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By the 1920s, commercially distributed frozen food had been around for about 60 years, initially in Australia. Perhaps more so in the UK than the USA. Meat was exported from Australia to the UK in 1868. Frozen chickens were imported by the UK from Russia starting in 1885. It wasn't until Birdeye developed flash freezing in 1929, that it really took off en masse. Of course, frozen food had been around since neolithic times.

I don't suppose reusable shopping lists were mainstream in the 1920s either.

She doesn't currently have a Michelin star. The previous restaurant, Pidgin where she was involved did. It no longer does.

A reusable shopping list from the 1920s.

Yes. Her restaurant Mei Mei is in London's food destination Borough Market. The rather sparse website is here.

I think the main issue here is more than just stealing a recipe. She also stole personal details of someone else's life. That is despicable.

I hate flash! In fact, my main camera doesn't even have flash. I would add that just sometimes reflections aren't bad!

Yes. That was my point. It also depends how black the black really is. It is lack of reflectivity that defines blackness, after all.

Doesn't that depend on the material? Are they all reflective? Before I bought the background board above, I regularly used a white melamine tray without refection problems. I would have thought black boards less reflective.

In high school we distilled some sort of moonshine in chemistry class, although we called it poitin (pronounced 'potcheen'), the Irish name. Funnily enough, the teacher's name was Mr. Still!

I have something similar, but are sold speifically as photo backgrounds. As you can see it is double sided - black and white. They come in various plain colour combinations but also patterned. This one is the equivalent of $8.50 USD.

Having used such software in a university environment, I can say it's not 100% reliable. Nowhere near. They only work if the original is in their database. Far from everything is in any of them.

Here's my latest cookery book. All my own work.

Here is a great resource of information on the varous truffles (the fungi) of the world from TasteAtlas. Lots of truffle porn, too. Click on the pictrure.

Full story. If true, and from the quoted examples there are appears to be a strong case, she must be crazy to think she would get away with it.

This is what I call a couldn't face the struggle to go shopping with one hand and a crippled leg meal. My friend J who has been helping me was unavailable. So it's a freezer and leftover show. Chicken liver fried rice with egg, garlic, ginger, chili, hothouse chives, Shaoxing wine and leftover rice from yesterday (deliberately cooked to have for today). It was OK.

Not the easiest thing I've ever done, but I got there! Being stubborn sometime pays off!

A second one-hand dinner. It may look more involved but the butcher did 99% of the cutting. Sichuan style pork ribs with garlic, ginger, chilli, fresh green Sichuan peppercorns, hothouse chives, coriander leaf, soy sauce and doubanjiang. The ribs were slow stewed for about 45 minutes before being stir fried with the listed ingredients. Served with rice and stir fried water spinach.

The Lord Sandwich story is probably mythical, though. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich certainly existed, but the only evidence was supplied a man named Grosley who came up with the attribution, claiming in 1770 to have witnessed Montagu ordering a dish of beef between two slices of bread in London during a 24 hour card game session. Unfortunately for the tale, Grosely didn't arrive in London until 1765, but the word was in use earlier than his arrival or his publication of the tale. Also if such an event even happened, Grosely was unlikely to have been there. The bread sandwich is far more likely to have been named after the town in Kent, England and was used as a descriptor for many things originating there, strretching back to the 15th century. Food served on bread goes back even further.

Debrett's is a style guide for the brainless inbred aristocracy. Of course we bite bread. How the f*** else can anyone consume it? It has been online for years. Also, popular with idiots who don't realise Downton Abbey was fictional.

Yes, but paper woks don't work so well!

Now, I'm just wondering who is going to do the washing up!

Yeah, but he still cooks it with the skewers in. I very much doubt that even if he pulled them out it would make much difference, but if the skewers are still place, there are no holes! Just meat with bits of wood in it.

Yeah! I thought that was strange, but not the only strange thing.