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Why I’m so angry with a brewery

October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Consumer, Food/Drink, Politics

I could burble about the disastrously regressive nature of the George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review, the misrepresentation of how the economy got in this state and the lies behind the “all in this together” line. But I won’t. Lots of other people have done this better than I could. However, one little detail has caught [...]

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The end of cheap booze?

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Consumer, Food/Drink, Politics

I can’t claim to have any revolutionary suggestions for combatting our supposed descent into alcoholic oblivion, but I’m not sure that minimum unit pricing is the answer. Using price controls to affect people’s behaviour is going to be unpredictable when the perception of the product differs so radically from person to person, social group to [...]

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Volvic with fish? Are you MAD?

July 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Drivel, Food/Drink

Thanks to Marina Hyde in the Guardian, I think I’ve found the most ludicrously pretentious book in the world. Act fast, and grab your copy of the not-to-be-missed bestseller for the summer… Fine Waters: A Connoisseur’s Guide to the World’s Most Distinctive Bottled Waters Consumers are beginning to recognize that bottled water, like wine, has [...]

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GAS

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Consumer, Food/Drink

… being, of course, Gaggia Acquisition Syndrome! And thereby hangs a quick public service announcement. The Croydon branch of House of Fraser are doing a special offer on the appropriately named Gaggia Classic, bundling it with an accessory pack for £199, which is an amazing deal. It’s very rare that you see a Classic in [...]

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Nu-Wispa

November 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Drivel, Food/Drink

Today, I ate a Wispa for the first time in… ooh, years. I had no idea that the original incarnation had been around until 2003, though. I always associate Wispas with the 80s and 90s, and thereby lies a slight Proust effect for me. Eating a Wispa will always remind me of university days; the [...]

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Dinnerlog #8

June 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Food/Drink

Continuing a train of thought from the previous Dinnerlog post, it occurs to me that I don’t really know all that much about cooking off by heart. All those groovy, glossy celebrity cookbooks provide instant gratification without any deeper understanding of why the ingredients fit together… your only investment of time is the trip to [...]

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Dinnerlog #7

June 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food/Drink

Sometimes, things I like coincide with other things I like. A coincidence of pleasantness. I like eating and I like summer weather, so it was nice to end Sunday with the first al fresco dinner of the year, and Tuscan-style broad beans and ham seemed an appropriately sunny choice for the fine weather. Everyone should [...]

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Three days in the life of the Poo Lady

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Consumer, Food/Drink, TV/Radio

Last week ended triumphantly for “Dr” Gillian McKeith “PhD”, but worryingly for those of us with the capacity for rational thought. The latest PLR statistics for public library borrowing in the UK show the Poo Lady’s books in first and third position in the non-fiction chart. But what a difference a weekend makes! Ben Goldacre’s [...]

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Dinnerlog #6

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Food/Drink

Haven’t done this for a while… Sometime last year I was at a family get-together sort of thing in Warwickshire. As it was an area none of us knew (it was chosen as a good geographical centre) I took it upon myself to hunt out a good restaurant for the evening. I found The Crabmill [...]

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Dinnerlog #5

February 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Food/Drink

So anyway… the reason I bought that “French Kitchen” book mentioned in the previous Dinnerlog is down to a long-standing tradition here (“here” in the offline sense, I mean). Way back when we were either impoverished students or impoverished just-graduates, I was wondering what we should do for Nicola’s birthday. Going out to a restaurant [...]

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