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Breaking: Chef Doesn’t Care About Saving World

By E on May 18, 2012

If you do a Google Image search for “Chef Saves World” (because why wouldn’t you?), you’ll find pictures of people like Jamie Oliver (often dressed up like a vegetable), René Redzepi, Ferran Adrià, and Mario Batali (huh?). Who you won’t find a picture of is Thomas Keller, because he’s not interested in saving the world. As [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver | Tagged celebrity chefs, Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollan, Thomas Keller | Leave a response

Mind the Gap

By E on May 10, 2012

There are two current “hot topics” which interest me: obesity and the Internet. For the former, I’m not as interested in the actual condition as I am in (and have written about) its media representation: the endless claims about having discovered The Causes of and thereby The Solutions to this “epidemic”. As far as I [...]

Posted in Food Media, Rants | Tagged Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Joshua Greene, neuroplasticity, Nicholas Carr, Obesity, Stephen Pinker | Leave a response

Attention Wikipedia

By E on April 5, 2012

It was an experience of exquisite narcissism to be able to take myself out to lunch the other day with a book. Written by me. Yes, so it finally arrived, which means that it will be coming to a bookshop near you very soon (it is, ahem, of course available through the usual online channels. [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Reading | Tagged celebrity chefs, food media, Jamie Oliver, Politics of Everyday Interference | 2 Responses

Patienssssssssss

By E on February 21, 2012

So for the first class of 2012, the “ice breaker” on the teaching module (not designed by myself) consisted of students introducing themselves, followed by a sentence about their “roots” (where they’re from), their “routes” (where they want to go: surprisingly, no one said “anywhere but here”), and one adjective to describe themselves. I’m glad [...]

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Deen there, done that

By E on January 21, 2012

I’ve been experiencing various levels of annoyance at various times over the last few days. Much of this is heat(-wave) related, but mostly it’s from witnessing the brouhaha over the Paula Deen “scandal’ in the food media world. Practically every media outfit has their own take on it, but the facts are these: – Deen [...]

Posted in Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chefs, Deengate, diabetes, food media, Frank Bruni, Jose Andres, Novo Nordisk, Obesity, Paula Deen, Victoza | Leave a response

Bitters. Ice cream!

By E on December 26, 2011

My mother’s favourite new drink is tonic water with a dash of (Angostura) bitters. Nothing too revolutionary there – who hasn’t added a dash of bitters to a G (or V) & T, etc. But what is pretty damn cool is a whole underground of bitters that I knew nothing about until a friend who [...]

Posted in Cooking, Posts | Tagged Angostura Bitters, Bitters ice cream, blood orange bitters, celery bitters, Peychaud's Bitters | Leave a response

Bigger on the Inside

By E on December 16, 2011

Our house is really dirty. But that’s because we’ve got handymen fixing a few odds and ends, oh and painting the inside of our front door to look like the Tardis. (It’s apparently never to late to be the geeky kind of fan who would paint the inside of their front door to look like [...]

Posted in Posts | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dr. Who, Tardis, The Doctor | Leave a response

Guinnessy goodness and a cheesy crust

By E on December 9, 2011

Once in a blue cheese moon I actually feel like making pastry. That moon came on Wednesday, when I whipped up Ramsay’s rough puff. But woman cannot live on pastry alone, so I threw some beef and Guinness in a pot and let that simmer for a couple of hours. The next day (assured by Google [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged apple and cheddar pie, blue cheese crust, Guinness ice cream, Guinness pie, rough puff pastry | Leave a response

The cake I did not bake

By E on December 5, 2011

So dem birds came anyway, inspired by this beauty, and executed by the excellent Charly’s Bakery (Mucking Afazing Cakes indeed!): I wish I had done it myself, but letting someone else worry about the birds was in the end a brilliant idea, since all I had to do was sit back and enjoy: I guess Bukowski said it [...]

Posted in Posts | Tagged 40th birthday cake, angry birds, angry birds cake, Charles Bukowski, Charly's Bakery, Mucking Afazing Cakes | Leave a response

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