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1 February 2016
Operant condition your children and get behind the rise in sourdough.
1 February 2016
Rachel Roddy, after about 10 years of hard slog, is an overnight sensation. She’s just scooped the André Simon award for best food book in 2015, a very big deal indeed for a first book. I’d been warming up this second helping for a day or two before that news came through last Friday. My […]
25 January 2016
Is there such a thing as “Indian” food, variations on fried rice and hulled wheats.
25 January 2016
As promised, another second helping from one of 2015’s episodes, before we get to the new stuff. This time, I’m remembering my trip to the little place in St Martin’s Lane in London that serves a couture version of koshari, the iconic street food of Egypt. And one trouble with these second helpings is that […]
18 January 2016
Something for everybody: Curries and Indian food, MSG and vitamin D, art.
18 January 2016
A searchable database about the objects in paintings and prints, which offers a new date for a Van Gogh painting of potatoes.
5 January 2016
Some say the mayo wars are over. I wonder …
5 January 2016
As ever, I’m taking a little break and bringing you some repeats from 2015. This one is prompted by an episode of NPR’s Planet Money that I’ve just listened to. They decided to cook a peacock for reasons that I think had something to do with the role of spices in global trade and the […]
28 December 2015
More contentious mayonnaise — this time in vitello tonnato. Also fungi and solar greenhouses.
21 December 2015
Irish music and its influence on the taste of Irish beer