Showing posts with label The Independent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Independent. Show all posts

September 8, 2013

Italian Food Faux Pas

"'[H]ow to avoid culinary horrors' in confronting Italian food.

There's one "culinary horror" I remember that isn't on the list: putting cheese—any cheese, whether Parmigiano-Reggiano or not—on a fish or seafood dish.

August 13, 2013

"Migrant Workers: Cheap Labour Value Pack"

A cartoonist at The Independent addressed the availability of cheap, migrant labor in England by modifying the Tesco grocery store's slogan, "Every little helps," to read "Every Lithuanian helps."

Here is the Lithuanian ambassador's response.
 
(For more on the perception of Lithuanians in Great Britain, click on the "migrant workers" label below, or see here and here.)

UPDATE: "[T]he deputy editor of The Independent has expressed that the cartoon was absolutely not criticism of Lithuania, of Lithuanians or of economic migrants."