The Zombie Wears Vintage

I enjoy a bit of gourmet food every now and then. Small portions, unusual flavours – it tends to be an experience, and for that I enjoy it. However, if I’m honest I get more pleasure from the good-food-for-good-food’s-sake type of restaurant – the place where the ambiance is great, the people nice, and the [...]

Perhaps the strangest blog post I’ve written in a while – but how cool is this?! I found this nearly spherical egg last week, and then ran around the house excitedly showing everyone I could and exclaiming loudly about it (with rising levels of empathy and pity for the poor fowl that had the misfortune of squeezing this beauty out). Then I [...]

Yesterday, we got up very late… and more than a little hungover. There was a long period of lying in bed, hugging and watching TV. Nigel Slater came on, we watched, tummies rumbled. The food looked so good that we made it for dinner, without a recipe. And it was gooooooood. So, without further ado, [...]

Dinner. Tea. Supper. Whatever you call it, for most 9-5 workers it is the main meal of the day. I tend to start my mornings with a coffee… then eat something dull and uninspiring for lunch. For me, dinner’s where it’s at. The thing is, despite it being my favourite meal, on work nights I’m the last person to [...]

I had a life changing experience last night. There I was, avoiding the piles of rubbish dotting my room, and instead focusing my attentions on my utterly inappropriate crush, Michel Roux Jr. Andy had bought over a chocolate bar (part of a strange deal where I fed him cold leftover potato salad and he bought [...]

I love good packaging. A clever idea, a neat design, some fancy typography. Today’s theme? Chocolate! A quick trip to Sainsbury’s the other day resulted in my crouched on the floor taking pictures of chocolate bars – all in a days work. They are cool though… Emergency Chocolate! It cures all manner of woes, all [...]

I love cake. I love technology. It stands to reason, therefore, that I would love the two combined. No, not in a robots-taking-over-the-world kind of way, with robots shaped like cakes sneaking into our kitchens and then transforming, trapping us and holding us hostage in exchange for AAA batteries and WD40. And not in the (slightly less [...]