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COOKIN’ TACO’S WITH TIMMY VULGAR
Timmy Vulgar is best known as frontman in the now-defunct Clone Defects and newer project, the awesome ‘alien punk’ band Human Eye, who have great records out on In the red and Sacred Bones. What most of you won’t know is that besides being the frontman in a killer band, Timmy’s also a talented cook, [...]
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Christmas Conspirators of Pleasure: Delia Smith & Heston Blumenthal, Waitrose
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. Tracy Island. Buzz Lightyear. A great Christmas tradition is the goose chase for that elusive gift. This year I kind of experienced that tradition, but if I am Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All The Way then my chase was not a Turboman figure for my son to make up for being [...]
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A LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS EVE TRUFFLES RECIPE
OK, so it’s pretty close to Christmas and you’re lacking some presents. Did you forget? Are you too lazy/disorganised? Or are you just too poor/cheap? Doesn’t matter, the solution is home made truffles!* They seem really gourmet and lovingly crafted but they’re actually quite cheap (if you choose your nice dark chocolate based on what [...]
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A HUNGOVER CHRISTMAS BRUNCH RECIPE
You’ve promised to make breakfast on Christmas day, purely to avoid having to have anything to do with cooking Christmas dinner. The upside of this is that it frees you to get on with the serious business of drinking, opening presents, spending quality time with the family and more drinking. The downside is when you [...]
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STUFF WE LIKED THIS WEEK
The best film about raw fish since Finding Nemo ©Leisuretwitter The kids from excellent danish punk bands Iceage and Sexdrome have their own DIY cookery show (it’s be better if I understood Danish, but it still beats Gino D’Campo.) Bill Cosby kills a vampire with a hot dog sausage Lucky Peach Issue 2 hits the [...]
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BLOODY MARYS, ORANGES AND A DRUNK COOK MASTERCLASS WITH JACK A. LANTERN
In the hottest English October in recorded history (my thermometer / Twister melted in less than five minutes), Benjamin Savva and I held a cookery class for Belly Kids at Beach Gallery. We turned up drunk at the gallery from a couple of bottles of white wine and coke; our own bad mix (the white [...]
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BEERTIME! ROBIN TURNER, PAUL MOODY & GEORGE ORWELL’S QUEST FOR THE PERFECT PUB
In 1946 George Orwell wrote an essay titled ‘The Moon Under Water‘ an idyllic paean to his perfect pub. As with all of Orwell’s work, his words still ring true, painting a picture of an essentially classless, welcoming place ‘whose clientele… go there for conversation as much as for the beer’. During a chance visit [...]
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STREET FOOD – THE BEST RIBS IN LONDON
The Ribman has a stall at Brick Lane every Sunday, selling ribmeat rolls or wraps and rack of ribs for £5 a piece, they are indeed generally known as the best ribs in London. He’s become so popular (Jay Rayner tweeted praise) that he’s now also got a stall at Kings Cross every [...]
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The Double R Diner, Twin Peaks
Journeying by car across to Seattle, I stopped off in the small town of Twin Peaks, surrounded by forests of beautiful Douglas Firs, close to the border with Canada. Hankering for a much needed caffeine hit, I was lucky to come across two members of the local law enforcement (one Native American, the other, it [...]
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STUFF WE LIKED THIS WEEK
A video of Kate Bush talking vegetarian cooking with Delia, courtesy of excellent food blog The Trencherman David Chang, James Murphy and Aziz Ansari eat and get drunk in Tokyo (Paid for by GQ) The Place is a restaurant in West Village NY with the best/worst video promo I’ve ever seen – very much worth [...]
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COOKING WITH POWERS – FRIED CHICKEN
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THE RUNCIBLE SPOON
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BIRTH TO PLATE LISTENING
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EATING HORSE
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