I Never Gave a Shit About Your Poxy Fucking Diet

May 17, 2019

I have been a little off the grid recently, for which I apologise. Whatever. Guess you are too busy shilling for Big Food to be writing a free blog, just so more famous food writers can copy and paste it into national newspapers.  There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, I am writing a new book, the third in the Angry Chef series. Yay! Go us. Even if those Guardian food columnist types think we’re evil corporate puppets, someone’s still paying us to write books. We must be part of an evil

Dirt

Apr 20, 2019

The earliest fossils on earth date back nearly four billion years. Quite a lot has happened since then. If we could travel back to the time when these now fossilised structures were being formed, then we would quickly die. Back then, there was no oxygen in the atmosphere for us to breath. It took the action of cyanobacteria to change that, somehow conjuring life out of water, carbon dioxide and sunlight, expelling unwanted oxygen as a by-product. Our very existence depends upon our ability to

Time's Up

Mar 02, 2019

Apart from ‘why are you so angry?’ the question I am most often asked in interviews is why, as a chef with absolutely no writing experience, I randomly started a blog in my mid-forties. Although the real answer is almost certainly ‘mid-life crisis’, the story I most often relate is the one that I opened my first book with.  For those that haven’t read the book… What? You mean that there are readers who have never bothered to buy one of the excellent value Angry Chef books (link, link). Tight

Daily Bread

Feb 15, 2019

'The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.'  Norman Borlaug Bread The economist and writer Paul Seabrook tells a story that shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall, when former communist bloc countries were attempting to move towards a free-market economy, he had a meeting with an official charged with controlling the production of bread in St Petersburg. Moving suddenly from a centrally planned economy to a free market one was perhaps the most