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Off the Plate
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 08/06/2012
» When you think of the eating ritual, you normally think of putting an end to a growling stomach while pleasing the tastebuds, right? In Thailand, however, there have been incidents where food has become more than just food and people have eaten for other reasons besides bodily obedience. Here are six examples of how Thai people have strangely incorporated food into their way of living. Warning: You may never look at food the same way again.
Hypnotic epic
Life, Plalai Faifa, Published on 02/03/2012
» Most of the mysteries referred to in the title are of the kind found in those immense, ultra-melodramatic serialised novels that kept 19th-century readers waiting for the next issue. The generous documentary extras included with this new release explain that the super-prolific Camilo Costelo Branco, whose 1854 serial novel Mysteries of Lisbon is adapted here, sometimes wrote these long-running, cliffhanging narratives. So here we have all of the mothers dead in childbirth, multiple identities, long-shot coincidences, crimes of passion, stories-within-stories-within-stories, and other tasty ingredients that make those books fun to read even today.