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Where food and water come from

By Carsten Knoch on February 10, 2008 in Food, Politics

There’s a great article about a speech David Suzuki – environmentalist, scientist, activist – gave at McGill University in The McGill Daily.

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Recipe: Curry lentil soup

By Carsten Knoch on January 1, 2008 in Food

4 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion, diced 2 stalks of celery, diced 4 cloves garlic, chopped 4-6 medium yellow potatoes, diced (no need to peel) 1 pound (450g bag) green lentils, picked over and rinsed 4 vegetarian stock cubes (low-salt if possible) 6-8 cups water (you may need more – I used about 150% [...]

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World Food Cafe

World Food Café cookbook

By Carsten Knoch on January 1, 2008 in Food, Music

This is highly recommended. Great food and amazing pictures. For those who, like me, enjoy their cookbooks well illustrated, this is definitely worth buying. (Direct URL: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0711217513/)

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Yellow Curry

Curry

By Carsten Knoch on January 1, 2008 in Food

Happy New Year. I’ve been thinking about cooking with more spices lately. Even though I typically pack flavours into my dishes using all the ‘normal’ methods (lots of onions and celery, vegetarian stock cubes, herbs, chilies) I’ve not really cooked a lot with spices, especially from Asia. Having grown up in South Africa, a country [...]

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Recipe: Madras omelet curry

By Carsten Knoch on December 24, 2007 in Food

I was served this delicious and very rich vegetarian dish tonight. It stems from an out-of-print cook book by Mary S. Atwood called Adventures in Indian Cooking(1972). Well worth making. Tonight, it was served with basmati rice, spiced green beans in tomato sauce and home-made naan. 4 eggs 4 tablespoons milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 [...]

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Starbucks

Coffee bean ruminations

By Carsten Knoch on December 23, 2007 in Food

While I’m typically a big Starbucks fan, a devoted (some might say slavish) follower of the McDonalds of internationally standardized, excellent coffee-to-go, I never buy their beans or ground coffee for home. I get my home supplies from Whole Foods Market, in keeping with my objective to consume more organic things – and also, quite [...]

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