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sorry, it was indeed silk screening

At the 50th Berlin film festival Million Dollar Hotel starring Mila Jovovich was a contender, as was Filipino movie, Burlesk King. Balut (duck or chicken embryo cooked in its shell)is a Filipino delicacy. keep forgetting, Saladin and candy floss

Santa Claus means Christmas and christmas dinner. How about a delicious kobe beef roast before the plum pudding? yeah right, first mortgage the house or sell the kids.... Harry Potter and eggplant

You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant, according to Arlo Guthrie so this must include wasabi sorry, forgot again Joan of Arc and baguong

Mexico has issued stamps depicting Aristotle. Tortillas are a Mexican staple Attila the Hun and coconuts

I think I need to get a life

He did lots of different types of Campbell's soup..... tomato is the most well known one

tiramisu is an Italian booze soaked trifle, George W. Bush used to be a booze soaked Texan trifle.

Mao and Campbells cream of mushroom soup were both painted by Andy Warhol sorry, Charles Darwin and witchity grubs

one of the Dillinger gang was 'Baby Face' Nelson, babies drink milk

In June last year at the U.N. only Russia and Canada voted against the creation of a Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Lenin was a Russian leader Pemmican is/was a foodstuff of some of the indigenous peoples of Canada. how about Richard Dawkins and soulfood?

oops Bing Crosbie and carrots??

Karl Marx was a heavy smoker Tobacco is a noxious weed (well, to some of us) Parsnips are classified as noxious weed in many American states

check out James Rutz, soy beans, a devil food...

Thaksin Shinawatara and injera??

Are you talking about Pinochet and yak milk?? Spanish courts have been investigating genocide in Tibet, therefore yak milk, therefore Pinochet also investigated in Spain for crimes against humanity

Hey Mallet, You learn something new every day....I was thinking about Chavez selling oil to Ken Livingston, mayor of London and fondly known as 'Red Ken', ergo jellied eels

When I was young and stupid we used to sit in the water in Rabaul harbour in New Britain (before the place was destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption) and do boil in the bag over the hotter spots erupting from the shallows. Occasionally burned our butts...much merriment...if I knew my kids were doing something similar I would kick their butts.

In Zadie Smith's book 'On Beauty', the central character is a professor called Howard Belsey who is writing a paper on Rembrandt and one of Belsey's students sends up her professor's classes by comparing them to aspects of tomatoes. 'to properly understand the tomato you first have to understand the tomato's herstory', so tomato chutney and Rembrandt......sorry a bit tenuous

Nicole Kidman starred in Moulin Rouge with Ewan McGregor, who is Scottish, as is haggis

Menachem Begin won the 1978 Nobel Peace prize awarded in Norway, Norway exports whale blubber Hugo Chavez and jellied eel

When my 16 y.o. son professed a keen interest in becoming a chef I asked a dear friend who has been a food photographer in Paris for many years for her advice and she point blank refused to use her many contacts with some of the best chefs there to get him a stage because she thought it would be too cruel! Needless to say he has been an apprentice in a 2 star mich. in england for 14 months and it's just as rough here.

I use an old 1987 edition of Britain's Wildlife, Plants and Flowers (Reader's Digest) that I found in a secondhand book shop near Bath. It's excellent, as is Essence, which I have been cooking from for a month or so with great results.

I was going to say Lao or Khmer

Larb is perfect with rice to soak up all the delicious sauce at the bottom of the plate so sticky rice KHAO NIAU