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What in the world are you eating?

Culturally Specific Breakfast

25 March 2009 | 2:30 - By Phil Lees

 Why is breakfast habit-forming?


The human need to eat your own breakfast is almost inviolable. Not necessarily eating your own breakfast in the aphoristic sense that it is the most important meal of the day but eating a breakfast that is culturally yours to eat. As much as I love other culture’s food, I can’t handle eating a foreign breakfast every day.

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Recession Gardening

20 March 2009 | 2:10 - By Phil Lees

 Is it worth starting a vegetable patch to beat the recession?

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Over the last few months, I've seen the term "recession garden" pop up in my news feed, a financial crisis equivalent of the "victory garden" grown by Americans during WW2 that supplied around 40% of America's fresh produce during the war years. It appears that the interest in growing-your-own is growing as unemployment..um...grows

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Fleeting Ethiopian bread obsession

11 March 2009 | 11:33 - By Phil Lees

Picking up bread obsessions by osmosis.


Since I've moved house, I'm becoming an injera junkie, possibly due to the increase in local supply.

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Eating at Dey Krahom

05 March 2009 | 4:29 - By Phil Lees

Progress or wanton destruction of Phnom Penh's street food?


It is strange to spend your Sunday evening watching somewhere that you occasionally picked up a cup of coffee be razed to the ground on television, along with the entire suburb that contained it.

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About this Blog

A blog about what the world eats, when and where it eats it, and why it matters to us all. Only much less ambitious than that sounds and with more excruciating puns.

Phil Lees grew up in rural Victoria, the first generation in his family to not have lived on the farm and thereby not slaughter their own meat.

In 2005 he moved to Cambodia and started the nation’s first food blog, Phnomenon.com, named after the best pun that he has ever made. It turns out that Cambodian food is delicious and unlike the warnings in most guidebooks, is not likely to kill you with any immediacy. Gridskipper called him a “national treasure”. Lonely Planet’s Greater Mekong guide called him “the unofficial pimp of Cambodian cuisine”. The New York Times laughed at a funny hotdog he saw.

Phil makes a mean sausage, a hoppy pale ale, a modest laksa. He owns three barbecues and is in the market for a fourth.

 
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