Gordon Ramsay’s Humble Pie was a 2006 bestseller but it was the award-winning feature writer Rachel Cooke who quietly wore out the “f” key on her laptop. Then again, she can afford a new computer, having pocketed a rumoured £100,000 share of Ramsay’s rumoured £750,000 advance. From “Literary Haunts”, The Times, November 12, 2007. Surely… Continue reading Does Gordon Ramsay write his own extrafood column in the Herald Sun?
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Beer Flaw Tasting
“T” is for Taint If there is one thing that evaluating beer in Cambodia has primed my tastebuds for, it is tasting bad beer. I never particularly dwelt upon the reasons behind their badness because I was too busy trying to find synonyms for “watery”. I had never approached badness in a systematic way. So… Continue reading Beer Flaw Tasting
“Fetal bovine serum, you say”
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with bio-artist Oron Catts which probably rates as one of the strangest I’ve ever had. I used the words “fetal bovine serum” far too often for somebody who writes about food. He spoke of his work as “semi-living” where I might have used the term “undead”. His… Continue reading “Fetal bovine serum, you say”
Measuring web statistics for your food blog
Unless you’re going to act upon it, measuring anything is nothing more than statistical masturbation, whether it be on the web or anywhere else. There is the warm afterglow that you get from the first time that you hit a hundred; a thousand or a hundred thousand visitors to your blog a day, but once… Continue reading Measuring web statistics for your food blog
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One-plus-One Dumplings: Uyghur-licious
Chinese food in Australia is for the most part, awful, but it is an awfulness within which you can revel. Steak and black bean sauce, paint-liftingly acidic lemon chicken, your-meat-of-choice stir-fried with cashew nut and cornstarch. Fried rice with peas in it and those little prawns (jumbo krill?) from a can that only exist to… Continue reading One-plus-One Dumplings: Uyghur-licious
Keep calm and carry on
I’m having a few issues upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to 2.5, and compatability with my plugins/theme. All will be well by Sunday. Addendum (Saturday): All is well now. Also, you can buy the “Keep Calm And Carry On” poster from Sfgirlbybay on Etsy or you can grab a whole pile of Keep Calm and Carry… Continue reading Keep calm and carry on
À la recherche du “taco truck” perdu
This week on SBS: I fear the loss of LA’s taco trucks. Still no RSS, comments are on! Addendum (Friday night): RSS is go. Point your feed readers to the SBS food blog feed.