Chewing gum is one of the wonders of modern food science, so you’d expect gum to be “natural” in the same way you’d expect a Ferrari to be fuel efficient: it could happen, but it’s not by design. With all […]
Author: Iain Ilich
Food Fight: Cooked vs. Instant Chocolate Pudding
When I was a kid, cooked chocolate pudding was the norm. The process of cooking then cooling was all we knew, with dibs being called over who got – or avoided – the pudding skin that formed on the top […]
Kitchen Gear: Fancy lemon zester
I’m serious about zesting. As someone who loves pure lemony flavour, I occasionally work with recipes that require lemon zest – my famous lemon blueberry muffins, say, as well as my family’s secret orehnjaca recipe*. Of course, most people would […]
Review: E.D. Smith Lemon Spread
You know it. I know it. The best part of a lemon meringue pie is the lemon filling, not the meringue. The fluffy whipped egg whites are all dazzle, a distraction to draw attention away from the real action, which […]
Review: Kerstin’s Lemon Dream Chocophilia bar
White chocolate is a polarizing foodstuff. Some call it a pretender to the chocolate name, something quite unlike either milk or dark chocolate and thus undeserving of being lumped in with “real” chocolate. Others, me included, see it as a […]
Review: McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes
Unless you’ve spent the past month in solitary confinement in a North Korean prison, watching the same two pirated I Love Lucy DVDs over and over again on a black and white T.V. you paid for with a kidney, you’re […]
Review: Sweet Onion Kettle Chips
If the Maui onions used to flavour Maui-style potato chips like riding the waves and hanging out on the beach, what about sweet onions? Do they bake scones for elderly veterans? Do they hold the elevator door for you as […]
Review: Savi Seed
One bite of Savi Seed and you’ll appreciate Mary Poppins’ view that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Though in this case, more than a spoonful is needed to distract from the awful taste of this latest […]
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