2009 in Jubal's Legacy: Jazz All Given For Food: Bake and Cake Jubal's Legacy: Concerts and Gigs All Given For Food: Whisky and Whiskey In another life, it might be nice to use some random postgraduate degree as an excuse to research a thesis on food blogs as carriers of cultural memes, with food as universal language, hunger and greed as international drivers, recipes as socially-tr...