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Sep 7
Choices - leftover soup
"Such a dish is always, in my experience, made more scrumptious by the knowledge of its unpromising beginnings." Hugh...
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Jul 19
So many talents - it's not fair
"You sort of get closer to perfection with each failed attempt" Nik Sharma Nik Sharma is the man in the photo and author of three...
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Feb 8
The common kettle - not so common
"We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle...
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Jan 22
Pi or pie? - maths in the food curriculum
"If maths were food, what food would it be? MajorLeagueTeacher I'm not being that clever with my title here - many, many people have...
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Jan 19
Versatile potato peels
“It combines three things consumers love: a little bit of fried starch with ooey gooey cheddar cheese and bacon.” Chicago Tribune I...
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Nov 27, 2023
Pictures, words, irritations and detours
“A picture is a poem without words.” Horace Today's post was going to be a riff on this painting, which turned up on my desk calendar...
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Nov 19, 2023
Search but you may not find
"Google is search. It’s the verb, to Google. It’s what we all do, all the time, whenever we want to know anything. We Google it." Carole...
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Feb 10, 2023
Eat food - rule no.1
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan The above quote is probably the most famous modern quote on food around. It...
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Feb 1, 2023
Mashed potato
"The topic of mashed potato started a heated debate among my colleagues. Half of them insisted it had to be creamy, buttery and have...
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Dec 2, 2022
Hot off a rock - a Neanderthal falafel
"more and more studies are suggesting an ancient penchant for bitter - and astringent-tasting plant foods from as early as the Middle...
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Oct 26, 2022
Cooking - the only thing unique to us
"Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook."...
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Jun 16, 2022
Bees like purple and it will save them
"If technology can play a role in protecting this amazing species then we need to embrace it before it's too late." Ian Cane - Beekeeper...
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Apr 8, 2022
Cooking made us brainy
"fire is needed to fuel the organ that makes possible all the other products of culture, language included: the human brain." Jerry...
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Mar 3, 2022
Humpty Doo barramundi
Well actually, as always, this is going to be about more than Humpty Doo. But I will start there. The actual starting point for this was...
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Aug 31, 2021
The importance of poo
"1% of wastewater is waste. The rest is wasted water." I can't remember why now that poo got on to my list of potential blog topics, but...
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Jul 19, 2021
Zoom lessons
"a chatroom that has gone from almost no one having ever heard of it to being a central instrument in our jobs." Bored Panda More than...
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Jul 6, 2021
Seaweed - a super plant, not necessarily a super food
What’s slimy, a bit smelly, and all the rage in fashionable kitchens? Seaweed." Alice-Azania Jarvis - The Guardian Seaweed has been on...
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May 20, 2021
Those pesky labels on fruit
I've been meaning to write about these for a while now. They're annoying aren't they? The ones shown here are a selection currently in...
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Jan 4, 2021
Artificial 'real' meat and fish
"It isn't just aspiring to be like meat. It is meat. And it is not just the mass market stuff, the patties and nuggets - it's fillets...
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Dec 10, 2020
Frozen fruit to soft serve ice cream?
"Turn frozen fruit into creamy and delicious healthy desserts." Aldi catalogue As we all know Christmas is coming. My daughter-in-law...
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