In the kitchen
Christmas fruit salad debate: canned or fresh?
For a long time, I accepted the presence of fruit salad as being part of Christmas tradition. Not until much, much later did I wonder why, with the abundance of fresh fruits throughout the year, we were making fruit salad with canned fruit.
In the den
The next 007
It is almost certain that a British actor will play the next James Bond (casting an American would be both tragic and blasphemous). But will the film have an original story or be a re-adaptation of one or more of Ian Fleming’s work?
Elsewhere
A Hong Kong story
Tales of pirates and smugglers are irrevocably intertwined with the story of what was once British Hong Kong. It’s almost like a movie except that all of it happened for real.
