By bluerasberry on 2015-06-22
On June 20 I went to a conference in New York called The Seed. It is organized by a consortium of activists and nonprofit organizations who promote the vegan lifestyle, and this annual conference is a special event to complement a monthly vegan market and meetup which they group also hosts. At their events they […]
Posted in animal, health, New York City, non-profit | Tagged conference, food, PETA
By bluerasberry on 2011-03-11
Last time I was in India I tried to like the kind of food which is currently most popular in Varanasi. This was a mistake – their food is unhealthy and not suitable to my tastes. Furthermore, I do not believe that it is even traditional and assert that despite what locals say, they have […]
Posted in health, India | Tagged food
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-17
At the railway station in Agra we ate at Comesum, which is a restaurant chain at railway stations. They offer Western-style fast-food service with both Indian and Western food. Also they advertise that anyone on a long train journey can call their central phone line and order food delivered to them on the train when […]
Posted in India, service industry | Tagged food
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-16
Chandan, Nandan’s tour guide brother, recommended that Nandan and I go to a certain restaurant to eat. The food was great. Nandan was supposed to tell the staff that he worked with Chandan. He told them this and they gave something like a 20% discount on the bill. Later that night Nandan called Chandan to […]
Posted in India | Tagged food
By bluerasberry on 2010-04-28
I went to go hear Ben Huh of the Cheezburger Network speak at Seattle Public Library on Saturday April 23. This is the startup guy behind the LOLcat site, Fail Blog, Graph Jam, Engrish Funny, and other funny content sites. He lives in Seattle. Everyone entering the lecture was offered free cheeseburgers from Dick’s. He […]
Posted in animal, presentation, Seattle | Tagged cat, food, social site
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-16
I took a class at Theo Chocolate on Wednesday, April 15. They have a proper chemist named Andy McShea as their head chocolatier and he gave a lecture on the fermentation of cacao beans. The way he explained it was that there were three processes – sugar to ethanol via yeast, ethanol to lactic acid […]
Posted in education | Tagged chocolate, classes, coffee, food
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-08
I arrived at Heathrow on the night of the second. As soon as I was in the airport I felt like I had come home. I was very sick. It was my plan to take the tube to the train and the train to Chia and Kieran’s place in Essex, so to prepare myself I […]
Posted in animal, art, England, health | Tagged comic, food, hospital, mouse, sickness, sport, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-03
The drive from Varanasi to Kathmandu by bus was pleasurable. I caught a night bus to Gorakpur at the bus station in Cant in Varanasi. I arrived in Gorakpur before sunlight, and had no trouble finding a connecting bus to Sunali. I arrived in Sunali in the morning, got stamped out of India and into […]
Posted in Nepal | Tagged buffalo, food, Kathmandu, palace
By bluerasberry on 2007-04-19
I have had a nagging cough for about two weeks now. It was annoying before I left for the Punjab and it has gotten progressively worse. Today I was walking home from my lesson with M.N. and I actually got short of breath. It scared me so I went to the doctor again just now, […]
Posted in health, India | Tagged food, sickness