Archives – 2006 – September – 01  

Really spoiling us
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— 1 Sep 2006 Tom 5 comments

A work meeting today gave me the opportunity to investigate for free the rarefied world of PREMIUM CHOCOLATE. Green and Blacks? Bendicks? Strictly middlebrow. Try Michel Cluizel, whose 1er Premier Crus de Plantations bars go for £3.50 per 100g. Not […]

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(Gaming) Kitchen Confidential: Cooking Mama!
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— 1 Sep 2006 Sarah 4 comments

Just in time for Food Science Day, I come across a new DS ‘eat-em-up’ entitled Cooking Mama! In this game you can “create 76 different, real world dishes from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls! The stylus is your master kitchen tool[…]

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What The Cover Of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn Would Look Like…
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— 1 Sep 2006 Tanya Headon 7 comments

If it had actually been left on an Autobahn in 1974.

Leaving this god-forsaken piece of vinyl on the Autobahn seems like a terrific idea to me, as was flyering all the record shops in the mid-eighties for the CD re-release with a much more appropria[…]

food science (supplementary): the QUATERMASS EGGzPERIMENT
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— 1 Sep 2006 mark sinker 14 comments

(held over from last year in the name of all that is holy promoting future enquiry)
AIM: To explore the viability of egg polycookery
APPARATUS: Many eggs, hot oil, wooden spoon, boiling saucepan, non-stick frying pan, wok. (more…)[…]

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