Tag Archives: food and drink
Galleria Divinorum
1997 – Inspired by conscious dreaming, a series of paintings made over a 3 year period while working as a screenprinter. Mainly airbrushed acrylics on board. I buy a computer and stop painting, spending the next 6 years in videogames … more…
Haute Lapsang: Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme (Wuyi Bohea)
BBC Radio 4′s The Food Programme today about the vertiginous world of Chinese tea, in which my own childish fondness for Lapsang Souchong is held up as though it were ketchup, as a cartooonish mockery of the Real Stuff – … more…
The Yule Cat — Stakhanovite Prophylactic Knitting Song
Last night I attended a most enjoyable Folk Yule organised by Scott and Claire from SELFS at Tanners Hill, Deptford — in the course of which the assembled company were introduced to the Icelandic Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat legend — … more…
The Oil We Eat
Lengthy but worthwhile history of global food production, and how it explains almost everything else in the human world. Scientists have a name for the total amount of plant mass created by Earth in a given year, the total budget … more…
early xmas present
The Balvenie 12-year-old Double Wood in the house. Rich, dark and chocolatey. Not for the first time, I wish I could scan and upload an aroma. The site is rather nice, if a little fussy, although I’ve noticed that although … more…
Papa’s Got a Brand New Kettle
The last time I bought a kettle was in 1983, and it saw active service for almost twenty years. I think that’s pretty good going for electrical goods. I haven’t actually got my hands on this baby yet. Sarah’s picked … more…
Old yeast
Baked a loaf last night, using yeast whose sell-by date expired five years ago. The result was completely fine. I wouldn’t recommend this approach with regard to, say, meat pies, but. But.
Shaggy Ink Cap Story
I don’t think I’ve found any edible wild mushrooms in London until today, but look – Shaggy Ink Cap, or Lawyer’s Wig, Coprinus comatus (click for actual size) in perfect condition. I wish I could scan the smell of them … more…
Brain and Heart gelatin moulds
Brain and Heart gelatin moulds I have a nagging suspicion that I once coveted a brain jelly mould, but I wouldn’t be prepared to give these people money: Illustrate “Be careful little eyes what you see” with the brain. Everything … more…
Barberries Are Not The Only Fruit
Sarah brought home a bag of tiny red fruits, labelled entirely with Arabic script. I’d seen these things in North African and Mid-Eastern cooking, but I never knew what they were called, and it took a little while before S. … more…