The Best Spiral Chip in the World Ever!

It had it all – a perfect curl, even, tight, long. More spring made from potato than chip.
This chip prompted a pub debate about how on earth spiral chips get made? Do they liquify spuds then squeeze the[…]

Thank you, Wales
One of the only, in fact, now I come to think of it, the ONLY good thing about our local Safeways transition to a Morrisons is that they have started stocking laver bread. So that’s what I had yesterday. On toast. With cockles […]

“Don’t play with your food!”
This stern injunction has blighted many a child’s teatime as a project for turning sausage and mash into a happy face is scuppered midway. Surely parents remember that playing with food is usually […]

EGGS BACON CHIPS AND BEANS: a blog stumbled across whilst searching for a decent café or coffee house for a non-alcoholic central London meetup. An absolutely SMASHING little blog filled of delicious pictures of fry-ups and great reviews. READ IT NO[…]

Pub Olympics: the idea of a pub olympics has long been a pet one and often half-heartedly discussed among my fellow disciples of Organised Fun. However I now have the power to turn idea into action – for our work charity each country is putting[…]

The publog has wanted to do something like the Onion AV Club’s survey of crap snack foods for quite some time. We can all be food scientists after all. Was the largest ingredient in Kola Rollerball’s really aluminium? Was their any food v[…]

I had heard a rumour that prawn cocktail was back on fashionable restaurant menus and yesterday I had it confirmed. I was having a business supper at Inn The Park, a wooden ‘British cafe’ at the swankier end of St. James’ Park. Cure[…]

Whistle while you drink — the Snow White Cafe in Hollywood was chosen as a meeting spot by a number of us in LA on Saturday pre-disco movie madness across the street at the Egyptian. The selling point is that ol’ Walt himself started the[…]

“Fancy popping round for a quick parsnip?” For some reason, these ads have sprung up on the side of buses. An ad for coffee. Not an ad, you will notice, for any particular coffee. Nescafe is no long attacking us with Trinny and Susannah t[…]

Sausages 4Ever: this is going to be the best blog in the world.[…]