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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Question: Scots ask US to lift haggis ban

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Telegraph - Immortal rind

Manufacturers faced with declining sales must look for new markets to exploit, and Britain’s marmalade-makers are no exception. But in all such cases, care must be taken not to alienate existing customers in the pursuit of new ones, and we fear that many of our readers, as they munch their [...]

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The TImes - Save the world and keep eating those spuds, by Damian Whitworth

Shortly after the world learnt that Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated I heard a news bulletin in which it was reported that the UN Security Council had gone into emergency session to discuss the developments. I found myself snorting derisively: [...]

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They should have published this yesterday. Ah well, it makes sense in the official (American) launch of the holiday season:

The Times - Bits of dancing rubber. Delicious! The Japanese really know how to eat, unlike our feeble and often solitary attempts, by Ben Macintyre

The Japanese know how to eat, and how to relate to [...]

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So, I have planned my menu, and it is:

• Tarragon chicken • Chestnut, prune, and pancetta stuffing • Sticky rice with Chinese sausage • Mashed celery root potatoes • Cranberry, shallot and dried-cherry compote • Squash pull-apart dinner rolls • Pumpkin pie • Cranberry pumpkin upside-down cake

And if Peter’s friend comes over again and he brings a veg or two, and some booze, that ought to be enough for three [...]

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The Times - Sushi and Stars

The news that Michelin has seen fit to award Tokyo a galaxy of stars was greeted with cries of “banzai!” by one of the eight new three-star chefs, and general Japanese jubilation. But although the Japanese were gracious enough to be pleased by the praise, it cannot have [...]

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TMZ - Cold Beer is Here

A New Zealand college student has created what can only be described as the most important beverage-related invention ever. Tired of lugging an ice chest to the beach with his mates, 22-year old student Kent Hodgson, created a portable device that cools beer in a [...]

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