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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…

Categories: Food

Mark Steyn being chipper and optimistic again on the subject of the West in general and in this case, a favourite topic of ours in particular:

Or take Scotland. Most anywhere you go around the planet, from Hong Kong to Hudson’s Bay, almost everything that works was created and developed by Scotsmen. Now the [...]

Categories: History

More hardware store misery, too. John Stossel, via Mark Steyn:

For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

BBC – South Africa HIV-row minister Tshabalala-Msimang dies

South African ex-Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, criticised for questioning whether HIV causes Aids, has died aged 69 from liver disease. Her critics dubbed her “Dr Beetroot” for her advocacy of healthy eating rather than drugs to fight HIV. … [A] [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

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.”

Categories: Food

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, [...]

Categories: Food

The Sunday Times – Friendship sticks a steak knife into smug soirees, by India Knight

According to a piece of perhaps not entirely academic research from the University of Sussex — it was commissioned by Hardys, the Australian wine brand — the traditional dinner party is dying out. It has been replaced by “more [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – The obese want to have their equality cake and eat it too, by India Knight

Whatever else may or may not have gone on with the fat family — and social services seem to be indicating that weight is only one component — being so irresponsible that you make your [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I have an Amazon order whizzing its way towards me at the speed of UPS Ground! (I’m going to do little ads to do this cuz it’s easier than text links with all the cuttin’ and pastin’):

For the baby! Someday I’ll do a page of all the books we’ve bought her. She has some [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

<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 [...]

Categories: Food

WSJ – The Conscience of a Capitalist<br/> The Whole Foods founder talks about his Journal health-care op-ed that spawned a boycott, how he deals with unions, and why he thinks CEOs are overpaid.

Why did he write the piece in the first place? “President Obama called for constructive suggestions for health-care reform,” [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I don’t think RC2’s a fan:

Wheat & Weeds – In Which I Side Against The British PM

Why must we pretend that an organization which exists to misspend money, enrich apparatchiks, make sex-slave rings of girls in war zones, fund China’s forced abortion policy, give international venues to holocaust deniers, dictators and mass murderers, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

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 [...]

Categories: Food

I saw in the wee hours this morning that Norman Borlaug has died, aged 95. I first discovered him on the occasion of his 91st birthday, and since then we’ve found him mentioned in the Andes, and getting the Congressional Gold Medal, over a year ago now (I would have sworn it was earlier this [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

NYT – Big Food vs. Big Insurance, by MICHAEL POLLAN

No one disputes that the $2.3 trillion we devote to the health care industry is often spent unwisely, but the fact that the United States spends twice as much per person as most European countries on health care can be substantially explained, as a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events