Curry is constantly bubbling away in the background thoughts of this poster so I was tickled by this spicy story in Saturday’s Telegraph. The man in charge of catering on India’s railways has set himself the massive task of standardising...
Ever since Iggy Campos opened his Iggs restaurant in Edinburgh’s Old Town, way back in 1989, tapas have always been a feature on his menus. Seeing which way the wind was blowing, he beefed up the tapas part of his offer in 2001 when he...
Voice of reason Kanye West has been blogging about his birthday cake; a giant replica of a trainer he designed, the Nike Air Yeezy. Perhaps it’s made with shoe pastry. ...
Not only are cats available for human comfort in restaurants (‘Fancy a little commitment free cat stroking?’), it appears a duck has taken up residence in a Hampshire based eaterie. The diners just can’t get enough,...
When I was at secondary school, prevailing wisdom had it that by the time I was ready to enter the job market there would be no jobs because robots would be doing most tasks. All that we humans would need to do was open our gobs...
The University of Nottingham has come out with a fun piece of research that suggests where we live determines how we taste food and drink. The taste preferences of the UK’s major regions were analysed by food psychologist Greg Tucker...
The Telegraph have a wee snippet about a new restaurant, the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona here . I love the hospital theme and nurse-style uniforms, but I’m not too sure how appetizing that burger looks….Make mine a...
Generally I’m not a fan of the novelty cake. Maybe this is because I like to eat a cake, and the time that it takes to decorate a novelty cake means that the sponge is past it’s best. Or maybe it’s because they generally...
What was I thinking about? There is still no word on where Sam Mendes and Mr Connery may have gone for a bite to eat but, according to this in the Evening News, half of Oasis were eyeballing the haggis at Whiski bar on the Royal Mile ...
The 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival launched last night with Sam Mendes and Sean Connery turning up on the red carpet for the premiere of Mendes’ Away We Go. The big question is where did these starry names eat while in...
Bacon, or at least products bearing some slim connection to bacon, have become a regular feature of this blog with the piggy food stuff making appearances here, here and here. However, I reckon that this piece in The Onion represents a new...
What better way is there to wile away a summer afternoon than re-creating album-cover art in food form? Yeah, I didn’t think so… Japanese blog Jacket Lunch Box has pages upon pages of food-based replicas, some good and some...
Hot on the heels of ‘do you want fish assholes with that sir?‘ I’ve stumbled on this brand new and fantastic list of surprising food. But before you start harshly scoffing at canned silkworm pupae or rattlesnake meat,...
Cookie moved in with us about 3 months ago. After some initial anxiousness on his part he’s now been successfully rebranded as ‘Dr Henry Philip McCoy’ (he responds better to ‘Henry’ than he ever did to...
There are a few phrases that chefs really don’t want to hear on their shift. ‘The environmental officer/drugs squad/Michael Winner has just walked through the door’ are near the top but, more likely to have them sweating under their whites,...
< p class="MsoNormal"> Do you want cheese with that? If ever an image would prompt you to bleach your eyes then it is surely this horrific pic of Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan posing as a Burger King...
