Reminding us why Wills married out of the family.
Last week's Royal Wedding was terrific fun, and here in London we've all had a ball. Hats off to the Middleton family who handled the whole thing brilliantly. Just imagine walking down that aisle in front of an estimated 2 billion people? Our Kate looked fantastic, and I have to admit to shedding a manly tear to Parry's beautiful anthem "I Was Glad"- it always gets to me for some reason. A good day for the country, I think.
Experts finally prove holy water has some effect.
Holy drinking water contaminated with arsenic is being sold illegally to Muslims by UK shops, the BBC has found. Zam Zam water is taken from a well in Mecca and is considered sacred to Muslims, but samples from the source suggested it held dangerous chemicals.
If Hotel Chocolat did porn, it might look something like this.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to the re-launch of Magnum Ecuador. The chocolate covered ice cream has been around a while, but the chocolate is now Rainforest Alliance certified, and Magnum have been making a big deal about using real, ethically sourced chocolate. All good stuff.
Sensory specific satiety: yup that sums up the problem with my cooking.
When you think of garnish, you probably picture a sprig of parsley or mint, a sad radish rose, a carrot curl, or doodle of sauce, or some barely edible flower that has decorated plates for a hundred years – and still does in some quarters. If so, I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time on them for your average homecooked meal. The purpose this type of garnish serves is purely visual, and the aesthetics are dubious at best.
A great recipe for ignoring your family and daydreaming about food instead.
While away on vacation in South Florida, I thought about many things. As the incipient pondered dying her hair bright red, my mind seized on all matters mahi mahi, and I wondered why I so rarely see it outside of the Sunshine State. As bacon girl demanded more time with me in the pool, I pondered the question of key lime pie, which transformed in my brain from an overrated show horse dessert to an underrated pleasure, especially when made with the proper crust.
Psychologist explores the impact of sniffing a fairy cake.
However, since attending my friends’ fabulous royal wedding party on Friday night I feel I need to make an important amendment to my earlier statement: I now realize that the most important thing about the whole business was the opportunity to indulge in a glorious nationwide orgy of Party Food Nostalgia. We all have foods that take us back to happy times and places. Personally, if I so much as sniff a party ring, a fairy cake, or a cheesy wotsit, I am immediately at my 7th birthday party, sitting cross-legged on our dining room floor, watching wide-eyed as my dad’s magician friend Graham crafted giraffes and sausage dogs from colored balloons, and made 50 pence pieces vanish in thin air, then mysteriously re-emerge.
Li-lo serves us another portion of crazy pie.
Serving food to homeless women at a Los Angeles shelter is one of many tasks Lindsay Lohan may be required to perform as part of her court-ordered community service, OnTheRedCarpet.com has learned. The 24-year-old actress has until the end of the week to register for her duties at the Downtown Women’s Center in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, where she must complete the bulk of the 480 hours of community service that were handed down as part of a sentence for violating her probation.
If Americans and Brits liked to share small portions of food this pesky trend for little plates wouldn't be a problem. But we don't and so it is.
There's no better word to describe a passing fascination than "fad." It sounds exactly like what it is: short and kind of lame. Like pet rocks, slap bracelets, and troll dolls, fads in restaurants come and go quickly and, more often than not, there's a "What where we thinking?" vibe once they're gone. In the mid-to-late 90s, every restaurant I went to seemed to have wasabi mashed potatoes on the menu–whether or not it fit in with the food they were serving (The Foodist noticed too). "Would the gentleman like a side of wasabi mashed potatoes with his paella?" "No. No I would not. Also, I'm 12. Why are you calling me 'the gentleman?" These days, food trends are fast and furious. Fusion tacos are huge. Mixology had its moment. But small plates are still everywhere, and that's one trend I'd like to stop right in its tiny-portioned tracks.
You can take away their happy meals, but McFat kids will keep coming back bigger than ever.
New York City Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr. of Queens has attacked a piece of Americana by proposing to ban “Happy Meal” toys in fast food restaurants. And while legislators and public health advocates are correct in looking for ways to reverse skyrocketing childhood obesity rates, toys and kids’ foods have been synonymous for almost a century, ever since Cracker Jacks began adding surprises to each package in 1912.
What was the price of a cup of coffee in 1907? NY librarian supersizers transcribing 10,000 menus cos they just can’t bear not knowing
With approximately 40,000 menus dating from the 1840s to the present, The New York Public Library’s restaurant menu collection is one of the largest in the world, used by historians, chefs, novelists and everyday food enthusiasts. Trouble is, the menus are very difficult to search for the greatest treasures they contain: specific information about dishes, prices, the organization of meals, and all the stories these things tell us about the history of food and culture.
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