Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Let the Crime Lords Eat Foie Gras
BBC - Chicago overturns foie gras ban
Didier Durand, one of the Chicago chefs who formed a movement to end the ban, called the decision “fabulous”. “All of us are so excited,” he said told reporters outside his restaurant while holding his duck Nicolai - named after French President Nicolas Sarkozy. […]
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Three Squares and Pickled Onions
The Sunday Times - Feed the customers, or they’ll slash all the seats, by Jeremy Clarkson
Last weekend, as I spiralled round an endless succession of identical ring roads in the Midlands, looking for somewhere to have lunch, I realised with a heavy heart that the global food shortage had reached Britain. Quite simply, […]
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Latest Canadian Human Rights Scandal: Free the Marlboro Man!
Macleans - Why tobacco is evil but booze is just fine - FROM THE EDITORS
Political science isn’t just something you study in university. Politicians have their own way of interpreting scientific evidence that tends to be light on facts and method, and heavy on emotion, opinion and self-interest. The result being, the science […]
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EU Doing Something Useful
When It Rains It Pours Rats
Even Peter says this is a bit too many rats for his taste:
The Times - Plague of rats brings threat of famine to millions in Mizoram
Millions of people in India face starvation after a chilling local prophecy, which predicts that a plague of rats will overrun a region of the country every half […]
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This Is the Most Interesting Thing I’ve Read In Months
If not years:
Wikipedia - Pineapple
The word “pineapple”, first recorded in 1398, was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit, they called them “pineapples” (term first recorded in that sense in 1664) because it resembled what we know as pine […]
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Don’t Look At Me, I Eat Rice
Except for the occasional Vietnamese sandwich at Pike Market of a weekend, I haven’t had bread in ages. And I don’t drive a car. Bio-fueled or otherwise.
Who knows there’s a food crisis? The early signals are there, but the world seems to be sleepwalking towards disaster, by Magnus Linklater
The causes are many and various, […]
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Wednesday’s Wisdom
There’s much in the news about the plight of Britain’s pig farmers.
The Times - Get your diet right Eat for promotion, but do not in your ambition forget also to eat for pleasure
The way to eat well in England used to be to have three breakfasts. But bacon and eggs have become dietetically incorrect, […]
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Natural Chuck
BBC - In pictures: Prince Harry returns home
Prince Charles spoke of his relief that his son had returned home safely but said he now understood more acutely the worries felt by the parents of other British service personnel
He’s got a green onion pinned to his lapel!
(I’m not sure whether to file this under War & […]
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Triple Grande Soy Half-Caf Connection to History
The Times - Cafe Society Coffee houses have become the new place to work, rest and play
It is a fitting revival for a meeting place that has shaped history, commerce, literature and revolution. Lloyd’s began life as a coffee house in London offering insurance for the British empire’s merchant fleet. So did London’s Stock […]
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Shop Competition
Ron Liddle, in The Sunday Times:
With an irony rather more delicious than your average high street rogan josh, the Bangladeshis who run our domestic curry houses are moaning that the new immigrants to Britain – from eastern Europe – are hopeless when faced with the task of preparing a naan bread or boiling […]
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Pancake Day
Times Online - 10 flipping tasty pancake recipes Gordon Ramsay, Jill Dupleix and others get to the heart of the batter with the best fillings, toppings and recipes for Shrove Tuesday
This one is purely for my external memory drive. I don’t even like pancakes. Or rather, I don’t like American pancakes with butter and syrup. I […]
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Food Money
So, Nigella Lawson (the cookbook author and TV chef) went out and said that no way were her kids getting a dime of her money (inheritance tax debate aside, one’s mind does turn to the fact that she’s been using them, filmed in soft focus scampering innocently about in front of a cozy fireplace before […]
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Unusually Like Vole’s Vomit
This is from Friday (yes, I finally have a working server and access to the computer. it just takes massively inconvenient server switches and getting up at 8 on a Sunday to do it):
The Times - This tastes horrid (in my view) We food critics have been crippled by the ruling against a newspaper for criticising […]
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Answer: Yes.
Question: Scots ask US to lift haggis ban
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