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I’m loving the press releases that I’ve been getting on behalf of the Bittersweet Partnership, a Molson Coors organisation dedicated to ‘unleashing women’s love for beer’. According to Al Murray’s Pub...
I’m loving the press releases that I’ve been getting on behalf of the Bittersweet Partnership, a Molson Coors organisation dedicated to ‘unleashing women’s love for beer’. According to Al Murray’s Pub...
As always, The Daily Mail has the welfare of its readers close to its heart. Today they have published a list of food rules which should guide uncertain consumers on to the path of healthy eating. Unusually for lists of rules, there is a...
[][1]The Market of Optimism will be helping Perth mark its 800th birthday The Christmas credit card bills might have started to arrive but, compared to last January when we were all staring down the barrel of global economic implosion,...
[][1]Farmers Markets Go Digital A couple of quickies. If you have the January blues then this Independent article by the food writer Simon Majumdar is a ray of joy. Fed up with your lot in life? Then take a leaf out of Simon’s book...
I’ve been reading a couple of books about food history in Britain over the last month so there was a certain thrill of recognition when I clicked on this Guardian slideshow. The images are taken from a book called The Visual History...
[][1]Camflava: African sunshine for a Scottish winter Right, I’ve had it with the cold weather. It was fun at first but my energy bills are beginning to arrive and I’m not laughing any more. I’m tempted to go outside and...
A typical Sauchiehall Street scene We all know it’s cold out there because The Guardian has done a history of snow article and The Telegraph is shocked by an unpredented rise in ‘anti-social snowballing incidents’....
Scotland yesterday According to the headlines, it’s the coldest winter in thirty years. Pensioners in South Wales are burning books to keep warm; instead of breaking rocks, convicts are being ordered to clear snow and, at least...
This 5pm blogger was tickled by this interview with Marco Pierre White in The Telegraph. Part of their Fame and Fortune strand, it asks people in the public eye about their attitude to money. Over the course of the fairly lengthy article,...
Tollcross in January . . . if you're drinking retsina We know that 5pm blog readers are a cosmopolitan bunch who are as happy tucking in to taramasalata as they are getting outside of a plate of bangers and mash.Whether it be Cullen skink...
OMG! That chilli corn dog is, like, to die for! Eat your heart out, big O scene from When Harry Met Sally. America’s Food Network have just published their top Foodgasm faces of 2009 and I want a slice of what ever it that this lot...
There is more to life than cabbage Happy New Year to all the 5pm blog readers. May you have a tasty 2010. Now on with the business of the day. The chances are that there is still a large pile of Christmas cake lurking in your kitchen...
Lasers see in the Bells at Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party Not everybody likes Hogmanay but those who don’t would probably change their minds if they realised that they were in the same camp as Michael Winner. In today’s...
For reasons which my long-suffering belt makes clear, this Telegraph story about male corsets caught my eye. They launch in Marks and Sparks on January 7, a date which I imagine will also be a busy time for gym induction courses. ...
Greg Wallace: face of fun or face of evil? As ever, The Guardian’s Word of Mouth blog makes for entertaining reading with this entry about the worst food trends of the Noughties. I’m with Mr Majumdar on the proliferation of...
Whoopie pies: the next big thing? Now that the Noughties are drawing to a close, it’s time to try and guess what might happen on the food front in the Teenies. Naturally, the papers are already full of confident predictions as to...