Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Will Nancy Pelosi Let Me Sue Them For Not Letting Me Have That Job?
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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Physics For Beach Bums
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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Learn to Cook! (And You’ll Be Ready For Anything!)
Telegraph - Flexible working could backfire on women. By Alice Thomson
So the next generation of women have quietly decided they don’t want to be Shirley Conran or Nicola Horlick. … Almost a quarter of nursery places are now vacant. The statistics are startling. In the last five years the number of women in [...]
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A Study In Dude
As a native Californian, my Dude vocabulary is lengthy and fluent. So I approve of this ad:
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Piling On Marketers
I’m having all my prejudices about marketing people reinforced this week. It’s lovely when my prejudices are reinforced. So I especially enjoyed this snippet:
The Times - Tesco in the US ? It’ll never work, by Chris Ayres
Now, to me, the idea of the British selling ready-meals to Californians makes as much sense as [...]
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Peter Recommends LXXIX
Peter Recommends LXXVII
The coolest jack-o-lantern ever made. Ever.
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Homeopath Blegh
So I’ve been sick to my stomach for a week now and I can’t take it anymore. Every time I start to feel better and eat something I feel like crap again. So, I’ve got a pretty widespread, geographically speaking, audience. So I thought, who better to ask for those international home remedies?
(Perhaps by morning [...]
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Bread, Cheese, and Derangement
The Sunday Times - That’s no food allergy, just bad manners, by India Knight
But I do loathe the way in which people – usually women on a diet – turn something commonplace and understandable, such as not eating bread because it makes them fat, into a look-at-me-I’m-special, cod medical issue. If such people [...]
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Sniffle XLI
How could you not vote for this man?! Look at those strawberries!
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Back From Deutschland
It interests me, the interpretation of one’s first post back from vacation, and what that might say about his preoccupations while abroad. I’ve filed this entry under “Food”.
The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Advocates of Violence
It is becoming more common to hear a man claim that in no circumstance would he be an [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXLV
Because I Haven’t Marmite-Blogged in a While
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The World’s Smallest Caprese Salad
Chicken
Jan Moir in the Telegraph
In the same way that the foxhunting ban was really about class, the foie gras wars are really about what is seen as privilege. Yet the birds used to create this delicacy are treated like kings. They enjoy a well fed, free-range existence and have happy lives. In their [...]
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