When you find a cheap, delicious street food stand, never let it go. Even if it is in Staines.
Decent street food is hard to find in Blighty, so when I came across K & K Fresh Foods, I was always going to check it out. It was love at first smell, as the smoky aroma from the grill lured me over to join a lengthy but fast moving queue.
We must step up the fight against food terrorism. Or at least, if this uneventful list is anything to go by. Rule #1: All food must be cooked in a clear plastic bag and sucked from a 100ml tube.
Earlier this week, the internet seemed to explode with news of an act of “food terrorism” that occurred in Pennsylvania. Pizza shop owner Nikolas Galiatsatos allegedly attempted to sabotage two rival pizza shops by inserting bags of mice into the ceiling tiles of their bathrooms. In one restaurant, the owners became suspicious and alerted the police, who tracked Galiatsatos down. His business had been suffering and his home life was crumbling at the time of the attack. Though the term has been thrown around rather loosely, tampering with food has caused real harm in history. Here are some examples of real “food terrorism”:
Cooking iPad style is becoming wildly popular, possibly because the danger is addictive. Try propping your £400 treasure up near a full washing up bowl, while hacking at broccoli, swigging wine and attempting to follow a recipe, and you’ll see what I mean.
The iPad 2 is nearing its launch and an estimated 27 million iPads will be sold in 2011. With more than 60,000 available apps (six times the amount last summer), you may wonder which food apps to download. So, we’ve narrowed down ten of the best. How? Apple representative Ted Miller said the company doesn't do interviews about specific apps or app categories, but noted "food and drink apps held many of the top spots” in the Lifestyle category for overall iPad app downloads in 2010.
If you’ve not been following the gentle dismantling of 50 years worth of leap-of-faith healthy eating advice regarding fat, catch up now.
The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist—but shockingly, the opposite just might be true. For over 50 years the medical establishment, public health officials, nutritionists, and dieticians have been telling the American people to eat a low-fat diet, and in particular, to avoid saturated fats. Only recently, have nutrition experts begun to encourage people to eat “healthy fats.”
Don Draper was never hungry for food as he told his wife Betty in one of the earliest episodes. *Blush*. Guessing this cook book will contain plenty of Baked Alaska, Steak Diane and instructions which only make sense after eight tumblers of Canadian Rye Whiskey.
Set aside the $1.99 you were going to spend on that Mad Men cocktail app and save it for the cookbook. News of the deal comes from the subscribers’ section of Publishers Marketplace: “Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin's The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook, a guide to the food and drink mentioned in the show from Sterling Cooper power lunches to Betty's Around the World Dinner; also offering suggestions for Mad Men-themed parties and entertaining with style, with every detail true to the period and themes of the show, [has been sold] to Leah Wilson at BenBella Books, for publication in Winter 2112.”
Interestingly, only female celebrities agreed to scribble on this ferocious-looking creation to raise awareness about the economic plight of pig farmers. Perhaps the C-list men they approached didn't feel quite comfortable with the job in hand.
But is that sausage good to eat?
Celebrities including TV personality Christine Hamilton, pop singer Liz McClarnon and sports presenter Sharron Davies signed a giant sausage outside Downing Street as part of a campaign to help pig farmers secure a fair deal from supermarkets and processors.
When it comes to perfecting the burger, most men go for the buying meat and wielding a huge pair of tongs over hot coals – while their face melts – approach. But not the Chubby Man from Singapore.
It’s no secret that I love burgers. Love going out for them and also love making them. And I think I do a pretty good job. Haven’t had too many complaints at least. That said, I’ve always been slightly bothered by one thing. I prefer my burgers with a slightly thicker patty. It’s just more pleasurable to chomp down on a nice fat burger. While I have had good burgers made with thin, flat patties–which necessitates at least two patties per burger–they just don’t have the same level of juiciness and taste compared to a well-made thick patty.
This pig slaughtering Bacchus sounds fabulous fun for all the family. The cheese rollers of Stilton and gravy wrestlers of Lancashire surely need to take notes. Perhaps some new events like… Cheese Or Death?
If you notice a smell of blood in the air, don’t be alarmed. Unless, of course, you’re a pig. It’s Masopust, the local traditional incarnation of Carnivale dating back centuries, and cities, towns and villages across the country are putting together one hell of a party before “saying goodbye to meat” and hello to penitence come Ash Wednesday.
I think we should keep it in an electrified cage – guarded by drunk leopards – so only the truly worthy will receive their reward.
Alcohol should be kept away from food and soft drinks in supermarkets, according to a campaign group. Alcohol Concern wants shops in England and Wales to keep beer and wine in a separate section. It has found that big retailers place beer and wine near the doors and the tills, as well as on food aisles.
Sometimes you just feel like giving up. Are you actually supposed to interrogate the waiter and then sneak into the kitchen to find the wrapper your food might have come in, just to make sure your restaurant doesn’t lie to you?
Council food enforcement officers investigated around 300 restaurants, retail outlets and food manufacturing premises, and found that one in five restaurant descriptions were misleading people. For example, New Zealand lamb was passed off as Welsh, Scottish butter and French brie were sold as Somerset products, ‘local’ ice-cream was found to be Carte D’Or brand, and local Devon ham was actually Danish.
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