The Modern Chef's Guide to Being Angry

Nov 26, 2018

As I am sure I have mentioned a few times recently, compared to when I started this blog, there is far more to be angry about these days.  Yay!! Great for business.  True, but bad for blood pressure. Perhaps the greatest source of simmering rage is the rank hypocrisy running through modern politics. Surely you mean kale. Remember this is a food blog. Stay in your lane chef. Don’t worry, I will get things back round to food. Eventually. I think we can all agree that currently, the world’s

Not Sitting Well

Nov 03, 2018

I realise that I haven’t written on here for a while. Yeah, loser. Think you’re too important to be writing blog posts now. Forgetting about the real fans. What, do you mean the people who can’t be arsed to buy my great value book and just want to read the never-monetised-advertising-and-paid-content-free-despite-being-really-popular, Angry Chef Blog where I talk to a voice in my head and swear a lot? Yeah, that. Or something. You’d be nothing without them. Or me. You’d be nothing if I

Meat is.....

Sep 23, 2018

I never thought I would write one book, let alone two. But somehow I found my passion, and developed a way with words that some people enjoy. Only some people. There are quite a few others who aren’t so keen. Well, lots of people seem to like us. We have even won an award.  Yay. From Men’s Health, which I don’t think anyone expected. Hope we don’t have to do a cover shoot. That would be embarrassing. For them and us. I don’t think we meet their usual standards. It’s a bit weird that one of

Heart of the Problem

Aug 25, 2018

Here is a crazy thought, especially from someone who writes about food and health for a (partial) living. Maybe your diet is not that important after all.  For many years, researchers have been desperately searching for dietary determinants of health within the populations of developed countries. They spend countless hours poring over swathes of data, picking apart minute differences in the macronutrient breakdown of people’s diets. Detailed epidemiological studies are conducted to investigate