Wednesday, 18 June 2025

'Homemade' begs one question. Whose home? Have you actually seen people's homes?

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'Homemade' begs one question. Whose home? Have you actually seen people's homes? Why should biscuits made at home be better than...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Unpeeled potatoes are an abomination

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SAUTE POTATOES Do peel the potatoes - unpeeled potatoes are an abomination Do not blanch them let alone boil them Cut them into pieces the s...
Monday, 16 June 2025

He promised to remove these carrots in a re-issue of the book, but they are still wrongly and redly there.

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It [Lancashire Hotpot] needs very slow cooking in an oven. Into a family-sized, brown, oval-shaped dish with a lid, you place the following ...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

Avoid. Stick to acid and opium

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The best known recipe in the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook is for hashish fudge. She got the recipe from Brion Gibson who had got it in Tangier w...
Saturday, 14 June 2025

They agree to license the song, then donated all the money - very publicly - to its striking workforce

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IN the years since, there have been endless request to license the song [ Tubthumping]. Almost always, the band say no. On specific occasion...
Friday, 13 June 2025

Doing funerals is better than doing an acoustic gig any day

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In Liverpool, Brian Nash [from Frankie Goes to Hollywood] - Nasher - is a very good funeral celebrant. 'I tell you, doing funerals is be...
Thursday, 12 June 2025

I know some artists struggle with the idea of being relevant, [but] I stopped buying that a long time ago

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In 1993, Billy Joel released his last album, River of Dreams , and aside from one further album of classical piano pieces, has felt no compu...