Who designed a supply chain like this
Loyd Grossman’s Tomato and Chilli sauce is basically the arabbiata in their range of sauces, but it knocks every other version – Sacla, Sainsbury’s Safeway, Morrisons, Seeds of Change – in[…]

Num Num Tom Yum
About 18 months ago, I wrote about how my favourite noodles had seemingly disappeared. Blue Dragon Tom Yum RIP. I eventually wrote to Blue Dragon, who advised me to go to their SE London stockest, a shop which turned out to be really[…]

forbidden fruits-de-mer
when i shared a flat w.sistrah becky there were three things i wz not allowed to eat unless she wz away for several days
i. baked beanz ii. rollmop herring iii. smoked oysters
well i just rediscovered those little john west[…]

My chair shame.
Until last night it had been a while since I broke a chair. Having destroyed seating in Pete’s flat and two separate gites I should have realised my chair-breaking days were not behind me.
Last night I felt the chair go a while […]

The Retro Bar Pop Quiz!
Everyone loves the Retro Bar Pop Quiz, I always wonder why I don’t go there more. Anyway Alan suggested it and there was a groundswell of pro-quiz feeling which led to not one, but two FT-related teams locked in a privat[…]

MOST ORGANIC PUB EVAH!
The Duke Of Cambridge on St Peter’s Street in Islington prides itself on being an organic gastropub. Perhaps prides is not strong enough. Puffs itself out with so much self satisfaction about absolutely everything being o[…]

diet a success: dieter scarily hott and smugg (cont.)…
D. ca ma-ca-ren kho coi thit ba chi (vietnamese mackerel cooked in a pot lined with belly pork) ok mackerel is VERY CHEAP and VERY OILY, and the oiliness is what some ppl find offputting ([…]

KITCHEN SCIENCE
What happens when you cook a garlic and coriander naan bread for eight hours.
a) It goes very very black, and very very hard but does not produce much smoke.
b) You lose all respect from your flatmates who ask you never to cook when y[…]

Cocktail Clampdown: alcohol cannot, apparently, be linked with ‘sexual promiscuity’, so the likes of Sex On The Beach are out. The aphrodisiac properties of these names had escaped me – booze lowers inhibitions, and it doesn’t[…]

Fancyapint.com’s State of Pubbing Survey has a curious range of choices for its “biggest problem in pubs today” question. I’m no CAMRA head, as you’re probably aware, but to have NO option for anything relating to qualit[…]