Life outside of Life has been hectic lately, which is why I am only just getting round to writing up the breads I made for a dinner on the first Saturday after Fornacalia. The meal was chilli with all the fixins, and three breads.

First off, to keep the wolf from the door, thin slices of semoli...

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About this time last year, and the year before that and the year before that, a thought troubled me. Could this be the year I kiss Quicken goodbye?

Anyone who has used this venerable financial package -- especially on a Mac -- will surely sympathise. I'm not going to go into the myriad ways in whi...

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Funny, the way the brain latches on to coincidences. I'm having trouble reconciling two things I've seen today.

One is Philip K. Howard's TedTalk. He not only identifies what's wrong with the legal system (mostly, but not exclusively, in the US) but also how to fix it: bring back trust, and all...

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What to call sourdough breads, given that they’re not always sour? There is a variety of alternatives. The French levain is popular, but somewhat poncy and effete. (Unless, of course, you happen to be French.) We do have the perfectly good English word leaven, but for some obscure reason, while th...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.3 This week: 88.7

Drifting, very slowly, down. I think.

Marion Nestle, Colin Tudge, Michael Pollan. Any one of them could have said this.

Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.

It was, in fac...

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