May 8, 2012
In a private room at Quilon, the Michelin-starred restaurant in London, guests tried seven courses of delicately spiced southwest Indian food with seven different, freshly polished spoons: copper, gold, silver, tin, zinc, chrome and stainless steel.
Baked black cod with zinc was as unpleasant as a fingernail scraped down a blackboard, and grapefruit with copper was lip-puckeringly nasty. But both metals struck a lovely, wild chord with a mango relish, their loud, metallic tastes somehow harmonised by its sweet-sour flavour. (“With sour foods, like mango and tamarind, you really are tasting the metal,” says Laughlin, “because the acid strips off a little of the surface.”) Tin turned out to be a popular match for pistachio curry. And Laughlin sang the praises of gold as a spoon for sweet things: “Gold has a smooth, almost creamy quality, and a quality of absence – because it doesn’t taste metallic.”
“The Sensoaesthetic Properties of Metals“
May 3, 2012
Tuna Casserole
Ingredients: 1 large casserole dish
Place the casserole dish in a cold oven. Place a chair facing the oven and sit in it forever. Think about how hungry you are. When night falls, do not turn on the light.
More at… Sartre’s Cookbook
Having a very bad week. Time to dig out No Exit. If the full-blown misery of a French existentialist can’t make me feel better about my life, nothing can.
August 4, 2010
…you can even draw with them. WANT!
July 8, 2010
The Threadcakes competition has begun, and as usual there are already some amazing entries. If you’ve got an hour or two to kill, go check it out!
April 29, 2010
I have just discovered The Drunken Moogle, a website devoted entirely to drinking and videogames. I thoroughly approve, as these are two of my favorite things, and together they’re better than brown paper boxes tied up with string!
The Triforce
1/3 Goldschlager
1/3 Banana Liquer
1/3 Sugar Cane Rum
Well, I know what I’ll be serving at our next geek gamer party.
…BRB Kahlua Mocha, Johnny Green, splash of buttercream coffee creamer, top w/ half n half and milk. IDK what you’d call it but hot damn it’s good. I feel drunk just thinking about it. Oh, wait. I bet it’d be awesome with some cold coffee, over ice. I’d try it now, but that would require making coffee, and it IS 4AM.
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