Miscellanea

Where to buy al dente pasta? Ever tried buying al dente pasta? Me and a mate from catering had a right argument about whether that story about the bloke who wanted to buy al dente pasta was made up or true. I reckoned it was true. Not everyone spends their life cooking and knows kitchen … Read more

Today I got stuck in the carbs/dry goods cupboard, because not everything I keep in there is a carb product, like groats, rice, pasta, flours — there’s also things like nutritional yeast, red lentils, and sometimes even crisps. This is a proper two-door stainless-steel catering cupboard. It’s got four shelves, and the ugly truth hit … Read more

What painful dilemma do Chefs wrestle with in their hard lives when they get up in the morning on a day off? What would I eat? It’s a personal thing obviously, but I’d rather be hungry than eat something… not even that it’s unpleasant, but just not what I actually wanted. Nobody judges my dishes … Read more

Today’s news round-up. Estimates of this year’s harvests are coming in Great Britain, brassicas, yields down by as much as 25%. Outside Scotland, farming across the whole of Britain had a very bad season in everything. In Czechia the longest drought since records began and veg yields a third lower than last year. Farmers in … Read more

How many children have vegans killed in Gaza? Are there many vegans in the Israeli army? One in eighteen. That’s even a bit more than average, because one in twenty Israelis is vegan. There’s no data on where vegans serve or how many of them took part or are taking part in the genocide in … Read more