I doubt that anyone is using this blog to follow events in the world of no-knead bread, but just in case, there’s a follow-up article in yesterday’s New York Times. Lots of people have tried lots of experiments, and the article rounds up some of them. But it does not mention my greatest discovery,...

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Wednesday 6 December: Away in the land of the super-size portion, where a side salad could feed a family of four (rabbits) for a week, and it is a good thing I don't have a set of scales to scare me. There is just so much food, so readily accessible tha...

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Sitting on a long flight from Paris to DC, watching a Tedtalk by Helen Fisher. She's a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, and she has been studying love in its various guises; lust, romantic love and attachment ("so that you can stand living with someone"). A fine talk it was, which...

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Tuesday 28 November: Damn this accursed plateau.

There's a clear metaphor at the heart of Wasabi: Jean Reno sucks great gobbets of the aforementioned cruciferous paste from his fingertips and evinces no emotion, no stimulation, whatsoever. He's that hard. Or, alternatively, this wasabi is entirely without heat. Take your pick. One thing’s for...

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