Have I posted about Steve Don’t Eat It! yet? (searching) No! I have not! There’s a long tradition of eating really horrible things and then writing about it on the Internet. I would search for the good examples from the past but I am lazy. However, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it done quite [...]
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Slashfood, one of my new favourite blogs, has a fun article up about the business of mushroom marketing and how mushrooms have been renamed to make them sound exotic. Exotic means they can, of course, charge more for them. It goes like this. You have agaricus bisporus, the common button mushroom. In these parts they [...]
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Summer is pesto season. Every year I grow a whole lot of big-leaf basil just for making loads and loads of pesto. Some for eating, some for freezing, just so we can have pesto year round. Last week I harvested a big load of basil and was cleaning it in the sink when suddenly one [...]
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I really love stinky cheese (much to Eric’s horror). And now, thanks to the good folks at the BBC, I have a shopping list. At Cranfield University, UK they have discovered the world’s smelliest cheese. It is Vieux Boulogne, a soft washed-rind cheese from Northern France. It comes as no surprise to me that the [...]
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