http://trashblanc.com From the kitchen of Keepingitfake Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:47:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a talk made for us at TrashBlanc.com. On Thursday 31st July the ICA poses the question of why it's so hard to ship fresh English lettuce into E1. The blurb: Leila McAlister of Leila’s Shop will pose questions about why, from her position in central London, E1, it is so complicated ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/07/17/lettuce-alone-in-e1/ FACT! £20bn of wasted food goes down the swanee every 365 days in the UK. On wasted food. That's according to this three month old report in the Independent. There's lots wrong with food in Britain right now, from battery operated chicken to Gordon Ramsey's utterly inconceivable ubiquity. But surely none ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/07/01/20bn-reasons-food-prices-are-super-high/ We've long bemoaned the difficulty of acquiring top notch food at a decent price after the hour or 11pm in London. A city that purports to be a world capital turfs it's citizens onto the street at closing time where the choice is grim. A bag of chips from the ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/04/16/lateeats-the-marathon-kebab/ We wrote last week about Londonization, chain eating, the pleasure of knowing the same over-priced menu on ever high street. Well what are we going to do about it? We're going to tell you what, right here on TrashBlanc.com we're going to find the very weakest links in an all ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/04/08/welcome-to-the-chain-gang/ TrashBlanc was in London for a full week last week so our AZBarLondon.com side project got a boost of life. Check out our visit to the Dolphin on Mare Street, Hackney. http://trashblanc.com/2008/04/05/a-z-d-azbarlondoncom-is-back/ (Scene of the detestation, Haymarket Wagamama. Thanks for pic Ewan-M) Londonization. The French term for the decimation of the high-street by chain stores and chain restaurants. Walk down any street in the UK and you'll see exactly what they mean. While we at TrashBlanc.com have to 'fess up at this juncture ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/03/31/wagamama-hero-to-tb-zero/ TrashBlanc get's back to London on Tuesday and the first stop is going to be a trip to the personal trainer to lose the South-By-Belly. After that we have a ton of video and written SXS-Eeats to get live so stand by. In the mean time we're fully up to speed ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/03/17/sxs-eats-photo-round-up/ Everyone should have a dream in life but few of us really do. The Ice Cream man does though. To give away a half a million sticks of frozen dairy throughout the US. A truly amazing individual Watch video here. http://trashblanc.com/2008/03/13/sxs-eats-half-a-million-ice-creams/ Here at TrashBlanc.com we like to think we go the extra mile so that you don't have to. We bite the burgers, finger the fries and taste the tacos so that you can get straight to the good stuff. 8 out of 10 times we come away with exactly ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/03/12/sxs-eats-stoneys-pizza-i/ We'll have more on our trip to the wonderful Hula Hut out by the lake in Austin, but for the moment you can check the Trash Blanc lowdown on the Mexican Margarita. A little sweeter and greener than the standard tequilla cocktail, this house drink started off our last night ... http://trashblanc.com/2008/03/12/sxs-drinks-mexican-margarita-hula-hut/