Fidel Gastro’s

That’s what she said.
The cheap sexual innuendo. The thing of beauty, grace, depth and length. Something that you can just slip in without fear of it blowing up in your face and once you start you can’t help but raise an eyebrow and smirk at everything mildly in-your-endo-y said at work.
‘I came across this document […]

Woh - a hiatus of a ‘Dave Chappelle walking away from a $50m dollar third season contract, going mental and discovering himself in Africa’-type proportion. Well at least without the $50m dollar contract and having gone to Africa. Instead I’ve fallen into the evil clutches of Facebook-addiction, trying to avoid micro-updating my status with things […]

A Bi-curious bi-cyclist by way of Bicester. A little rhyme to warm your Friday. But what of all this blatant cyclism? I once had a bike. It was stolen. Painful experience yet it’s most likely your recently thieved prize warhorse will end up on sale in East London within the hour. If you buy a […]

Did anyone eat one of these? The McRib? The thing didn’t have a bone it in. And was reaaally minging. (Oops - two links already, I don’t normally do that but oh well just remember to come back once you’ve had a cheeky click.)
I quite like sampling the local MackyD’s specialty sandwich when on holiday, […]

We have four traditional senses of taste. Sweet, sour, bitter and Reiss. We also have a fifth, umami, which is the taste of ’savoury meaty deliciousness’; about as close a translation to the Japanese word that us poor fat-tongued Western devils can manage.
The Japanese discovered umami in the 60’s using a battery of pHD students, […]

I went to the Savoy Grill on Thursday and ate at the Chef’s table. This is a small private room in the kitchen area with one wall being a glassed view into the main kitchen.

Served 9 courses with a different wine matched; each chef came into the room and introduced each course (“Beans on toast. […]