"Cumin has a unique distinction: it is the only English word whose ancestry can be traced back to Sumerian" Brilliant from @stephenkb.

Useful advice from @BootstrapCook.

Good question.

“there are more cookbooks in Arabic from before 1400 than in the rest of the world’s languages put together.”

I disagree with all of the rankings, and some of the good disagrees with me!

Basically, we are getting it wrong.

Well, there you go.

Recipes of the planet Winter, including hot beer.

All so true.

Great short film about my cousin Katie Sanderson @kjsfoodprojects.

More tech madness - thanks, @katyusha13!

"Instead of teaching ourselves to cook, we’re teaching a machine to cook. And while that might make a product more valuable in the long term for a greater number of users, it’s inherently less valuable to us as individuals"

Long but convincing.

This is important. #fb

Do they make a difference?

Hee! Also, yuck.

How sauces shifted.

"Serve with mashed potato, if you serve it at all."

Only if you want to taste it.

Yum (possibly).

This is funnier than I expected.

...if in London, that is.

Georgian cuisine is the best I've ever tasted.

I was vaguely wondering what had happened to them.

Two pork recipes

Doctor Who recipes. Really. (And I do have a copy of Gary Downie's magnum opus on my shelves as well.)

Serves 2 to 12.

Recipes