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1. There exists a book called the Axis of Evil Cookbook (published 2007) which is evidently unconnected to an nthposition copyleft book of the same name, published in June 2004 (copyleft means you can get it for free, here). The irony behind both remains ambiguous. 2. There also exists a prestigious award called the Golden [...]

Apropos a recent post on the possibility of the bananas dying out comes this illustration of what a banana-less world may look like (courtesy of tamlanca, who will otherwise remain unnamed): And apropos that ridiculous claims of the god-fearing ilk that bananas testify in some way to the big bearded one’s glory, a(n inevitable) spate [...]

Just to one-up Mr. 302 who proposes to read 20 books this year, I may not have done all the things that I intended to do with “holiday” time, but I have been reading, and that’s a blessed change from last year. Interestingly, lies and deceit come up all the time, but maybe that’s because [...]

I’ve often been charged by culinary purists (in various guises) with breaking unspoken rules. When I eat a Danish lunch with my dear old aunties, for instance, one of them gets rather upset if I put the shrimp on rye bread instead of white, or eat the herring after rather than before the fried, crumbed [...]

One of the most unromantic lines in a love song must be from Prince’s “Somewhere Here on Earth”: ‘In this digital age, you could just page me’ But Prince is a sign of the times, and there is probably a gritty truth in there somewhere (notwithstanding that paging is pretty passé by now: ‘in this [...]