The Food Standards Agency on that old chestnut, reheating rice.
“Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at[…]

Written by Louise Dann, a real actual scientist
Use by dates and the science behind them.
This actually isn’t scientific so much as a personal rant about injustices done to food in the name of health and safety. Having a quick squizz at the Foo[…]

I AM TOM CRUISE (OR POSSIBLY BRYAN BROWN).
For the first time in about ten years I went to a party, and I made a mystery cocktail. I actually made three. In bucket quantities. This was something which as an entertainment’s rep at college I use[…]

Just a quick note to vent my spleen.
THERE ARE NO KIDS IN THUNDERBIRDS.
You see there were so many things wrong with doing a Thurderbirds movie that it is physically impossible for it to be good. After all the source material is tedious supermarionat[…]

FT Top 100 Films
65: THREE MEN AND A BABY
Okay. I fail to see exactly what is so funny about the set-up. They are men. They have to look after a baby. Maybe the humour is devised from their differing fathering styles. One is over-protective, the othe[…]

A look at Fahrenheit 9/11 which I decided to post on the Wedge because it turned out I was talking more about Fahrenheit 451 than Michael Moore’s emotive, entertaining but ephemeral docu.[…]

Michael Moore did not ask Ray Bradbury if he could use Fahrenheit 451 as the basis for punning title of his anti-Bush film. Quite possibly if Bradbury were to take him to court it would come in as extra publicity for notoriously shy Mike. Nevertheles[…]

This week’s tale of abject incompetence by the UGC Shaftesbury Avenue comes courtesy of their 2:15 showing of Tupac: Resurrection on Saturday the 8th July. They got three of the reels in the wrong order. No-one else in the cinema seemed to noti[…]

Inspired by Sarah’s tale of woe last week, in writing rather than in deed.
I don?t suppose I have ever really considered the merits of the fast food packaged drink before. You know, the waxed paper cups, with their lids to aid rigidity and pre[…]

BBFC CERTIFICATE WATCH
The Story Of The Weeping Camel

U: Contains A Scene Of An Animal Being Born[…]