Observations on the world and its inhabitants
It sits there on the supermarket shelf, a perfectly unassuming white plastic tub. You buy it weekly without a second thought, perhaps paying a premium for the thick, dense Greek style you favour, accepting the cost as just another line on the grocery bill. If you’re not a yoghurt person, move on swiftly. But what ...
Aspirin exists in the modern mind as a simple household remedy, yet its lineage as a biological intervention spans thousands of years, beginning with ancient willow bark preparations. The scientific understanding of the compound underwent a massive transition in 1971 with the discovery of its specific enzymatic pathways—a breakthrough that eventually merited a Nobel Prize. ...
As usual, when ‘they say’ I can’t do it – I do it anyway. Oh yes. I’ve been exploring how to toast bread without a toaster for about 2 years. I’ve cracked it! I along with most people are conditioned to believe we need a specific appliance for every single task in the kitchen. Want ...
The Epistolary Convergence WhatsApp messages disturbed the digital ether. Tarek (14:11 Friday): Walker, Elara. Need to map the intersection of digital validation and real-world solvency. The friends’ latest theatre requires surgical review. Gilded Spoon, Sat, 19:00? Walker (14:28 Friday): The theatre of the self, budgeted in borrowed pixels. I shall bring my forensic narration. Confirmed. ...
A month or so after their breakfast discourse on love, Walker found himself in the passenger lift of Tarek’s building, invited to dinner. He was ascending to the domain of a man who believed in the tangible virtues of a well-calibrated life. The secure parking, accessed with a precise code and monitored by Tarek’s remote ...
I can fully expect to be most hated and called various names for this article. Flick through any social media feed on a Friday night and you’ll be met with a familiar sight: artfully arranged plates of food, clinking glasses, and grinning faces bathed in the warm glow of a trendy restaurant. Here in the ...
I’ve been searching for the last 5 years for an economical very small microwave oven. This is something I could use when working out of hotels. Well, I gave up on the search. But not easily. I even explored trying to build with my own hands, a small microwave by taking component parts from second ...
So, you all scoffed. You sneered. You laughed, pointed fingers and snorted with derision about the many failures in my quest to conquer the impossible: microwaving an egg without it exploding like a miniature culinary grenade. “It can’t be done!” you declared, between guffaws. You sneered, “You’ll end up with scrambled egg on the ceiling!” ...
This is no joke. I’ve been looking for a particular brand and taste of chocolate milk for 50 years. And now I’ve found it. When I was a young child I used to enjoy it cold, in cans labelled C-CMEL. After searching intermittently for years, I could not find it anywhere on the net. So ...
Okay – I’ve been known to do the impossible – partly because I am ‘impossible’. For example, I found a way to make microwaved poached eggs – after years of experimentation. And now you see, what ‘everybody’ might think is grilled cheese on toast. Except that it isn’t. This is not a recommendation to eat ...
The photographs will be an instant distraction in this post. Yeah some saw a boiled or poached egg on plate, and will have thought ‘What’s great about that?!! FFS‘. Except that it isn’t ‘a boiled or poached egg’ in the usual sense of how eggs are boiled or poached (using water in a pot)!! It ...
I’m giving a few simple tips on making your cooked food last longer. Well no, you can’t eat it and have it – and this is not about eating more slowly. The short message is avoid as much as possible getting human spit or germs into your food. I’m not in the business of providing ...
