The pressure has been building. At the last count, I was doing stuff online (i.e. sharing content) at 10 different places.1 And they all seem to require feeding. That’s fine; after all, an online social relationship is no different from one in wetspace. They all need regular grooming. What I fin...
Two identical loaves -- my basic part wholemeal sourdough -- had been retarded overnight in the fridge. They were brought out at the same time, and warmed up on the counter for about an hour. Then I had a madcap whim. Why not bake one under a cold cloche? So I did just that, and after 22 mins, w...
S&P’s hammerblow arrived at almost exactly the same time yesterday evening as the huge Italian cruise liner “Costa Concordia” went aground and then keeled over. It would be tempting to use the ship as a metaphor for the Italian economy: grand, immobile, half-sunk, a wrecked fun palace with some...
Of course the human brain is wired to notice coincidences, and of course this is no more likely than any two topics turning up on the same day, but I did happen to notice two bready stories with a religious theme.
The tiny stamp was used to identify baked products; experts think it belonged to...
