Ajooma

I’ve suffered from indigestion my whole life. I figured out early on my stomach is not very good at handling western food - flour & dairy. Living in England has not been kind to said organ. You think it wouldn’t be that hard, when I write it as flour and dairy, but it consists of […]

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I recently went to the London Transport Museum, located in the heart of Covent Garden. It’s a large exhibition space with lots to see, but a little bit on the pricey side.
As a graphic designer, the London Underground map, designed by Henry Beck in 1933 was a paradigm shift in the visualization of subway […]

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Mothering Sunday is a British holiday. In modern times it is essentially equivalent to Mother’s Day, which latter name is also increasingly used, but this is a recent development, and its history is quite different.

Mothering Sunday did not begin as a celebration of motherhood, but a synonym of Laetare Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar. […]

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The English like gardening, and I suppose to an extension flowers. They seem obsessed with maintaining their lawn. There are so many gardening shows on TV, something that would be unheard of in Korea, and so many magazines and book dedicated to the subject. There are not that many people in London who have gardens, […]

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This whole month has some Chinese event going on somewhere. The Terracotta Army have been guarding the British Museum for a few months now, there are scores of arts and culture events leading up the the Beijing Olympics later this year, and the New Years Celebration. Obviously there are lots of Chinese in the UK. […]

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Last Thursday I saw Dirty Dancing : The Musical, currently cheesing it up at the Aldwych Theater.
I am not a musical goer. In fact, I can’t stand them. I’m not sure why. I like watching professional dancers jitterbugging swinging jumping and jiving. I sit enthralled as Fred Astair moves. Nothing beats live performance. So what’s […]

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When I first came to London, I lived in Bromley, a suburbish area in zone 4. It’s only claims to fame were the dinky little train station that won a best platform award and that David Bowie grew up and got the hell out of there. I was still getting my bearings of not just […]

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Yesterday (Feb 5 2008) was Shrove Tuesday, originally a religious celebration, which now in the UK means eating pancakes. According to some Catholic or Christian tradition this is the day before Lent, where you fast and pray for 40 days before Easter. After all that abstinence you can then gorge on hard boiled eggs and […]

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Last November I went foraging for mushrooms in Wiltshire, which is between London and Cardiff. It’s a very small county stuck 20 years in the past, in the best way. I’ve never gone hunting for mushrooms before, or even gathering for wild food. I was very excited to throw off the yokes of industrialized food […]

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England is famous for many things. Ahead of the cultural curve (or so they think), strong financial market, soon host of the Olympics, hustle bustle town with something going on all the time. But a temperate climate is not one of them. Why pick on a negative when there are overwhelming positives abound? Because weather, […]

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