Chocolate-scented stamps arrive in France

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Friday, July 10th, 2009 – 10:35 CEST

http://timbres.laposte.fr/detailarticle.jgi?idCarac=&idGamme=036&idArbo=009&page=1&index=0&idArticle=1109101

Last month, the French postal service, known simply as La Poste, released a limited-edition set of stamps that yes, smell like chocolate.

They cost the same price of a normal 0,56€ French stamp, or you can get a sheet of ten for 5,60€.

Each one is designed with various chocolate-related imagery.

If only La Poste would come out with different scented stamps! Imagine the possibilities! Neopolitan letters, anyone?

[via David Lebovitz ; hat tip to Alan Wiig]

Posted in Food, France

27.06.2009: Hot Pot cooking event LIVE with Beijing

Posted by YuHan, Thursday, August 13th, 2009 – 15:16 CEST

Tastes of traditional delicacy in China.
In the Chinese cultural, hot pot is a type of foods that represents a sense of group activity. Family members and friends gather together not only to eat hot pot but also to enjoy the quality time with each other. People would sit around a round table and have a pot of boiling soup in the center. Everybody has the access to each ingredient and is free to cook whatever he/she desires any time and simply dip it into the pot and wait till it’s done. As a result hot pot has already become one of the delicacies people must have in special occasions as well as in ordinary meet ups.

Besides the cities in China, 80+1 also wishes to show Linzers one of the most representative eating cultures of Chinese people. Consequently to cook Chinese hot pot along with Austrian fondue, which shares similarities with the Chinese chafing, for people in Linz can provide them a more complete picture of what China is like.

27.06.2009: Live Bit presentation Blowing – blow the air from Beijing to Linz

Posted by YuHan, Thursday, August 13th, 2009 – 14:46 CEST

We will see how the smell of Chinese Hot Pot is blown from Beijing to Linz.

26.06.2009: LIVE karaoke singing with Beijing

Posted by YuHan, Thursday, August 13th, 2009 – 14:12 CEST

Let’s sing Karaoke tonight in the main square of Linz!

25.06.2009: Tea ceremony at the Global Window

Posted by YuHan, Thursday, August 13th, 2009 – 14:02 CEST

Discovering the fun in Chinese tea making.

Al Razzaque Restaurant

Posted by Siraj Shahjahan, Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 – 17:47 CEST

Al Razzaque Restaurant is a famous restaurant in Bangshal, old Dhaka as well as in Dhaka city. It is luxurious hotel and restaurant in old Dhaka. The restaurant is very familiar for the delicious Bangla taste and local traditional foods. Every day lots of people come to eat, particularly the businessmen who come in old Dhaka for their business purposes.

Najira Bazaar

Posted by Siraj Shahjahan, Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 – 12:25 CEST

Najira bazaar is located nearby Dhaka medical college, Gulistan and Bango Bazaar in old Dhaka. There are restaurant, stationary, groceries, confectionary, vegetable- fish –meat &fruits shops, and other many shops are available beside the road of Najira bazaar.

California taco trucks a source of deliciousness, tension

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Friday, June 12th, 2009 – 11:26 CEST

Since their humble beginnings in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, taco trucks have long become a culinary staple of California and increasingly of the entire United States. They offer up cheap food (almost always selling nothing that costs more…

No Impact Man speaks in New York

Posted by Florica Vlad, Friday, June 5th, 2009 – 16:53 CEST

On Sunday afternoon I attended a volunteer organized event titled “Evolver Town Hall”. Gathering in the St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery in New York City, the event spilled out into the adjoining courtyards with workshops, panel discussions, art and…

US-France Roquefort dispute ends

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Friday, May 8th, 2009 – 09:54 CEST

Telegraph cheese beat writer Henry Samuel brings us the delicious news that the US has finally agreed to drop its 300 percent tariff on the traditional French blue cheese.

For those who hadn’t been following this story as closely as Mr. Samuel, shortly…