Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Who Wants Italian
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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My Agricultural Genius In the House of Lords!
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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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXIV
Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds, I’m pretty sure.
click to enlarge!
I love the first step the most. “Are you in Canada?” “Yes.” “Tim Hortons.”
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXIII
DARE Iced Coffee: Boss<br/>
There’s also the girlfriend version here.
Curtsy: Brett McS.
And oh how I howled.
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Kate Moss For the NHS (And ObamaCare!)
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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Complete Traditional Recipe Book? Sold!
<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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In Praise of Booze and HM the QM
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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Of Italian Luncheons and Electric Cars
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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The Trial of M&S's Teacakes
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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Packing
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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I Call This: "Strawberries on an Airport Vinyl Seat"
At the airport for a quick weekend jaunt to Edmonton for a birthday party. Shall I get myself arrested and hope to meet the blogger formerly of The Policeman’s Blog? Perhaps not. In the meantime, mustn’t take fresh fruit across the border. Nummers nummers!
Extensive linkage in an open thread tomorrow. Today, marvel at these strawberries. [...]
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Cook Porn II
The company that made our fridge (made by Kiwis!) came out with a new, under-the-counter model:
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And Now I Feel Like Making a Strawberry Jam Sandwich
The Times – Cometh the hour, cometh the jam sandwich<br/> Sweet, cheap and comforting. With its new jam sarnie, M&S has surely launched the snack for our recessionary times, by Giles Smith
So that’s an economic look at food. For a food look at food, there’s also a bunch of unlikely looking “British” recipes from Gordon Ramsey’s [...]
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Le Café
Give Up, It'll Never Happen, It's All Hopeless, and Other Fatalist Phrases
RC2 just linked to this:
The (Seattle?!) Examiner – Dump the drinking age and let 18-year-olds have a legal beer
But as those of you who have been following my ranting on Twitter this afternoon… Four couples at the company (out of the 9 in permanent relationships and biologically capable of procreation) are pregnant. And Peter just [...]
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