• Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

  2025/08/16

• My delightful discovery of the day is that not only does the word ‘pudding’ derive (roughly) from French blood sausage, but also there is a Korean blood sausage called ‘sundae’

  2025/04/20

• Here is a picture of me using giant, mega marshmallows for their zero-rated VAT approved purpose as an ingredient, in this case for rice crispy cakes

  2024/12/03

• I’ve been to Marugame Udon in Reading twice in the past month, both times with the toddler, and it’s been fantastic; then I wondered…

  2024/04/15

• Being taught how to make curry by Indian in-laws, there is a whole new system of weights and measures to learn…

  2024/02/01

• Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet | grapefruit history and drug interactions | Gastro Obscura

  2024/01/25

• (2019) From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom | The Salt | NPR

  2024/01/25

• “‘Outrageous’ tea recipe involving pinch of salt draws US embassy comment”

  2024/01/24

• Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food | …I was vaguely aware of Nicholas Saunders but had no idea of the extent of his impact on British food – and where we are now

  2024/01/23

• BREAKING: food bloggers are adding nightshade and other poisons to online recipe pages to defeat “cooked.wiki” and other advert/revenue-stripping robots

  2024/01/21

• “Daddy Makes Pizza Night” is getting better

  2024/01/18

• Things that I am eating because my toddler did not eat them 2: Lentil & Chorizo stew with Penne, extra Broccoli and Fish Finger bits

  2024/01/11