Even though I study and eat Japanese, I’ve always wondered who managed to come up with the name POKARI SWEAT?!? Ridiculous yo![…]

Since curries are the flavah of da month (sigh…), I wanted to pitch in with my favourite curry dishes. I think one of the first food preparations I served my boyfriend was a completely faux curry from some Hawaiian cook book. It’s basical[…]

Once upon a time in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, a glorious gin palace in Liverpool, I was using the grade-II listed Purbeck marble gents stalls. A bunch of American tourists, mostly women, some with camcorders, came in and started looking around. […]

Settled into one of my usual neighborhood diner haunts this weekend, as I normally do, with a copy of the New York Times and a cuppa coffee. One of those real American kinds of diners where you can get eggs made fifteen different ways and the chocola[…]

Idiot Pete! – it’s not “Pink Clove”, it’s “Pink Cloves“, a search for which takes you right here.
NB Words are failing me when it comes to describing the Pink Cloves experience – maybe later.
NNB My God[…]

Raisin Hell: only last weekend I found myself talking with an American friend about the differences in quality and style between curries bought in the UK and those from the US. One of the dishes she liked about her favourite Stateside curry emporium […]

The same dish – elsewhere. I was at the cinema (quelle surprise) on Saturday and fancied a bite before I drifted off to the pub. A walk past Miso, on Haymarket, garnered the fact that they did a dish called Malaysian Chicken Curry and Rice. For[…]

Pub Quiz Etiquette: A team with several publog regulars won a pub quiz last night. A team with several more publog regulars came second. Total swag – ’50 of drinks vouchers. But this morning it’s hard to feel too proud – the t[…]

Sweet Cred[…]

Those wacky Middle Agers!!:
“WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate this recipe, as lime is highly caustic and potentially dangerous; it should never be used in cooking.”
(Ingredient availability permitting – haha peacock unlikely &#[…]