Category Archives: food and drink
Don’t try this at home
I’ve had this page open in a browser tab for about a week. Can’t seem to let it go, so here it is. I’ve understood for years that people should not under any circumstances go anywhere near polar bears, and … more…
links for 2009-11-24: King Midas Sound mix, pie crust recipe
Pie crust Whitehouse-approved sweet pastry recipe (tags: recipes food pie-crust Bill-Yosses) FACT mix 103: King Midas Sound trio of Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Roger Robinson and Hitomi. Available for three weeks only, so they say. Thanks to John Eden for … more…
links for 2009-11-14: cannibals
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | 'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop "After carrying out the attack, the corpse was dismembered. Part of it was eaten and part was also sold to a kebab and pie kiosk," (tags: Russia … more…
Epicurean Drug Fiend
Look what I picked up in one of the local charity shops this week: a rather lovely 1970s edition (Samuel Weiser, New York, 1970) of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend. The cover shows a man who clearly knows … more…
LSD History Comic
A telling of the history of lysergic acid diethylamine-25, better known as LSD or simply acid, in the form of a Jack Chick style comic tract, nicely done. Eventually, the generations of people who subliminally wonder for a moment whether … more…
Prepare to meet your Meat Maker (and make your meat)
Code-generated Silverware, Cranbrook student work by Richard Nelipovich ConsuME Meat Maker, Cranbrook student work by Thanapong Vudhichamnong. Mac Tonnies at Posthuman Blues flagged up this rather fetching cutlery set, which as Mac notes, is very reminiscent of artefacts from … more…
links for 2008-02-02: open source pita bread
Pita Bread recipe (tags: baking bread recipe pita)
Home cooking…
…is killing the restaurant industry. Nice little graphic I ran across on one of those nasty evil, killing-the-entertainment-industry sites just now. Thought I’d share…
“Mushroom Faking” by Dexter Petley
From Caught By The River, which is new to me: Seasons have become increasingly meaningless. Weather patterns within very localised habitats are the key to mushroom knowledge, and the resulting forest-craft is no different to water-craft. I learned this one … more…
links for 2007-10-01: sticky buns, unknown pleasures
Sticky is good « Pip in the city Sticky bun, cinnamon bun recipe. The picture had me sold. (tags: recipes, food, sweets, cinnamon, sticky buns, baking) Unknown Pleasures – Out of the Blue Jon Wozencroft writes about the cover design … more…