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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
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Filed under 'food'
➠ May 6, 2012
Pairings Box | Turntable Kitchen
“A curated food and music discovery experience”. Subscribe to get monthly deliveries of a) 7” vinyl, and b) recipes and ingredients. <3
➠ September 15, 2010
➠ August 11, 2010
Scottish delights at the Haven in Jamaica Plain - The Boston Globe
Review of a new Scottish restaurant in Boston. I will HAVE to go there when I’m in Boston in October. “The menu here is not light eating; at least half the items are deep-fried.”
➠ July 23, 2010
Let's start a new life with iDish
This might upset some folks, but I think it’s beautiful. “If iPad were a dish, there are no problem”
➠ April 21, 2010
TCHO Milk Chocolate Beta
Help beta test TCHO’s new Milk Chocolate. Yum!
➠ January 11, 2010
Waffleizer
The definitive documentation of “Recipes that can be made in a waffle iron, that AREN’T waffles”
➠ May 22, 2009
SPENCER ON THE GO French Take-Away
New SF taco truck, selling French cuisine. The thought of buying curried frogs’ legs on a street corner fills me with excitement.
➠ August 4, 2008
Deep Fried Scotland
Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.
➠ June 13, 2008
What is a Munchy Box?
The culinary minds in Scottish chip shops that brought your the deep-fried pizza have a new creation. (They can give me American nationality, but since I’m sorely tempted by this, it’s clear they’ll never take away my Scottish heritage)
➠ November 16, 2006
cabel.name: Kettle Chips Beta
$20 for five experimentally-flavoured bags of Kettle Chips. Vote for your faves, and they might appear on shop shelves some day. “Royal Indian Curry” is calling my name.
➠ July 14, 2006
Boston Restaurant Week 2006
Reservations open today for $30.06 dinners at restaurants across Boston. I think we might go to Todd English’s Bonfire this year.
➠ June 28, 2006
The 'power of one' - why larger portions cause us to eat more
Yes, its obvious: When you’re presented with more food, you eat more.
➠ November 25, 2005
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Food (The Big Sleep)
The tryptophan in turkey is the reason why you feel sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner? Urban legend.
➠ January 22, 2005
Monster Munch
Another treat unleashed from my mum's suitcase: 28 bags of Monster Munch (22 of which are Pickled Onion flavour. Hurrah!)
Super Noodles
A treat from the UK, thanks to my mum -- 20 packets (in various flavours) of Bachelor's Super Noodles.
➠ October 2, 2004
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.