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...
I'm impressed with Mendeley's response to blog posts about it, but I'm not just trolling for comments. Rather, I want help understanding what seems to me to very odd behaviour. So odd, that I took a bunch of screenshots that might help me tell the story.
