From the monthly archives:

February 2010

This can’t be a good idea…

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I pass by this place on New Providence every time the winds are right for kiting from South Beach. I guess when you need a beer, you really need one right now…

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Chicken, orange and almond salad

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Mum and Dad are in New Zealand at the moment, where Dad is on a jolly invitational lectureship, wowing the Kiwis, no doubt, in all matters mathematical philosophy and logic. Mum seems to be settling in too, in a whirl of coffee mornings, farmers markets and local Sauvignon. I think she’ll take to retirement quite [...]

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Postcard from Miami: cruising around Stiltsville

No wind for kiteboarding yesterday, or rather lots of wind that disappeared just before we got out on the boat… So we cruised around Stiltsville, just off Key Biscayne, a random collection of wooden houses on stilts in the bay that are in various states of abandonment. [Geeky postscript: I downloaded the free trial of [...]

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One-pot barley soup for sustenance without stress

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Cooking has been pretty routine of late as we’re waiting for the builders to finish with our new apartment. They’re at that stage which I’m optimistically calling “looks-much-worse-than-it-could-possibly-be”, where there are no floors, doors or lights, five different companies working and about as many languages all being spoken at once. I’m a bit scared to [...]

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Restaurant reviews: Seafire, Nassau; Rosa Mexicano, Miami

In my (not so) humble opinion, I reckon that one can accurately measure the health of the economy by the number of waiter-sung “Happy Birthday” moments in a certain type of restaurant over the course of any one evening. This rule, let’s call it Zoë’s Index of Disposable Wealth Demonstration by Means of Public Humiliation, [...]

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