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A restaurant review in The Times: Giles Coren reviews Brasserie Joël, London SE1

What preposterous gastronomic oxymoron to serve such stellar names of old rural France in this wizened prepuce of an urban planner’s foetid, guilty nightmare?

I love it.

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I saw that kerfuffle play out on Twitter and I must say, I got the impression that if he was, he’d be hailed as visionary by the new government. It seemed like that kind of snipe.

The Times – Janice Turner: It was a supersize gaffe to diss Jamie, minister

About that column: I concur. Paywall!

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Wheat & Weeds – Mostly For Ms. R (nee M)

Awesome.

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Telegraph – Australians ‘don’t give a XXXX’ as they abandon beer for wine

Beer consumption in Australia has dropped to a 60-year-low as the younger generation abandons the “amber nectar” in favour of wine.

Oh noes!

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Thank God for Easter Week.

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I’ve never heard of Rose Gray, nor her restaurant, but reading India Knight write about eating (and going into labor, and continuing eating) there, makes me want to go there. Failing that, I can buy the cookbook…

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Rueful Red reports:

From yesterday’s House of Lords: Asked By Baroness Rawlings To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to promote sustainable livelihoods for the people of Afghanistan. Lord Brett: My Lords, providing sustainable livelihoods and economic opportunities for Afghans is critical [...]

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Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds, I’m pretty sure.

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I love the first step the most. “Are you in Canada?” “Yes.” “Tim Hortons.”

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DARE Iced Coffee: Boss<br/>

There’s also the girlfriend version here.

Curtsy: Brett McS.

And oh how I howled.

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The Times – Kate Moss: an icon of willpower and strength<br/> Don’t damn the supermodel for being honest. If you want to be thin, you have to eat less. And thin is much better than fat, by Giles Coren (the food critic)

Asked during an interview with a fashion website if she had any mottoes, [...]

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<img src=”http://www.ninme.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/natrustcookbook.jpg” alt=”Complete Traditional Recipe Book” title=”Complete Traditional Recipe Book” width=”177″ height=”230″ size-full wp-image-11706″ align=”left” style=”margin-right:10px” />This will be mine.

This sumptuous collection of over 300 of the best traditional British recipes from the National Trust provides the tastiest food that has stood the test of time. Choose from favourites such as Bread and [...]

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The Sunday Times – And so I say chin-chin to all you tiresome moralisers, by India Knight

There is an argument to be made in favour of really heroic drinking, and after a week that brought the publication of an authorised biography of the Queen Mother as well as the death of Keith Floyd [...]

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I really like Leo Lewis, the Times’ Asia correspondent:

The rip-off kings It was easy to snigger at the tale of Yasuyuki Yamada, his girlfriend and their €700 lunch in the Piazza Navona, Rome, last week. Hilarious stereotypes abounded: insouciant young Japanese far from home, naively placing the task of menu [...]

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Telegraph – Let them eat crisps<br/> Telegraph View: The half-baked truth about Pringles.

Pringles, the law has declared, are no longer cakes, but crisps. This has cost their makers £100 million in VAT. Last year, the law declared that Pringles were not crisps, but a cakey kind of thing. It is not so much that [...]

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I’ve got another flight to Edmonton to catch tomorrow morning and I’m finding the logistics of packing just impossible to digest right now. So, here’s a picture of the awesome chicken yakisoba I made last night. Imagine a non-cellphone pic looking twice as delicious:

Update: Brett McS has announced that he’ll be attending Abbey’s Bookshop in [...]

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