I generally like Nigel Slater. I think he is a good demystifier of cooking and understands the joy of quick comfort food. However, flicking through Real Food about a year ago, the veggie section, I came across and admission that he had never really c[…]

Okay, so I was in Morocco last week. Nice place, and I’ll come back to some of the culinary joys soon (not to mention finally finding the wife to Budweiser’s King Of Beers). But one of the joys of being in a foreign country can be having […]

This appears to be a heartwarming story about a couples enduring love and the belief in the efficacy of the canned food process.
However, looking at the story from a different angle the headline clearly should have been:
OLD COUPLE SICK OF FIFTY YEAR[…]

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An interesting look at the claims made about so-called friendly foods from the Guardian, foods where claims are for active boosting of immune systems, intelligence, gut-rot. Of course the Guardian and The Observer can talk, Dr John Briffa has now usu[…]

So basically, despite an enormous amount of media time and plod money being spent on looking for trouble, violent crime has fallen since flexible licensing hours came in. Good news all round – cheers![…]

Been using it for years, and this has never popped into my mind until a couple of days ago. A query regarding our old firey friend Ginger.
Why is ginger ginger? Or more accurately, why are ginger people ginger? All the ginger I have ever eaten has be[…]

In yr face St John!
(OK maybe not – alert readers will be able to spot the exact point at which this human coyote loses me, and I suspect many others…)[…]

Samuel Smith’s lager range in new twist!
OK in the good old days, now cruelly tooken from us, you had:
AYINGERBRAU = honest yeoman of lagers, man in a box.
PRINZ = vaguely spivvy premium effort with a blue stein.
D PILS = ‘ultra-premium&#[…]

‘Pret Burns’[…]