It was always a good joke to point out that Perrier was more expensive than petrol. The joke just got better. Coke in a small 7½ oz. can costs US$8.50 a US gallon and, better yet, 50-140% more per ounce than Coke in an old 12 oz. can. The full article is here. Money quote:
You’ll save money...
Some things are too bizarre to make up, or to believe, and such is the story of the “ambient sausage rolls”. I saw it first at [Yahoo News] http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100201/tuk-ambient-sausage-rolls-an-error-6323e80.html, which explained that the Plain English Campaign had informed the Co-O...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.4 This week: 89.3
There’s nothing to say I can get serious here from time to time, or that I can’t cross-post to anywhere that'll have me.
There’s a fascinating paper in last week's Science Express1 from a heavyweight bunch of scientists and advisers in the UK, on “th...
Great round-up in The Smart Set of food in the movies. Paula Marantz Cohen romps through the classics -- Leave the gun, take the cannoli -- and brings out both their individual flavour and the way each has influenced some of its successors. I haven’t seen them all, something I would make amends fo...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.5 This week: 89.3
New(ish) year, new approach. No more attempting to number by week, and no more beating myself over the head if I miss a week.
The Art of Eating is my unmissable periodical, the most intelligent, informative, well-written publication on food available...
