Let´s face it, most people would not put British cooking high in the list of best world cuisines. But maybe this English food blog containing a selection of delicious recipes and mouth-watering photos from Julia in Kent will convince you that there are still people in the UK who know where the kitchen is!

http://asliceofcherrypie.blogspot.com/

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More posts about food around the world from Topics of the World.

From the 8th Century, Muslim tradition and culture set trends in eating, music and style that still influence us today. Their experiments, discoveries and inventions with liquids, light and time opened the door to myriad new chemical compounds, measurements of time in precise and minute detail and devices used in space observation and deep sea exploration. Also a book has been published to collect this beautiful collection of information and images.

http://www.1001inventions.com

Putumayo is an amazing collection of special music from all over the world. Many CDs and for all tastes. Enjoy!

http://www.putumayo.com

China’s new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. 47 hours of sceneries from Beijing to Lhasa. All aboard the Tibet express, reading this article of the American magazine ‘Wired’

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/chinarail.html

The face of Tomorrow is a fascinating and original art project by Istanbul based photographer Mike Mike, attempting to address the effect of globalisation on identity. I quote below directly from the website because they explain it so much better than I can:

“The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in one or two hundred years if they were to become more integrated?

In Turkey and particularly in Istanbul, situated as it is at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, you can see how this process has been at work over the last thousand years as waves of humanity from Central Asia, Arabia, Greece and Rome have been absorbed. The resulting population is fairly uniform suggesting that if you could combine all the faces in a city right now you would be looking at the future face of that city.

The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What we get is a new person - a mix of all the people in that city. A face that doesn’t exist right now, but a face, it seems, of someone quite real”

http://faceoftomorrow.com/thefaces.asp

The Ozbus left London last week on its inaugural overland trip from London to Sydney, which will pass through Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, India, China and Malaysia (probably not in that order) According to Ozbus, this trip has become possible only recently due to improved road conditions in Indonesia. It may be a bit slower than flying, but it is definitely more scenic!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6996233.stm

This blog is activated once per year, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, so that muslims all over the world can share their experiences.

www.ramadankareem.blogspot.com

Picture: Ramadan in Kolkata from www.asianage.com