#Food

The importance of food

The great press baron, Lord Northcliffe, used to tell his journalists that four subjects could be relied upon for abiding public interest: crime, love, money, and food. Only the last of these is funda…

10 New Trader Joe's Items To Try In June 2026 (Before They're Gone!)

Vietnam earns record 11 Michelin-starred restaurants

9 New Aldi Finds You Need To Try In June 2026

7 New Costco Finds To Add To Cart This June 2026

10 New Trader Joe's Items To Try In June 2026 (Before They're Gone!)

Sprinkle Some Magic Into Your Desserts With These Funfetti Cake Recipes

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Is Whooped By One Of Its Own Damn Readers

Vietnam’s street food is facing the chop

Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini dies aged 76

Free Ice Cream Gift for One Child Prompts Donations to Fund Free Sweets For All Kids the Entire Summer

Y’all. It’s rhubarb season

I paced myself and only had half a pastry per day.

Opening 80-year-Old WWII US Army C-Ration can with original chocolate, coffee, biscuits, and jam inside

Aldi Just Added Matcha Popcorn And Firecracker Oreos To Their May Lineup

Well it looked good

Sometimes I'll hedge on a title for an entry and leave the original one in the post URL.

What’s Food Sovereignty got to do with it? The New Geopolitics of Food

One last meal at this Old Spaghetti Factory

One last scoop of spumoni + 6 photos

What to do when you can't eat

Another night of pain and diarrhoea kept me awake. Rather than do something utterly mind-numbing despite overwhelming tiredness, I decided to distract myself somewhat. "How?" you ask. By transcribing …

Steamies

An ode to a hotdog.

The Value of Your Local Diner

Local diner inspired thoughts.

Now

Posting late, eating sandwiches, running in the Lakes, feeling doomed.

Somewhere to go to do one thing

Missing going to places to do precisely one thing.

Now: 3 February - 9 February 2025

February's here. Easily the worst month of the year (sorry Valentine's Day enjoyers). Still dark, and as if on cue: here comes the wet weather, at last.

Waffle House - FFSR

A return visit to Waffle House to sample the best it has to offer. It does not disappoint.

Belgian beer, French cheese

When you go to a foreign country, it's your duty to consume as much of the local fare as possible. It helps if that fare has 11% alcohol by volume.

Popeyes - FFSR

The first dispatch from Sam's mission to review every fast food restaurant chain in the United States.

Flavour of the Now: hot honey

The product marketing collective has decided that all limited-availability tweakable mass-consumed products must now be offered in a "hot honey"-flavoured variant.

Stockholm kanelbulle ranking

All of the kanelbullar I ate on my trip to Stockholm in 2023, ranked from best to worst.

Flavor of the Now: Orange

The flavour of the now used to be peach; now it's orange. Soon it will be something different.