The Tunnocks tea-room bakery display features cyclists, and best of all, tea-cake owls! Via Anne at I Like!
Nice to see them still pushing the Dark Chocolate flavours, although I think I’m still yet to see a dark chocolate teacake in this &#82[…]

This afternoon the mindreading goblins who decide which ad goes at the top of yer Gmail ceased their Cougar obsession for long enough to point me to a site called “Openanduseb4”. This turned out to be a place which sells pre-printed label[…]

a scientific report
the project: to road-test some of the fillings people have (incomprehensibly) not yet adopted
the fillings of the future:
i: mushrooms fried in pumpkin seed butter, with garlic oil and red wine
ii: fried bacon and date syrop
iii: […]

YOU WILL NEED
3-4 fennel bulbs
2oz butter ( = quarter of a butter)
1 x cup double cream (use the whole cup-sized carton)
6 oz parmesan (this is abt 3/4 of the slice you generally get)
Pork loin chops
THEN DO THIS
a: grate the parmesan
b: meanwhile he[…]

Because we’ve been talking about this all over Poptimists and at Poptimism, and it needs its own Freaky Trigger mention for sheer grime/chicken amazingness….
AH! The embedding isn’t working so youtube link to Junior Spesh instead!

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Here’s a couple of food science-y items recently brought to my attention.
Firstly – the hygiene issues surrounding ‘communal dipping’. I’m sure everyone is pretty familiar with this practice, unless you live in a cave or[…]

Hold on, say you, in what way is the horribly named Zits On Toast ever going to fit into a poncy edition of occasional FT food column “Cheap Food We Love”. Well Zits On Toast is what an acquaintance of mine once named what could otherwise[…]

As loathe as I am to suggest I and my fellow food scientist at Freaky Trigger has started a trend, yet another Marmite Special Edition has reminded me of an experiment we did a few years ago. So yes yes, to Valentine’s Day themed Champagne Marm[…]

Halva is an acquired taste – I’ve never successfully convinced anyone who’s not had it before that it is nice, despite my efforts. I think it’s the uneasy marriage of bitter and slightly sickly. Last night I was wandering abou[…]

There is something fascinating about the differences in the generic. If the point of global fast food brands is a comforting familiarity, it is the surprising differences which can sometimes make them even more interesting*. The nature of franchising[…]