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- Extreme cuisine: The 5 dishes even Japanese people are freaked to eat
- Jan Bartelsman: 'I want to make you hungry with photos'
- Christian Vanneque and the world's most expensive bottle of white wine
- Japanese tourist industry breathes seasonal sigh of relief
- Freaky Japanese dishes, China's adoption tourism, Melbourne coffee culture
- Palme d'Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasuthakul goes 'Primitive'
- Adopt a Chinese baby, move to China
- Cafe culture in Melbourne: 7 inner city villages
| Extreme cuisine: The 5 dishes even Japanese people are freaked to eat Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:55 AM PST 
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| Jan Bartelsman: 'I want to make you hungry with photos' Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST  Jan Bartelsman was handed a camera on his 11th birthday; during his teens, he picked up cooking. Little did he know he would eventually combine both and become a food photographer. "I was doing a lot of photography and was shooting the dishes at the little restaurant I worked in -- it was not so easy," says Bartelsman. "At some point, I quit all the cooking for photography." That was quarter of a century ago. Now 53, Bartelsman has published many photography books as well as two restaurant guides, "Dining in Amsterdam" and "Dining in New York City."    |
| Christian Vanneque and the world's most expensive bottle of white wine Posted: 04 Dec 2011 10:09 PM PST  For 62-year-old Christian Vanneque, a love of wine has taken him to one particularly unexpected place: the Guinness Book of World Records. Vanneque became the owner of the most expensive bottle of white wine ever sold when he paid US$117,000 for a bottle of 1811 Château d'Yquem earlier this year. The gaudy buy caps an impressive wine-industry career. At the tender age of 20, Vanneque was head sommelier at Paris' famed three-Michelin star La Tour d'Argent, making him France's youngest chef sommelier, and in charge, at the time, of the largest restaurant wine cellar in the world.    |
| Japanese tourist industry breathes seasonal sigh of relief Posted: 04 Dec 2011 10:08 PM PST  New figures from the national travel industry itself suggest the March disasters in northeast Japan have had no impact at all on people's plans to hit the road over the holiday season. According to JTB -- one of the biggest agencies in Japan -- more than 30 million people, or almost a quarter of the population, intend to travel for pleasure during the Christmas and New Year period. That's 1.5 percent up on last year -- not much, but evidence of an end to the "restraint" that's plagued the travel business since March 11.    |
| Freaky Japanese dishes, China's adoption tourism, Melbourne coffee culture Posted: 04 Dec 2011 08:01 PM PST Newsletter Date: 5 December 2011    |
| Palme d'Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasuthakul goes 'Primitive' Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST  "Primitive," the newest multimedia art installation by award-winning Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasuthakul, wasn't a contrived project. Now showing at Bangkok's Jim Thompson House until February 29, 2012, it's actually the third artistic expression to come out of an unplanned trip Apichatpong took to Nabua, a tiny village in northeast Thailand, in 2008. Music videos, sound installations and light experiments collected during his journey all represent a rarely discussed piece of history he only discovered by speaking with village elders. In the 1960s, the Thai government set its sights on Nabua's communist insurgents -- who also happened to be farmers -- and sent forces in to drive them out, ushering in two decades of military control.    |
| Adopt a Chinese baby, move to China Posted: 04 Dec 2011 01:57 PM PST  From the four corners of the earth, hopeful couples travel to China, whether to fulfil a longing to become parents or simply to add another child to their family. The bittersweet adoption odyssey is lengthy and packed with emotion -- but ultimately incredibly rewarding. Since the central government began allowing foreigners to adopt Chinese babies in 1992, international families have been required to finalize the adoption process on the mainland. These parents come from all over the world, ride buses to remote provinces, wait to settle details at government offices and, ultimately, are united with their new children.    |
| Cafe culture in Melbourne: 7 inner city villages Posted: 04 Dec 2011 11:58 AM PST  Street-side and hole-in-the wall, on laneways and in disused factories, Melbourne's inner city villages find a wealth of places to sip coffee. Throughout the city grid, there's many a nook and cranny where locals order flat whites and lattes -- announced with that characteristic Australian drawl -- for about $3. From ethnic hoods to trendy tram-side haunts, cups of espresso and frothed milk come with a cultural flavor. And a lot of breakfasts. Which means it's a good place for coffee.    |
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