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This is funny (from USA Today): ‘Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’ stumble over an alleged pot-smoking incident has been an apparent bonanza for the San Francisco Food Bank, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The multi-gold-medal winner got into hot water after a photograph surfaced showing him communing with a bong at a South Carolina fraternity party. [...]

I do sympathise with Mr. Fat Duck, who is hemorrhaging a bucket of money every day that his restaurant is closed, following the “mystery” illness that has apparently befallen up to 400 of his diners. It’s a sad fact that there seems to be some opportunism involved in claiming illness (and perhaps being rewarded with [...]

Today the Telegraph posted an article called “10-minute body sculpting”, which sounds like a quick workout, but in fact details how to ‘fight the urge to eat’. Surprise, surprise. Is it any wonder that people are so bloody confused about what to put in their mouths? According other sources, the UK has seen something like [...]

In anticipation of an event I have undertaken to cater tomorrow afternoon, I got to spend the afternoon baking. The event is the first session of a first-time endeavour, and the idea is to get people to come back. Cakes are not the main highlight, but I reckoned that if people got bored of hearing [...]

I grew up, as most people in this part of the world, with my fair share of toasted sandwiches. I think we had a snackwich at some point, but the version I mostly had was my mother’s: brown government loaf, first toasted, and then dressed with thickly sliced tomato and onion, followed by a healthy [...]