Everyone has it rough right now. I still feel pretty lucky mind you. Covid-19 is sweeping the globe. We’re all on lockdown. Here? Me? We had a 5.7 quake a few weeks ago, about threw me out of bed. Crazy. That was followed by rigorous aftershocks. The same day the pound/dollar rate collapsed crashing my […]
Thought one How is David Chang so disconnected: “Is there a sustained move toward delivery and away from in-restaurant dining in that new world? Yes. Not to sound callous, but that’s it. I thought that shift was going to happen over the next 10, 15 years, and no one would have noticed because it would’ve happened […]
From the garden this morning. Spring doing its thing.
Watched The Platform on Netflix last night. I’m particular fond of movies that showcase our dystopian future – or some might joke – our ever increasing reality. It’s a pretty bleak movie, which I also rather enjoy time to time, like enjoying an overcast drizzly day. The concept is simple, the platform itself is a […]
As lockdown life continues, today’s nadir. Oh my god. We’re out of capers. I’d clasp my hands to my face in Edvard Munch homage if it wasn’t for the fact that’s a certain way to die now.
Let me preface all of this crystal ball gazing by saying I hope I am wrong, I hope I am as wrong as when we laughed at a colleague who said we should buy bitcoin. Bitcoin huh, it’ll never work. Bitcoin was around 50c at that time. So what do I know. Zip. I do […]
I have no logical reason to be as chipper as I seem to be. When my wife asked me this morning how I was doing, the answer was along the lines of…hmmm I feel pretty great, pretty excited, very happy. She jokingly suggested I might be a psychopath, in what are obviously tense times right […]
Once upon a time, long before I was a food writer, I was a keen blogger. Nothing of particular import mind you, just thoughts, essays and words as and when they felt the need to roll out into the digital ether. Better outside my brain than stuck rattling around in there like a pinball machine. […]