Philosophy
Culture
Il Mangera le Riche
Il Mangera le Riche - Révolution and Food
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
Fête Nationale Française, (known as Bastille...
Culture
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 five-star, serviced residence.
This new Phnom Penh landmark is inspired by...
Food
Topaz Restaurant: Pairing Food & Wine by Darren Gall
Topaz Restaurant: Pairing Food & Wine by Darren Gall
Wine has been associated with good health since the time of the Ancients and we know through archaeological and documentary evidence that wine has been part...
Culture
Penh Folds – The Four Wines of Destiny
Penh Folds - The Four Wines of Destiny
“The Ox is slow but the Earth is Patient”
Confucius
The recent Spring Festival and Lunar New Year heralded in the arrival of the year of the...
Faces to the Rain
FACES TO THE RAIN
Where are the poets in a world gone mad,
The sonnets, stanzas and quatrains?
Words are sharpest from the edge,
Where is the caesura and refrain-
In our desperation and despair?
Aught but screams and cries...
Wine
Natural History part 5. ‘The One Straw Revolution’ On Man and Nature
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 microbiologist and agricultural scientist and after completing his education he...
Wine
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 in me a great deal of thought when I first...
Wine
Natural History Part 3. The Opimian Falernian, One Wine to Rule Them All
“In vino veritas, (in wine, truth)”
― Pliny the Elder
As we approached the end of the second millennium, huge growth in wine production in some countries saw a sort of industrialization of grape growing,...