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B for Belgium, B for Beer

By popagandhi | Published: 15 October, 2009
After a long hiatus, we’re (finally) back with new Fortylove.tv videos. This week: we go to Belgium in search of some of the best beers in the world at Brouwerij Westvleteren, where Trappist monks still produce beer according to ancient recipes. Next week: we circle back to Dubai to feature Hiba Rasheed, the Sudanese spoken [...]
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Baby, You Can Pimp My Shaw

By popagandhi | Published: 6 February, 2009
It’s Friday morning, 8 am — the weekend for me. I haven’t slept, I haven’t left the office, which just means there’s a new eps on fortylove tv. The premise was pure genius. Take an Indian auto-rickshaw. Put foreigner inside. Make foreigner drive 1000 kilometres to the southernmost tip of India in it. I had [...]
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Martinis for the Monarchy

By popagandhi | Published: 30 January, 2009
New episode on fortylove.tv: if every member of British royal family were to be a drink, what would they be? Our friend Mickael Perron, a champion mixologist — some of you may be a fan: he’s sometimes in Singapore’s cocktail institution, Klee, but mostly at various bars around London — shows us how guerrilla bar-tending [...]
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Fortylove.tv is Rolling

By popagandhi | Published: 22 December, 2008
Forty videos, twenty weeks. Begins now at fortylove.tv. Is English food really bad? Is Dubai really all about malls, construction, and refrigerated beaches and indoor ski resorts? Who in their right mind would travel 1000 kilometres by auto rickshaw in India? (No one, except the 27 contestants of the Rickshaw Challenge.. and.. me, it seems.) [...]
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