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MISSION MUNCHIES

MISSION MUNCHIES

Munchies is an excellent Vice series following various American chefs on late night food tours of their cities. This excellent new episode features Mission Chinese food chef Danny Bowien and is one of the best yet. If you haven’t seen these before, we recommend watching the whole series, especially the Momofuku, Animal & M Wells [...]

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COOKIN’ TACO’S WITH TIMMY VULGAR

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

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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The Double R Diner, Twin Peaks

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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BIRTH TO PLATE LISTENING

BIRTH TO PLATE LISTENING

Uncompromising musician Matthew Herbert recording a whole record using sounds from a pig’s life, from birth to plate. PETA are inevitably mad (the pig skin drum especially annoyed them,) but I think it’s actually quite a respectful way to document the reality of a pigs life, hopefully leaving people slightly less disconnected from all that [...]

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BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS 2: JASON ALEXANDER, LIPTON ONION RECIPE & SOUP MIX

BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS 2: JASON ALEXANDER, LIPTON ONION RECIPE & SOUP MIX

This may seem odd now, but everyone ate processed food in the years BJ, i.e. Before JOliver, Lord of Pukkatonshire. Since he convinced the entirety of our fair isles to only purchase fresh organic produce we can only look back in bemusement at these past practices, like characters from a dystopian utopian dystopian film. I for one [...]

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