As a sort of penance for Zoe Williams’ rubbish piece (see below), the Guardian published this enlightening write-up of traditional kipper and herring production. As is often the case when I read a G2 article and think “hold on, this is in[…]

Zoe Williams is a funny writer but a lot of her longer pieces read like half-baked message board posts (and I should know). This one, railing against the current fashion for liver and bone marrow, is no exception. Williams builds a straw man that wou[…]

I would like one of these for my birthday please, June 21, thank you. Wow! It’s the Sunbeam PIE MAGIC 4! It basically a toastie maker, but instead of making toasties, makes REAL ACTUAL PIES. Dear lard I think I’ve died and gone to pie hea[…]

Supplement A
Well, it might not have been purchased from a shop dedicated to the art of fried poultry (and the occasional lipsmacking rib), but it was certainly very independent. Some greasy kebab shop on the Lower Clapton Road (of which there are m[…]

Underneath The Archesss….
Peckham Rye Station. Underneath. Now Neil Gaiman – King Of The Goths – wrote a shonky TV series called Neverwhere which took place in the forgotten places under London. Bar Story is the licensed establishme[…]

Now I ranted on Pepsi Max a couple of weeks ago (and no-one responded to its Maxiness). But now there is Pepsi Max Twist Lemon & Lime. It tastes, unsurprisingly, of copper sulphate. But it is the Max philosophy that I find amusing. Yet again we […]

‘I wish there was an Upper Crust here’
Edinburgh Aiport yesterday, on discovering that there was bugger all food to be had for breakfast in the departure lounge.
* ooh look – it’s another Freaky Trigger series that I’ll […]

Stressed PM turns to cheese
No, not a radical world domination plan wherein the modern day equivalent to Goldfinger has a ray which can literally turn world leaders into cheese. Rather a small story about how we can deal with stress with cheese. Good[…]

Just because we forgot to blog it last week. Three days after discovering the pie heaven that was the Pillars Of Hercules, we returned to find: all the pies were gone. We wondered if Wiley had popped into the PoH so altered was the pie situation. So […]

The continued operation of Jennings’ brewery in Cockermouth would be key, they say [blogged because i am a big fan of some of those wonderful Jennings ales, such as the Cumberland].
what does it mean, oh anyone who knows the games the big boys […]