Slumping sweet booze Baileys is apparently to follow the conspicuous lack of success of “Baileys Glide” with two new variants, aiming to make Christmas drinking even more sickly. They are “Baileys With A Hint Of Mint” (could s[…]

Harry Potter pushes jellybean science TOO FAR.[…]

An ongoing Food Science Day enquiry is to determine whether tasty recipes can be derived from appalling puns. Previous experiments such as Lychees on Toast and the almost legendary Thymey Calaloo Dow’s Port have shown that there is much potential i[…]

Category: Railway
The traditional English pub: a place where blokes go to drink. On their own, with their friends. That’s it, really. Sometimes you don’t want any more. Often, no more is offered. (more…)[…]

Aren’t pubs great? Big social levellers, allowing us to drink perfectly brewed and measured pints and spirits, allowing us to enjoy each others company without worrying about who is going to clean up the fag ash from the floor. I prefer pubs to[…]

(this recipe is adapted from claudia roden’s 1968 classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food) (warning: it takes abt three hours from start to finish, but you can do other things during almost all of this)
GET THIS:
1 x aztec marmite (or equiv)
1 x […]

We are so used to various foods being bigged up as the next superfood, packed with nutritious goodies to keep us zingingly alive, that it has become difficult to be surprised by the next pick. One day its pomegranates, next its mandarins, then macker[…]

Category: Nearly-Railway
They had been long, dry months, but after a lengthy break from Railwaying, it was time to kick off the project once again. Keeping it local seemed the right way to start, and The Railway Telegraph is the nearest Railway to ho[…]

Marmite Chicken may not seem particularly scientific. Indeed there is not an awful lot of science involved in much of Food Science Day’s initial ideas. Nevertheless the principle of science -to test a hypothesis to breaking point is the point o[…]

Further to Pete’s post about the Intrepid Fox, the deal Mitchell and Butler have done, according to this story, effects more than then just a few metallers:
It has been sold along with 20 other central London pubs as part of a £53 million deal[…]