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#Meateasy

Guy Dimond, Time Out
Finally a reason to take the East London Line… south
Just before Christmas, Yianni Papoutsis had his van nicked. This very distinctive vehicle was the Meatwagon, the most acclaimed burger van in the land. It won a British Street Food Award in 2010, and was the talk of anyone who could keep up with its peripatetic appearances across south-east London over the last year or so, heralded via Twitter (hence the ‘#’ in the new name).
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My Favourite Food: Gizzi Erskine

My Daily
Eat your way to Gizzy’s dress size with this easy mid-week dinner
This is an interpretation of one of my best friend Abbey’s dishes, and I love it! It holds fond memories of me, Abbey and Julie munching away at it over a glass of wine while having a good old girly catch-up. It is a really tasty dish that you can throw together very quickly: the heady wasabi and creamy mayonnaise make a terrific dressing for the aromatic and bitey soba noodles and the crunchy veggies add texture. Abbey and I had a catering company for a few years and we used to serve this dish on Chinese soup spoons as canapes.
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Miracle Berry Party

Whiskblog.com
Finally a cure for antioxidants…
Imagine this. You are living in West Africa thousands of years ago, and you are exploring the bush, when you come upon a shrub with brilliant red berries on it. You pick a few, and eat them, chewing them thoroughly before swallowing. Still hungry, you take a bite of the food you have brought with you for a snack. But you discover that the taste of the food has been transformed. What had been bland is now flavourful; what had been sour is now sweet! You have discovered Synsepalum Dulcificum, known today as the Miracle Berry.
Wow, a hallucinogenic berry that didn’t take off. I must be seeing things
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An affair to remember: dates with a difference

Telegraph
Pets, whiskey or performance art: just don’t take her to Ask
The Wapping project Supper at a restaurant. An art exhibition. A night at the theatre. All classic date territory but not exactly original. Unless you try the Wapping Project. Once the Wapping Hydraulic power station, it?s now part-restaurant, part-performance space, and, well, just about the coolest place in London. Indeed it is so trendy that guests sit between brooding photographs and pieces of industrial machinery. The building boasts an in-house butcher; the furniture is, to be frank, ugly and the website is so ephemeral that it is almost impossible to navigate. But, East London edginess aside, the restaurant is excellent, and the layout is in a constant state of flux, meaning your meal may overlap with anything from a post-Postmodern art installation to a classic film night. To book a table visit www.thewappingproject.com
Then ask her to marry you
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Tried and tested: low-power cookers

Telegraph
Can’t pay your bills?
Every appliance in my house is overpowered. The combined noise of the vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, washing machine and tumble drier can create a din on a level with Heathrow Airport – when it is not snowing, of course. Every gadget I switch on has a super-fast or extra-hot option. When we have guests to dinner, I have to choose between dirtying up the kitchen with cooking fumes or allowing the cooker-hood fan to drown out the conversation.
Well it’s better than being lectured at by Martin Lewis
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How to cook perfect fish pie

The Guardian
Who says beige is boring? A dish in which mashed potato counts as a splash of colour is not likely to win any prizes for style, but by God fish pie knows how to play to its strengths. It’s the warm, fuzzy equivalent of settling down for the Sunday afternoon film with a mug of tea ? and the perfect vehicle for all the sustainable seafood championed by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest campaign. Who could fail to feel a flutter for flounder, or be passionate about pollack when it comes wrapped in a creamy, savoury sauce underneath a crowd-pleasing crust of fluffy mash?
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Review of Zucca

the grumbling gourmet
Zucca opened earlier in the year to rave reviews from bloggers and critics alike. Many had no idea how they could create their homely yet modern Italian cuisine at the prices they were charging, many of the same people also raved about the quality of the simple ingredients and this man, reading the bundles of food porn produced, licked his lips and vowed to get there, and soon. Well time moved on, and other places opened, and this man didn’t get down there (though close) so it was with pleasure while sculling round for somewhere to take Northern Mother, that this man was reminded of the little (still fairly new) cozy, modern and cheap Italian on Bermondsey Street.
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