Asking about animal ingredients in Spanish

August 28th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Asking about animal ingredients in Spanish

 
We were in Miami 2 days ago and were pretty excited to make sandwiches with Cuban bread.  Unfortunately, a lot of Cuban bread has lard as an ingredient.  I struggled to ask if bread contained lard.  I found on the web that the Spanish word for lard is manteca (or perhas grasa de cerdo).
My high [...]


Babbling Banshee Dinner Theatre @ Rachael’s Cafe. serving at 6:30p (Irish Stew and Boxters (Irish Potato Pancake) served), starting at 7p.

March 25th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Babbling Banshee Dinner Theatre @ Rachael’s Cafe. serving at 6:30p (Irish Stew and Boxters (Irish Potato Pancake) served), starting at 7p.

feeling out large, global brands

March 15th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

feeling out large, global brands

I recently saw this chart from Good Magazine (via Boing Boing):

and this article from AlterNet about H&M along with a lengthy dossier on H&M from No Sweat UK.


albio in prague

November 28th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

albio in prague

I’ve had this on an ATM receipt floating around my notebook since this summer.  Chiara and I ate a very good meal at a restaurant in Prague that specialized in vegetarian/organic/local foods:
Albio
Truhlarska 20
Praha 1
(accessible via the namesti republiki stop on line b)


notes for the week of 2007-09-24

September 26th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

notes for the week of 2007-09-24

Tim says to check out Kaati rolls while I’m traveling.
This wiki page has info on how to configure e-mail integration in eventum which Boxcar uses to handle tech trouble tickets. I wanted to turn off auto issue creation because we get a lot of e-mails that don’t neccessarily want to become issues and [...]


potluck @ heartbreakers + rumpshakers house (1222 west kirkwood ave). 7p.

January 13th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

potluck @ heartbreakers + rumpshakers house (1222 west kirkwood ave). 7p.