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Starbucking
There’s an apocryphal tale I know about Hershey’s chocolate. Once upon a time it was made in batches, and milk deliveries were lined up outside the factory waiting to go into each batch. They found out...
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Nothing more than another glass of wine
On the last shopping trip to the wine merchants I happened to find a bottle of 2009 Domaine des Nugues Beaujolais Villages among the 2010 bottles. The 2009 tastes better than the 2010 (more body,...
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Every so often we roast a chicken or duck. The bones get made into stock, the leftover meat goes in a cassoulet or risotto or jambalaya, stock gets used as and when needed. One thing we don’t make...
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Black Marks Of Shame
Mmm, gaming holiday. I played three fun games: Grand Exhibition was an alt-Cthulhu game (that is, SAN loss and horror but not the mythos) around displaying an artist’s mind-bending work all in one...
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Nine Worlds 2015
Whew! Back from 9 Worlds, and it was much fun. I learned a lot about podcasts, listened to skeptics talk about fairies (Deborah Hyde), spent a lot of time on the history and academia track, listened to...
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Just One Drink: Gin & Tonic
So, as a new parent I can only really have one or two drinks in the evening. Cocktails make it easier to ration alcohol, and I like gin. This is a really nice G&T. The G&T was a way to make...
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Just One Drink: Gimlet
A gimlet is a small, sharp tool for drilling holes, and a gimlet cocktail is similarly short and sharp. According to my favourite cocktail book (Robert Cross’ Classic 1000 Cocktails) the Gimlet emerged...
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Just One Drink: French 75
This is the recipe I used for a cheapskate French 75: 25 ml gin 25 ml lemon juice 25 ml sugar syrup 100 ml cava or prosecco slice of pink grapefruit The IBA’s standard recipe is 6:3:1.5 champagne to...
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Just One Drink: Martini
52% of my fellow Britons want to leave the EU. I have no idea what this will mean long term, but the pound is already suffering. I’m sad, because I like being European as well as British. Here’s a...
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Eight Drunken Gods
In Drunken Master Beggar So’s art manifests through the Eight Drunken Gods (derived from the Eight Immortals). These eight avatars are the expression of mastery not through principle but rather...
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