Category Archives: food

What’s that smell? – 2

Posted on Sunday, August 2, 2009 by Howie

If you passed through Northern Alsace today you may have noticed a strange, discomforting odour wafting westward across the Rhine valley? Happily for you, if it smelt like something across between a cow’s arse and a rotting corpse, I may … Continue reading →

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Ass-purge season

Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 by Howie

Here’s some trivia for you: ‘ass-drainage’ is the perfect anagram of ‘Andre Agassi’; but I digress, that’s not what this post’s about, but I thought you might want to try dropping that in to an awkward silence sometime? Ass-purge on … Continue reading →

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The best baguette in Strasbourg?

Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 by Howie

I’ve been here long enough now to know a good ‘pain‘ when I touch/taste/chew one. Initially, way back in 2006, my talents could only (just about) distinguish a super-market stick from a bakers wand, and therefore not begrudge (too much) … Continue reading →

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