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Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 03/12/2015
» I love food, and I live in Bangkok, and I am young and hip. And my daddy is rich. So I'm going to open a hip restaurant in Bangkok for young people with my rich daddy's money. Now, you must possess passion. Luckily, passion I have in droves! If I were a plant, my friends tell me, I'd be a passion fruit tree. Imagine that! That's how much I love food! I might even venture as far as to call myself a highfalutin gourmandiser.
Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 03/11/2015
» One summer when I was young, my mother, my younger brother Clay and I piled into the family Chevrolet Blazer -- a tan-coloured vehicle we had inexplicably named Sparky -- to make the eight-hour trip south, from Fort Worth to Kingsville, Texas, where my grandparents lived (and still do) in a stately white house that as far as I can tell has stood there since the dawn of time.
Guru, Adam Kohut, Published on 18/09/2015
» In approximately one month, people will gather to watch amateur, half-naked men punch each other in the mouths. The purpose? To save mouths.
Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 07/05/2015
» '[As Thais] we only adopt, poorly. We're not creating anything new. But such is the way of the Thai mentality. We don't lead. We follow. We want something we're used to. We like imitations. As content consumers, we like junk food."
Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 22/04/2015
» In my high school history class, when we couldn't avoid paying attention any longer, we would half-heartedly thumb through battered textbooks with broken spines, turning pages so stained with oil from generations of hands that they had become translucent as fast-food burger wrappers.
Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 16/04/2015
» It is 10.30am on a Sunday morning, and I, along with around a dozen other reporters, am seated in a conference room on the ninth floor of a hotel in George Town, on Malaysia's Penang Island.
Life, Adam Kohut, Published on 17/03/2015
» My boss, an Irishman named Chris, is fond of telling me that I come from "the land of gleaming white teeth and expressing yourself". He's not far off. My father is a dentist and my sister Amanda, a cheerleader throughout high school, is now a social emotional counsellor who works with children.