Tag Archive for 'food'

Oooh-mommy

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, […]

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Changing Spoons

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. […]

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Cheeky Indo? Nah.

According to the Kebab link below there is no such thing as a Chicken Doner. It is in fact a Chicken Shawarma.
A quick poll of the local deviants came up with these alternatives:
A friend at school who used to give his chickens away to local charities.
Chicken Doner
That famous footballing chicken
Chickedona
That Crime fighting duo
Chick ‘n’ […]

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His name was Robert Paulsen

Eating breakfast prevents you from getting obese, new medical reserach shows.
What they failed to include is the pletora of “may, possibly, suggests, is linked with, non-causal relationship, sample size of 10 etc etc ” which makes this and all other ‘medical’ facts the media broadcasts fairly irrelevant.
Next we may even see the BBC reporting
‘Coffee linked […]

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