Reading books affects our behaviour; gobbling up the written word is not always a passive experience. A couple of months after finishing one of Michael Dibdin’s Italian detective novels I found myself cooking spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino, once a week on average. Combining pasta with olive oil, chilli and garlic is something which once [...]
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It’s good to TalkTalk
Posted in Books, Not about food, Uncategorized, tagged paul auster, talktalk, talktalk customer services, talktalk twitter, Twitter on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Inscrutable
Posted in Going out to eat, Uncategorized, tagged financial times, four seasons, gerrard street, london chinese restaurants, roast duck, the secret of life, Twitter on January 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
What it is one does on Twitter to generate thousands of followers I don’t know. Obviously being famous helps but there are plenty of cases of mere civilians like me who count their disciples in the tens of thousands. Obviously I pretend I don’t really care but I really really really do. I’m not even [...]
I don’t know how I crammed it all in
Posted in Going out to eat, Things I cook, Uncategorized, tagged alabama hot pot, food bloggers, general election 2010, lembit opik, the canton arms, toasted sandwiches, tom blythe, Twitter on May 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Hello. Fortified by a breakfast of bacon, eggs and plenty of bubble and squeak (frankly the only one I’ve ever made that seems quite right) I feel equipped to lift my face, shame scribbled all over it, above my blog’s parapet. I know, I know … the rules state quite clearly that nobody but nobody [...]
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