Food and 1st anniversary

Hello subscribers!

As announced in last Sunday’s DT Newsletter, our latest theme poll had joint winners, and the first one, Dark Tourism & Food was posted on Monday. Amongst other things it featured food that had a dark association simply for the location it was consumed in counting as a dark tourism destination, and that included North Korea. The photo above shows a nice spread of little delicacies served at a traditional restaurant in Kaesong, North Korea. It was actually very tasty. Also served there, however, was dog soup. Eating dog meat is pretty alien to Westerners (and I did not try it!), but to some the same applies to horse meat, though that is considered a prized delicacy in some parts of the world such as Kazakhstan.

Some “icky” food such as grubs and insects featured too, but also food that is dark in a historical context, such as soldiers’ rations from the Falklands War. Finally the post featured dangerous food, such as potentially toxic pufferfish in Japan or fruit growing in contaminated areas of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Next week I’ll bring you the second winner of the poll, Dark Tourism & Pianos.
  

This week also saw a second blog post that went online on Friday. That was 28 May, exactly one year after the very first post on this blog went up. To mark this blog’s first anniversary I reposted twelve of my favourite photos from the blog that had appeared there over these past twelve months.

In it I also asked for readers to pick their own most favourite photo from the blog, either by just choosing one out of my selection of twelve, or nominating any other photo that can be found on the blog.

So please make a choice and leave a comment stating your favourite photo underneath this anniversary post!!!
  

For my main website I’ve been busy working on more chapters for the various WW1-related sites in the Somme region of France. These are now finished and will be uploaded shortly. After that I have to turn my attention to Verdun, which will also be a lot of work and won’t be any easier (if anything it has the potential to be even harder). But after that I can finally leave the topic of WW1 behind and turn to other things.

So much for this Newsletter.

Have good week and stay safe!

Best

Peter