It has been walnut season here for a couple of weeks, and we've been merrily cracking them at every opportunity. That, and glowing plaudits at The Fresh Loaf, persuaded me to try Dan Lepard's Walnut Loaf. Dan is rapidly becoming one of my favourite bread mavens (Santa knows this) and after the stunn...
From yesterday's New York Times:
As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to a report Thursday from an advocacy group.
No w...
This just appeared in the toilet at work.
I confess. Numbers 9 and 10 gave me pause for thought, 9 because a single towel isn’t capable of drying my hands without falling apart, and 10 because ... well, because. But 11 is immensely reassuring.
2021-11-04 I subsequently learned, thanks to a T...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.0 This week: 88.0
I wanted to write something else, but haven’t finished doing the homework.
The Economist's Green View has a fascinating piece that offers a fascinating by-catch from Copenhagen: reduced fishing. Globally, fishing is a disaster.
Landlubbers hand po...
I went to an event billed as an “Aperitivo biodiverso”, upstairs at a very fashionable winebar in the heart of fashionable Rome. Laid on by an NGO that works with indigenous people in Ecuador and Peru, it was full. Three young women at a table took my 10 euro contribution. I fought my way through to...
