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Searching for soul

Author. Leisha Jones — 04/ 10/ 2017

Bourbon Street in New Orleans is the kind of place you have to see at least once in your life, but once is probably enough. The long, wide street is lined with bars all trying to out-sell each other with offers of huge beers, free refill drinks, and three-for-one shots. The loose liquor laws in the city mean you can buy a drink at any time of the day, some bars stay open all night, and everywhere you go you’ll be offered a to-go cup so you can cruise the streets with your cocktail.

Searching for soul
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Baja Mexico

Author. Stone Soup — 04/ 10/ 2017

Hurtling through dark streets surrounding seemingly empty neighbourhoods in Tijuana, bursts of bright light revealed bustling taco stands. Like a fever dream, so vivid and unexpected. It was nearing midnight and we wandered to find a late-night snack. The taco stands were sometimes the only lights on the street where the neighbourhood gathered. Despite the hour kids were out in pyjamas dancing under the pool of light, slipping in and out of darkness.

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Organics: Radical? Or just good business?

Author. Stone Soup — 05/ 09/ 2017

Ben Bostock is curious and infectiously energetic, he can’t sit still and paces as he talks on his phone which rings constantly. He is humble and totally transparent when explaining his work. This is refreshing in an industry that is notorious for keeping secrets, farm gates firmly closed to the media. His knack for keeping things simple and focusing on the crucial elements of his operation have seen Bostock’s Organic Free Range Chicken expand quickly. Ben makes a great farmer.

Organics: Radical? Or just good business?
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Maine: The Land of Wild...

Author. Lottie Hedley — 01/ 03/ 2017

In Maine cars have borne the motto “Vacationland” on their number plates since the 1930s. Summer temperatures in the late 20s, lakes, county fairs, lobster rolls and fried clams, farm stands, a long coastline dotted with islands, hiking and the sense that you’ve escaped the rat race and potentially gone back to a slower, quieter, friendlier time are some of the reasons many tourists flock there for the summer months.

Maine: The Land of Wild...
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Bung Ah Thah – Breakbreat ft. Stone Soup

Author. Stone Soup — 21/ 02/ 2017

The first time I met a member of the Mon community, a persecuted ethnic minority from Hongsawadee (now Burma), was in a classroom for adult refugees. Nai Loot had an infectious smile which made you feel you weren’t in a bad place in the world.

I was astounded by how hard this man worked – he was the child whisperer of his community, spending mornings and afternoons shuttling around to collect various children for other parents so they could maintain jobs to bring the rice home. Between the chaos, he spent each day learning English to further himself in a country he had to call his new home.

Bung Ah Thah – Breakbreat ft. Stone Soup
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Winner winner kina dinner

Author. Leisha Jones — 10/ 06/ 2016

My first taste of kina was as a doe-eyed Daddy’s girl, fishing off the rocks with my father. I looked up at him as if he were Jacques Cousteau, as he pulled his diving knife out of its holster and picked up a kina off the rocks. He crudely ripped the top off, gave it a quick dunk in the ocean and urged my sister and I to try it. It was too much for my little body to handle, and what resulted was a symphony of tears, retching and wailing as I clawed at my tongue and tried to rinse the sour taste out of my mouth with seawater. Cheers, Dad…

Winner winner kina dinner
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DJ Katapila

Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016

With his debut album Trotro, Ghanian producer DJ Katapila (government name: Ishmael Abbey) re-imagined the rhythms of the traditional Ga music of his homeland through a lens coloured by 90s Detroit techno, Chicago acid house and the club music styles of the Ivory Coast and Togo. In the process, he codified twenty years of working experience as a mobile DJ into a singular sound. While after its release in 2009, Trotro garnered Ishmael a degree of recognition around West Africa, its recent international re-release through Awesome Tapes From Africa looks set to take him around the world.

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Olive Harvest

Author. Fiona Smith — 10/ 06/ 2016

For a young New Zealand girl, growing up on a quarter-acre section in central Auckland, growing and pressing your own olive oil seemed the reserve of the elite, with acres of rolling hills in the country. My Italian neighbours would tell of their yearly olive harvest and I imagined their estate in southern Italy, complete with majestic villa and the aforementioned hills. Many years later, while backpacking through Europe, I visited my old neighbours in their small seaside village of Scauri. No majestic villa. No rolling hills. Big disappointment.

Olive Harvest
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