Posted in Misc on May 3rd, 2009
Shopping this weekend I picked up a bar of Seeds of Change Dark Chocolate with Orange and Fig. Something about the packaging suggested that it was one of those Fair Trade products, where the producers get a fair shake.
As much as we enjoyed the chocolate later — it really was good — I was dismayed [...]
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Posted in Misc on Apr 7th, 2008
This time next week I will be in Sicily — an MBA trip with a side order of good food and la dolce vita. I might have preferred a non-Italian destination, therefore, for dinner this evening, but only a churl would deny a 17 year old her choice of restaurant on her birthday.
So, we went [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 18th, 2008
Briefly, one of those
Why didn’t I think of that?
moments: light and dark chocolate chess pieces in the New York Times. Later, I searched Google Image for some chocolate pawnography.
So much for the chess proverb
After the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box
This is a game I could play. With Lindt [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 18th, 2008
Some friends of mine once flew home to New Zealand from America on a flight that skipped Christmas day.
Having had several of my MBA assignments due on January 10th I seem to have spent every day but Christmas day, for quite a while, slaving over a hot computer. I slept like a log on the [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
In the last week there has been a bit of a stink in the British media for and against killing badgers. That’s right, badgers. Not foxes.
Foxhunting, the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible, as Oscar Wilde called it, is still controversial and highly circumscribed. Badgers, however, are completely protected by law.
The nearest I’ve been to [...]
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