A friend passed along this photograph, that I find highly suggesting.
Time to get back in the kitchen – it would be a nice menu for a themed diner party with some friends.
While they appear weird and exotic, most of the courses are pretty straightforward – and any good coockbook or online recipe server should give ample information on how to replicate the dishes.
For instance, here’s a good one for Crawfish Korma.
And here’s a basic recipe for Wanton Soup.
Enjoy!
Cover of Egyptian Magic
The question might be phrased like this – do I read for fun anymore?
Some days it seems I do not any longer.
Back when I was a student – a BSc student, then a PhD student – I found myself reading an awful lot of geology-related books… not just for study, but for the fun of it.
Indeed, some of my teachers observed I was reading too much geology, and getting strange ideas, like this was the ’80s or the ’90s and not, as they seemed to believe, 1958.
And ever since I started working seriously on my writing, I also started reading a lot of stuff which is great fun indeed, but can still be filed under “research”.
Case in point – I’m reading Egyptian Magic, by the venerable E.A. Wallis-Budge.
Wallis-Budge was for a long time the leading authority on Egyptian magic and religion, and I’ve got a few books of his – including a wonderful thing that’s called The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology.
As I said, this is actually fun reading… no, really!
PBS on Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981.
The overall quality is very low, but the content is gold.
Just what I needed upon learmning that the Cult of the Rat God just acquired the rights to the Indiana Jones franchise (shudder).
This is the stuff of legends…
Today something a little different.
An example of how much the Indiana Jones vibe was felt thoughout the media in the early ’80s.
About the song, YMMV – but the video has some fine touches, and nails the Bogart-Ford continuum masterfully.
Enjoy.
This is just brilliant.
Karavansara 