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What in the world are you eating?

A tale of two lobsters

17 December 2008 | 0:45 - By Phil Lees

Lobsters on opposite sides of the planet are facing distinctly different fortunes.


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Foie Gras: Rich, buttery cruelty

11 December 2008 | 18:45 - By Phil Lees

Is the debate on the cruelty behind foie gras over?


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The End of Restaurants

03 December 2008 | 1:05 - By Phil Lees

 In cash-strapped times and with the need to appear frugal, the breakfast meeting supplants the three-martini lunch. Will 2009 hold the end of the restaurant?


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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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