World’s largest restaurant…

…according to The Guinness Book of World Records is outside of Damascus and is named, appropriately enough, Damascus Gate, or Bawabet Dimashq in Arabic. It serves approximately 5,000 diners and has 54,000 m² (581,251 f²) of dining room and 2500 sq/m (26,909 f²) of kitchen. Over half a million square feet? Really? To give you a rough [...]

Happy New Year to all my readers!

Is this the end of the decade? Opinions are mixed. It might very well be, if you only count the aughts. It might not be if you say that the decade actually ends in 2010, if you count decades from year one. It’s the old “millenium” argument all over again. Frankly, I’m ready to ditch [...]

Cookbook of the day – The Taste of Thailand

The Taste of Thailand by Vatcharin Bhumichitr Publisher  Macmillan General Reference (September 1993) ISBN 10: 0020091303 ISBN 13: 978-0020091301 This, the last cookbook review of the decade, has a literal title that can be taken multiple ways. The first is used in the sense that you would expect a cookbook to use it – taste in a [...]