Hold your judgement. If you are told ‘they are all this’ or ‘they do this’ or ‘their opinions are these’, withhold your judgement until all the facts are upon you. Because that land they call ‘India’ goes by a thousand names and is populated by millions, and if you think you have found two men [...]
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USA! USA! USA!
Posted in Drink, Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Restaurants, Society and Culture, Travel, tagged viking.American food, viking.beer, viking.England, viking.gastropolitics, viking.London, viking.opinions, viking.USA on Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Spring Art Roundup 1: Beach Blanket Babylon and Beyond
Posted in Art, Drawings, Restaurants, tagged viking.England, viking.London, viking.museums and display, viking.sketches on Thursday, July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was a productive spring, art-wise. I have been working on some cleanup animation for a London studio, I did some storyboarding for a friend (to be featured in my next post), and I also made some concept art for an idea for a video game that originally came to me five and a half [...]
Found: ¡Horchata en Londres!
Posted in Drink, Restaurants, tagged viking.Mexican food, viking.non-alcoholic drinks, viking.Spanish food, viking.street food and markets on Friday, June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You never know what you’ll find at Portobello Market.
In London, Mexican food is scarce, and often so inauthentic that the descriptor “Mexican” itself must be called into question. I don’t really care about authenticity that much, and I don’t know enough about “real” Mexican cuisine to be all that rankled by the relative dearth of [...]
A Good Burger is Hard to Find
Posted in Food, Restaurants, tagged viking.American food, viking.beef, viking.English food, viking.gastropolitics, viking.London, viking.Los Angeles, viking.luxury, viking.opinions, viking.Wisconsin on Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In my mind, there are two kinds of burgers. First there are what I would call “burger joint” burgers, burgers that are basic and uncomplicated, without a lot of fussy toppings or hoo-hah over ingredients. The Californian chain In-N-Out makes a textbook example of a good burger joint burger; secret menu aside, it’s just nice, [...]
