Tag: Communities
The Gruen Transfer
On The Table - Tokyo Café
AEON Mall II – Sen Sok City, Phnom Penh
I’ve never been big on Mall restaurants, eateries or bars, the...
The Exciseman
The Exciseman Whisky Bar, Singapore
exciseman (British)
noun plural -men
A government official who collects excises and enforces the laws concerning them
For over two hundred and...
Natural History part 5. ‘The One Straw Revolution’ On Man...
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 –2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher, he was a trained...
Natural History Part 4. ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ On Reason and Nature
I noted with interest that a special 20th anniversary edition of John Ralston Saul’s jeremiad, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ had been released, a book that provoked...
Natural History Part 3. The Opimian Falernian, One Wine...
“In vino veritas, (in wine, truth)”
― Pliny the Elder
As we approached the end of the second millennium, huge growth in wine production in...
Natural History -part 2. A Hegelian Dialectic
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Consumer preferences in wine are a bit like hem-lines in the...
Natural History part 1. Desire
A list of the requirements to live a happy life:
Freedom
Self Sufficiency
Friendship
Thought
Wine
Bread & Cheese
-Epicurus,
(#Note: Epicurus was an avowed teetotal, the author here has...
Chive Talking
In 2013, the tranquil little expanse of lawn in front of the National Museum and beside the Royal Palace was transformed into its ceremonial...
Bean Streets
The modern concept of café culture is alive and well in Cambodia with the emergence of the successful local café chain Browns and the...
The El Carnicero of Phnom Penh
The country of Uruguay in South America sits on the northern bank of the River Plate, there are four cows, (12 million) to every...