February 2012
5 posts
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What's For Dinner? by Fay Ripley: The Review
Her easy recipes are the reason Mumsnet don’t go to Iceland, apparently
For members of Mumsnet there are no grey areas. Life is divided into two distinct groups - things they love and things they abhor. In the first set are Bugaboos, cafes which allow breastfeeding breeders to wop their waps out, and haranguing women who go back to work after giving birth. Things they hate include,...
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Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape: The Review
Oh, Gordon. I wish you’d bat for my team
Oh Gordon, you big, sexy, sweaty hunk, you. You hulking Easter Island rockface, you domineering, sweaty man-beast, with legs as thick as a walnut tree, face as grooved as a walnut itself. You’re everything I could possibly want in my fantasy figure – you’d shout me into submission, call me a snivelling twat, throw a lumpy white roux all over me and...
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The Intolerant Gourmet by Pippa Kendrick: The...
Regina George: 120 calories and 48 calories from fat. What percent is that? Gretchen: Uh, 48 into 120? Regina: I’m only eating foods with less than 30 percent calories from fat. Cady: It’s 40 percent. Well 48 over 120 equals X over 100 and then you cross multiply and get the value of X. Regina: Whatever, I’m getting cheese fries.
Regina’s attitude to food could, quite...
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Mini Review: Chase Marmalade Vodka
Getting home after date night, having shared a bottle of wine and losing that boozy buzz on the tube, I had an insatiable urge for a nightcap.
#danielradcliffeproblems
“Why don’t we open the Marmalade Vodka?” my boyfriend asked, as I slumped on his sofa, scrolling through all the Twitter I’d missed during dinner. That reminded me - @ChaseVodka had tweeted me earlier in the week to suggest...
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The Fabulous Baker Brothers: The Review
Which one is the hot one, again?
I read an interview with Delia in the 1990s where she moaned that whenever she went round to someone’s house for dinner they always cooked something fancy, trying to impress her, and all she really wanted was fish and chips or something.
#firstworldproblems
But when I invited my friend the renowned-food-and-drinks-writer Douglas over for dinner, I knew how...
