[under or overrated ingredients]

Anyone tried bee pollen? Is it any good? what's it like? It seems to be cropping up all over the place, dusting this and that.

I'm personally underwhelmed by polenta, it's great for stopping your pizza dough from sticking and helping make crisp pastry but glad it seems to have gone out of fashion in restaurants as it seemed at one point every meal came with a chargrilled slice of yellow plastic.

R

[Dare to eat fast food]

If you're going to go to BK or McD type places then I reckon you could do far worse than subway but a lot of the best places are your local burger joints or kebab shops. If you're ever in the Cheltenham area (and judging by the number of posts about Le Champignon Sauvage I see a lot of people on this forum are), I'd head to Burger Star where the burgers are great and everything the chains should be.

R