One thing I did not expect to find in the UK is humongous food portions. I live in the US, so I’m no stranger to huge plates but even I am taken aback by the portion size around here. Yesterday I went to a very elegant and expensive restaurant that served me a plate of carrot and parsnip soup that tasted divine yet had the size of a small swimming pool:
I think I hurt the chef’s feelings by not finishing it but I’d have needed to stay there for a couple of days to eat it all.
By the way, since people are asking, here is the deconsecrated chapel where the conference feeds us:
It’s so big that it doesn’t fit into a single frame:
I’ve also been to a Jamie Oliver restaurant. I know somebody is a great fan, so it’s time for a spot of envy. 🙂
Here is me looking and feeling terribly jet-lagged and overfed:
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Sorry, the Internet connection doesn’t like all the photos. It should be up now.
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Since it’s also about food and cliff(?) recently asked about Russian cheese:
Congealed Tipp-Ex to odour of gym – Russia’s cheese fakers fail the taste test
Starved of imported cheese thanks to Moscow’s counter sanctions, domestic producers have tried to fill the gap with imitations that seldom satisfy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/10/congealed-tipp-ex-to-odour-of-gym-russias-cheese-fakers-fail-the-taste-test
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If only this were Russia’s greatest problem. Right now it’s like problem number one billion 98 million 673 thousand eleven.
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That’s a very nice photo of you!
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Thank you, you are so very kind.
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I wouldn’t have known you were jet lagged in that photo had you not said so.
🙂
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Ok, why is everybody so nice? I’m starting to get suspicious. 🙂
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So glad you are having a nice time at the conference and in Oxford. I love all the photos you have posted, even though they make me a bit homesick!
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Yes, Clarissa, the soup bowl is extremely wide, but it was only about a centimeter deep, right? That’s an old trick I remember some European restaurants using. 🙂
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That’s what I thought at first but then I reached inside and realized that the day of final judgment is closer than the bottom of that lake of soup. 🙂
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