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A taste of brilliant Brazil

September 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · food, life, work

Wow, wow, wow.
As hinted to in a previous post, I was on my way to Brazil.
The hint took more concrete shape with me visiting Dr. Rosane Minghim and colleagues at the Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC) of the Universidade de São Paulo.  One of the many perks of my job is that [...]

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Ultimate Dutch Snack

May 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · food, life

While it’s true that Dutch cuisine is the brunt of far too many less-than-flattering jokes, it definitely has its highlights. Ontbijtkoek is a very typically Dutch spiced cake that is often eaten in the morning, whilst Hagelslag is the Dutch word for chocolate sprinkles, which people from around these parts like to use as [...]

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Another source of miso soup

April 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · food

It seems that the Redjeki Toko in Delft (click here for my Google Map that’ll lead you right there) also sells miso soup! I acquired a supply of my old favourite, but also decided to try a different type of miso, just for kicks:

It’s a so-called family pack, I prefer to call it [...]

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infinite espressos!

April 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · food

On Friday, Eric and I went to Rotterdam for some easter-Friday shopping. Somehow, I ended up purchasing this beautiful machine:

It eats coffee beans and produces the most beautiful espressos, all at the press of a button. The cappuccinos are also nothing to sneeze it… in fact, that little silver ball thingy on the [...]

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Lovely miso soup

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · food, life

My good friend, mentor and fellow alternative universe explorer (teehee) Dave bought me some of this whilst visiting two weeks ago:

This is beautiful stuff. Unfortunately, it’s very addictive, and I’ve almost exhausted my supply.
We had a truly smashing time by the way… we should definitely do more of those.

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