Sunday, 3 August 2025

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the Reverend Thomas Bayes

›
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the Reverend Thomas Bayes, He is stamping out the frequentists and their incoherent ways, He has raised h...
Saturday, 2 August 2025

The Huxleys are remembered as a scientific dynasty, but they are at least as significant as a literary family.

›
The Huxleys are remembered as a scientific dynasty, but they are at least as significant as a literary family. They wrote in multiple genres...
Friday, 1 August 2025

Mary still suggested popery for most English people

›
Mary still suggested popery for most English people. Indeed, one explanation for the failure to develop a stronger Marian devotional traditi...
Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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

›
'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

›
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.

›
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

›
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...