Posted by: AM on: December 25, 2008
Christmas tradition decrees that on the night before Christmas, we all eat chowder. Christmas in my wife’s family’s house, that is. And just because we’re thousands of miles away from Seattle doesn’t mean we can’t recreate the traditional yuletide fish soup.
Most of the American recipes call on ingredients I can’t easily get here in Cork, [...]
Posted by: AM on: October 22, 2008
Last week I spent ten pounds on a bar of chocolate. That’s sixteen dollars. I still can’t believe I did it.
Usually whenever I buy a bag of crisps or a cream cake I find myself passing a gaunt homeless child with skin like greasepaper at precisely the moment I’m trying corral an unruly splurge of [...]
