http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/darin-strauss-car-crash-kira-cochraneobv a v tragic event for the writer, but like...who commissioned this? it really is a long winded and conceptually weird article. load of rubbish.― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
obv a v tragic event for the writer, but like...who commissioned this? it really is a long winded and conceptually weird article. load of rubbish.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Sunday, 27 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Kira Cochrane is the Women's Editor - she probably volunteered to write about it and nobody said no.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, 27 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i hate to rag on one writer or whatever but almost everything she ever writes is utter rubbish, so narrow.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/03/chocolate-hazelnut-spread-taste-test
i can think of one they're missing. wankers.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's pieces like that that show quite how far the Guardian has fallen. Back in my day it was all Michael Foot eating Nutella on the West Bank.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
guardian is amaze u herbs
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
imagine paying a tenner for chocolate spread? i am as big a food wanker as anyone but seriously....A TENNER. you could buy a fucking steak for that.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
at least you can reuse the jar
― just sayin, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Arguably the finest accompaniment for pancakes
if you are a revolting barbarian, or 3
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
£6
http://i8.goodness-direct.co.uk/d/672408b.jpg
what do you guys use? i like jam myself..
never madly into maple syrup
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
for pancakes? lemon, sugar.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Perhaps you've never had real maple syrup? The stuff pictured isn't actually pure. I still like the diluted stuff though.
I like butter + plain yogurt + maple syrup
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
or butter and jam
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
love maple syrup on us pancake, would never put on crepe.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Chocolate spread, honest answer.
― ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Chocolate spread and slices of banana like they give you in PARIS.
― trishyb, Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/mar/03/rupert-murdoch-bskyb-win-damage-coalition
Obviously I'm a Murdoch hata but the first para of this is o_0.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xps - and what is wrong is lemon and sugar I ask you? GET US OUT OF EUROPE NOW.
― I'm sorry, I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain it. (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeesh xp
― caek, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Wanted to buy some maple syrup when home for Xmas but it was superduper expensive - just have to wait for a Canadian friend to bring me some.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lemon or lime and sugar or fo tbh
will settle for Suzette stylings if I'm somewhere froufrou
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the pure stuff is always really really pricey (but a little goes a very long way)
xpost
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
actually I had cherries and rum once that was pretty fucking A
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
banana fried in rum, and chocolate ice cream
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Thursday, 3 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got some amazing fig preserves that when 'syruped' with melted butter do OK for pancakes.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
You can get first-rate Canadian maple syrup for about £4.75 out of any big Sainsbury’s (and quite a few of the “Local” ones as well). Not cheap but it lasts and pays for itself a dozen times over.
Didn’t know about that “Canada Store” in Covent Garden – I ought to go and investigate but the problem with me is that even after 26 years in the capital I can’t go into Covent Garden without getting lost.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Lay a trail of string behind you (and hi Marcello! btw)
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been to this place many times due to my uncle's proximity to it -
http://www.sugarshackvt.com
and actually in the scheme of things $35 for a half gallon of 100% pure maple syrup is a pretty good deal! (though you'd have to pay for shipping, erk)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haha and before anyone says i'm off topic i think you'll agree this is possibly the most "guardian" conversation ever
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i just buy my maple syrup from the supermarket, it's not that expensive imo
― just sayin, Friday, 4 March 2011 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/05/north-road-london-ec1-review
On my five-degree scale – in descending order, Awesome, Cool, OK, Meh, Pants – several dishes were between OK and Meh
is this seriously the best they can do for a food writer?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 March 2011 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I semi-lolled.
John Lanchester is a fantastic writer (I loved his novels Mr Phillips and The Debt to Pleasure, and liked his 'Whoops' book about the financial crisis), but this article is gratuitously slick - with that 'know it all' style of positing a number of propositions as facts, that don't bear up to examination, e.g
-In cooking as in crime writing, the global trend is Scandinavian.
- Broadly speaking, we look south for posh food, east for ethnic food, west for junk food and north for deep-fried Mars bars.
John has great gifts as a writer - his turn of phrase, his use of metaphor. Hope he doesn't squander them in becoming a Craig Brown.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 6 March 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not just slick, it's bone lazy.
plus somebody dissects it in the comments in forensic detail and his actual points/logic are all over the place.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 March 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I missed the comments - oh dear.
The review actually reminded me a bit of Momus - that kind of inventing a 'new global/cultural trend' or new 'insights' on the differences between Japan and the West out of a few anecdotal and zeitgeist comments.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 6 March 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
At least he's not Jay Raynor.
― I'm sorry, I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain it. (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 6 March 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Or Giles Coren.
― I'm sorry, I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain it. (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 6 March 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Giles Coren wrote one of the worst novels ever written and will have to live with it for the rest of his life.
Jay Rayner's okay (we have a v. good mutual friend) but is one of the most competitive people I've ever met in my life. If friend and I hadn't gone to high school with 100 guys just like him we would probably find him really irritating, but I did zing him by saying my mom's matzoh ball soup would give any he's had a run for its money (true BTW, craving it now).
― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, 6 March 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
at least coren and rayner would never use a sentence like the above one...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 March 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, can't see Jay generalizing wildly about "ethnic" food.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, 6 March 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like jay rayner's stuff
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Sunday, 6 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
When Facebook gets involved, relationships can quickly fall apart – as Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi have discovered. But dictatorships are not the only ties being dissolved by social networking sites: now Facebook is increasingly being blamed for undermining American marriages.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i just saw this but -
this seems true?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
apart from that yeah the review is pretty awful but he's waaaaaaay better than matthew norman who used to do the guardian saturday review.
jay rayners good!
I think that 'global' is probably a bad choice of words.
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm guessing he just means that all over the world there have been many many articles written abt noma + how scandinavian food is doing new things, which seems like a trend? like how spanish food was a trend when el bulli was 'the best restaurant in the world'
― just sayin, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xpArghh, Norman! He's now in the Telegraph, ruined the Weekend section for me.
I just get tired of them all after a while. Mostly read food blogs these days.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
No, but he does generalise wildly about vegetarians, vegans, anywahere outside London.
A recent tweet - "Dinner. Birmingham. Feel my pain." just about sums him up for me.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link