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Saint-Marcellin & La Tur (Cheesy Lovers 8 & 9)
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— 24 Jul 2009 marna 2 comments

Saint-Marcellin
Cheese stats: A soft raw-milk cow’s cheese from Lyon, France
Bought from: Une Normande à Londres
This is a small round cheese, packed in its own little clay dish, pale and creamy with a white bloom on the outside. Breaking into[…]

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Leave Big And Majestic To The Yanks
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— 24 Jul 2009 Pete Baran 6 comments

And so its BRITAIN’S GRAND CANYON WATCH, with a new contender throwing his deep and awesome hat into the ring. Because London already has a Grand Canyone of course, which I always assumed would double nicely as BRITAIN’S GRAND CANYON. But[…]

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Is Lady Gaga The American KLF?*
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— 24 Jul 2009 Tom 16 comments

Frustrating thinkpiece by Ann Powers on Lady Gaga and an apparent turn to theatricality in pop. Frustrating because what I want it to do is zero in a bit more on what Gaga’s “persona” that “never breaks” is and instead i[…]

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