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May 31
The pleasures and pitfalls of dining out
"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." George Carlin Last night we dined out with...
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May 30
Information overload? A website
"Everyone says they love food, but do you know food?" Home Page Introduction These are the three people responsible for a website called...
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May 29
Poutine - trendy junk food
"when seen for the first time, poutine looks like a culinary catastrophe." Rebecca Nicholson/The Guardian Indeed it does, but then...
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May 28
An empty week
"One seventh of your life is spent on Monday." Aldous Huxley Actually it is now Tuesday, which demonstrates some of what I was going to...
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May 25
Making cheese at home
Ricotta, cottage cheese, paneer - what else? This was just going to be about ricotta because Rachel Roddy was waxing lyrical about it in...
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May 24
Romanticising poverty?
"Strand sought to find a peasant world and reconstitute a preindustrial purity he could no longer grasp in his own country." Maria...
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May 23
The infinite variety of harira
"I have made this soup several times in a row and I think it may be the most delicious thing ever" Annabel Crabbe Yesterday we went to a...
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May 20
Soupçons
"soupçon - a very small amount." Cambridge Dictionary In French it also means a suspicion. So let's stay French - well only in that...
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May 19
A sort of French heritage
"What had stuck was the taste for a kind of food quite ideally unlike anything I had known before. Ever since, I have been trying to...
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May 18
Dithering over dinner
"Dithering - present participle of dither - to be unable to make a decision about doing something" Cambridge Dictionary Tonight I was...
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May 17
Boring? But I'll persevere
"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me." Dylan Thomas You've probably noticed that I've been a bit uninspired of late. Indeed my...
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May 16
Tablecloths
"A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be...
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May 15
Persuasion
"This would be a recipe to convert anyone who thinks celery is boring." Bee Wilson Well if you can persuade them to try it in the first...
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May 14
What to do with those pickled onions
"open mouth, insert pickled onion, chew" TheSkewed/Reddit commenter Well yes indeed you - well I - could just eat them. And I have to...
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May 13
"Finland is the green vigour of a forest"
"Much Finnish cooking suggests the outdoors, the pleasures of the campfire." Dale Brown - Time/Life The Cooking of Scandinavia Finland...
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May 12
The pickles in my fridge
"sour, tart, punchy, pungent and slightly out there." Tara Wigley/OTK Yesterday I threw out half a tin of red kidney bins - I had put...
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May 11
Feeling lazy? Puttanesca to the rescue
"Puttanesca - Although you will often see its Italian name explained as meaning “whore’s pasta” in English, the general consensus seems...
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May 10
Knish - Jewish pasties
"It’s heavy, redundant, and resolutely mild — not remotely designed to ignite your taste buds in any way — but, at its best, it’s also...
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May 9
Vegetables then and now
"Vegetarianism wasn’t just perceived as a dietary choice but a lifestyle one. If you were veggie you were a hippie." Fiona Beckett/BBC...
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