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I scream, you scream, we all scream….in horror!
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This is apparently a limited edition of Guinness Marmite (or is that “Marmite – Guinness”?) available from 19 Feb 2007. Your exercise, dear reader, is to guess the Target Demographic. I personally have no idea.
Exercise 2: what do y[…]

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really bony easy fish soup #2: BLAFF!
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This is a snapper stew from Martinique: Sophie Grigson who i stealed it from spells it w/o the exclamation mark but — tho daughter of POET she be – – she is clearly WRONG, as proven by Bopkids Lollardry heretofore. Can be served wi[…]

don’t eat the glowing squirrels
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NJ officials say: don’t eat the squirrels, they’re contaminated with toxic waste
Where do I even begin???
Is this why the various revisions of Joy of Cooking don’t have entries on how to skin and prepare squirrels anymore?[…]

The Top 50 Women Who Really Understand Men
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 Irrational. Contradictory. Mad. The top 50 is an irrational list. But what do you expect – it was voted for by men!
We at Freaky Trigger towers were shocked when we saw the Observer Woman Magazine’s Top 50 Men Who Really Understand Wome[…]

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“we hear nothing of their butter”
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in the course of routine pie debate in Another Place, i came across this TREASURE TROVE: cookery tips from the reign of good king dick![…]

Food Science Day 2: 7 – Flying Fruit Followup
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2005’s hugely successful Flying Fruit Experiment answered a burning question but gave rise to another. The small and unassuming apricot was the winner but supply problems meant that this was the only bum-shaped fruit available in our sample. We beg[…]

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FOOD SCIENCE DAY 2: cheese that’s good to fry part 2
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The experiment continued: finding which cheeses are good if you fry them. This time I used my tiny wee small frying pan bcz a. i had to carry it by bus to the HOUSE OF THE BOPKIDS and b. it is teh cuet.
Cheeses tested previously: i. red leicester; ii[…]

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khymos.org
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Meet our new best friends. khymos.org “a blog/website dedicated to molecular gastronomy” as they say. Poifect. Good place to start: boiling eggses.
The blog is at blog.khymos.org where you can currently find a recipe for “Chocolate […]

The Long Egg Race
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Ah, our favourite topic, and FreakyTrigger had Long Egg’s a-go-go all through 2006. And then we got a comment about the EggBoiler. And if you go to the site, the impressive computer generated effects seem to have cracked our various opinions to[…]

I remember you well, The Warrington Hotel
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The Warrington Hotel was the first pub I visited after moving to London in the summer of 1994. As such, it skewed my expectations of the city’s hostelries: not only was the bar itself a gloriously over-the-top shrine to art nouveau glass, carve[…]

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  1. Yes, he’d been “…making this since FOUR—TEEN YEARS OF AGE”. As if this culmination of exquisite ingredients could ever let…