Mouthful

What in the world are you eating?

Unearthing Slovenian food from what somebody left behind


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Defining Anglo Australian food

18 February 2009 | 15:50 - By Phil Lees

Self-published recipes can define Australian food.


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Real American industrial food

11 February 2009 | 1:06 - By Phil Lees

 Can you be nostalgic for industrial food?


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Real American barbecue

03 February 2009 | 23:46 - By Phil Lees

 So how do the Food Safari pork ribs compare?


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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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