Five of the most useless kitchen gadgets on the market today
May 4, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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I would love to meet the inventors of some of these products. The person who poured their blood sweat and tears into a piece of useless gadgetry. I can only imagine how much fun a person who was psyched about a Strawberry Slicester would be. For the most part, my issue with gadgets is that [...]
The Demise of Western ‘Culture’
April 27, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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We’ve all done it. Be it the clandestine trip through the drive through, the late night foray into the restaurant or the service centre stop out of necessity, we’ve all eaten fast food. On a recent trip north I found myself needing lunch on one of those endless strips of highway that crisscross the western [...]
Free yourself from food fascism
April 12, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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I have a wine maker friend who has worked in the industry from Australia to South Africa, North America to Europe. He once told a story about an afternoon in the South of France where he found himself surrounded by some of the best in the business. They were attending a wine conference and the assembled elite [...]
From Chic to Trashy in Three Easy Steps.
March 28, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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I have a theory that even the most devout foodies have a guilty food pleasure. Personally I have several, the king of all guilty pleasures being the gas station sandwich. Shocking isn’t it? But while enjoying one the other day I considered the question of how a sandwich can be trash? It’s just bread, chicken [...]
Great food deserves great accessories
March 2, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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My husband and I went to dinner the other night. Not a particularly fascinating anecdote I’ll admit, but it occurred to me that at this restaurant, not only was the food great, but there were also some great accessories. By accessories I don’t mean my earrings, the flowers on the table or the cutlery and [...]
Fashionable food
February 9, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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When did food become something that could come be either in or out of fashion? I ask this question because as a cook I am guilty of not serving things because I consider them to be unfashionable. This stops me from serving dishes that have lost none of their appeal when it comes to flavour, [...]
Can food be considered a collectable?
February 2, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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I am incapable of walking past interesting foodstuffs and by “interesting” I mean pretty much anything that I think I might ever use at some point in my life. Like most women I have my fair share of shoes and handbags and I do come across both that suddenly become must haves. But where my [...]
Food fixes everything, doesn’t it?
January 26, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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This past week I was a little under the weather and one of my husband’s first reactions (albeit after “don’t give that to me”) was can I bring you some soup. This started me thinking about the fact that, in my life at least, the first thing that we often think of when there is [...]
Is food photography the equivalent of intellectual porn?
January 19, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
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Someone much cleverer that I once described food photography as “thinking woman’s porn” which is a phrase I adore. When I first started this site I didn’t have any pictures of the food. This was mainly because, if you have ever tried to photograph food, you will know that it is a really difficult thing [...]
Time Travel through Food
July 20, 2009 by Simple or Sensational
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I was at my local market last week, not a farmers market but a large scale city market and it struck me that lately we have been inundated by the concept of “local” and “organic” produce. In the city where I live, if I search farmers markets, there are no less than 140 in my [...]
