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If you're looking for inexpensive, filling, and tasty vegetarian dining in East London... A friend of mine went on to me for weeks about this amazing Indian food. She would announce when she was going and tell me her woes when they ran out of the dish she wanted. She expressed to me her constant craving for this so-called amazing ...

I am an American expat living in the UK, and I am happy to be living here; food is one of the greatest reasons. Even while I fear this country is going in the same direction as the US in terms of unhealthy diet and an unhealthy relationship with food, I still feel much happier with my diet here in England. People here don't go out to eat ...

"Little wha??" you say? Soldiers, marmite men, same thing. I call them marmite men just to be difficult (and by that I mean to annoy my husband, an effect with seems to have worn off over time. Damn...) You see, overcoming marmite was one of my greatest and most proud achievements in the journey to integration into British life. Now it's ...

Anyone who knows me will know I'm a huge fan of Starbucks (yeah, yeah, I know). Their coffee is 98% of the time completely reliable across the globe. The problem I have with a lot of coffee places is that their standards change constantly. I'm sure when you've got the quality of an espresso machine as afforded by Starbucks ...