Tag: Communities
The Friday Angel
The Friday Angel
On April 14th 2023, the Friday angel, Kemira Tevi will carry the severed head of her father, Kabel Moha Prom, the King...
The River of Sapphire
The River of Sapphire
Cambodia’s celebrated master chef, Luu Meng is looking lean and relaxed as we meet for an early morning chat, I...
Tables of Two
“So short our lives, so hard the lessons,
so difficult the tests, so sudden the final victory,
so tenuous the hope of joy that so...
Flatiron – The Third Place
Flatiron - The Clothes Iron
Flatiron Meridian Cambodia is a state-of-the-art, integrated development that incorporates prime office space, hospitality, and over 300 units of...
Galette des Rois
Galette des Rois
“The revolution like Saturn devours its own children”
Georg Büchner
Saturnalia
In Ancient Rome, Saturn was a mythological god, his reign depicted as a golden...
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...