{"id":3457,"date":"2011-02-23T22:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2011-02-23T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:44:01","slug":"a-mandoline-from-penang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-mandoline-from-penang\/","title":{"rendered":"A mandoline from Penang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitecatsg\/5397759297\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5397759297_b6f226089a_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitecatsg\/5397759297\/\">Georgetown (Penang)<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/whitecatsg\/\">whitecat singapore<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our old plastic mandoline (i.e., vegetable slicer) had broken down to the extent that it normally cost me one finger per onion, so I found a new one at a good price from an online shop called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakingfrenzy.com\/\">Baking Frenzy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t investigate where the shop was based, but it appeared to be based in the UK, given that all prices were given in pounds.<\/p>\n<p>However, yesterday the postman turned up with a parcel covered in pretty Malaysian stamps, sent by a person with a Chinese name from an address in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Town,_Penang\">Georgetown<\/a>, Penang, Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The slicer is absolutely fine, although it has some signs of having been intended for sale in East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>I really love it when globalisation becomes almost personal like this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown (Penang) Originally uploaded by whitecat singapore Our old plastic mandoline (i.e., vegetable slicer) had broken down to the extent that it normally cost me one finger per onion, so I found a new one at a good price from an online shop called Baking Frenzy. I didn&#8217;t investigate where the shop was based, but it appeared to be based in the UK, given that all prices were given in pounds. However, yesterday the postman turned up with a parcel covered in pretty Malaysian stamps, sent by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}