Hope to have time to blog the various gastronomic delights of our weekend in San Sebastian / Donostia soon. But just to bear in mind that this small Spanish town and its environs have more Michelin stars than anywhere else in the world. You can pick […]

apologies for talkin abt chocolate bars on a FOOD BLOG but here is an IMPORTANT WARNING
if like me you are in a small turkish cornershop of a morning queuing for ANADIN EXTRA cz you hf 1 x HORRIBLE PRESSURE HEADACHE, and you spot the woman behind the[…]

Whilst I am happy that the Wispa is back (it’s chocolate heaven, I ate it an hour ago and I’m still on a lovely bleary fuzzy high – Green & Blacks and Montezuma et al can just… fvck off until they get with the cocoa butter[…]

A trendy concept in marketing currently is occasion-based marketing – the idea is that rather than advertise the product, you advertise the occasion in which the product might be consumed. This is what the ad campaign for C2 – Carling&#82[…]

Things most people know about European languages  – One – Spanish for ‘beer’ is ‘cerveza’. Two – English is not in the same language family as French and Spanish. When looking at other European words for beer it is appa[…]

So a North Carolinan man decides to store his amputated leg in a barbeque smoker. This story should really be going somewhere else. But instead we have the trials and feud over the ownership of the leg when someone goes and sells the darn smoker.
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Ever felt your cheese platters to be somewhat lacking? But you never knew why? The answer is to hand: you were missing a Girolle! The Girolle is a device used to curl “Tete de Moine” (me neither) cheese into beautiful rosettes and if the […]

We love the Quin. Its one of those pubs you feel priviliged to know. Its that “lock-in pub”, where more times than not you have discovered that not only is it well past closing, but they are miraculously still serving. I have had no end o[…]

animals i et bits of last night inc.
i. autruche
ii. ane
iii. sanglier
iv. cerf[…]

Not on the list AT ALL when we entered the laboratory, this piece of pun based was invented on the spot. As with any great inventions it had necessity as its mother and sous chef. We had bought a bit too much Ye Olde Oake Ham. Now some of you might r[…]