About

Totallygone.com started out as a travelog in 2002, when I hit upon the idea of using a blog to stay in touch with friends during a 15-year-late gap year. I left Glasgow for Bangkok in the winter of '02, and San Francisco for London in spring…
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Fun-paqued cooking from the Middle Ages

The Échaudé takes its name from the French and means, literally, "scalded". Hurled briefly into boiling water before being thrown into a hot oven, this Easter speciality (hence the awful pun) hails from the Middle Ages, in whose times…
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Tardivo magnifico: worth the wait

Radicchio tardivo is a subspecies of chicory, and owes its striking colour to Francesco van den Borr, Belgian agronomist and inventor of the imbianchiamento technique, which uses scalding spring water to transform the colour of the leaves.…
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Death is Certain:
  notes from an Indian road trip

  Only Death is Certain Paradoxically, although nearly everyone gets sick in Delhi (myself excluded - I got sick a week after I left) it's easy to eat healthily. Fruit is fairly cheap, and at the juice bars on the Main Bazaar it's…
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No Shit

This morning I got a lesson in LETTING GO, when an opportunistic taxi driver relieved me of 350THB for a 60THB ride. Even though I followed my concierge's warning, taking a cab from a hundred yards away (rather than outside the hotel, where…