Length: < 1 min Looks like we may have managed to blag — for later this year — one of the last, early morning, visits to the fish auctions… …as the old Tsukiji market moves to a new location in early October and we’re… Read More »“Dance! Tsukiji Wonderland! Ha, ha, dance!”

Length: < 1 min Eating only plants? Or reducing the amount of meat you consume? That’s good. I’m all for it. Seriously. The very fine Richard H Turner is all in favour as well. But it’s not without a cost to other animals… Read more… Read More »Vegetarian doesn’t mean no blood…

Length: < 1 min HT @val_littlewood for reminding me of this piece. And apposite for the upcoming book.

Length: < 1 min HT @killianfox0 of @gannetmag for this set of statistics from the very wonderful, quirky and fun “The Gannet’s Gastronomic Miscellany” which, if you haven’t already rushed out and bought for yourself as a present, you should immediately beg, borrow, or steal (or have someone… Read More »This is more than a little worrying…

Length: < 1 min Recipe testing for the upcoming 2018 porcine recipe book. The lucky guinea pig trying it later is @vallittlewood. This one was suggested by a recipe I’d seen made by Richard H Turner. I think he’d approve. #bookproject #pigsoftheday #salutethepig #mangalitsa #tamworth… Read More »10 pigs, 10 recipes.

Length: < 1 min One of the better ways to celebrate the arrival of what looks like being a challenging year. Let’s work towards being kinder towards everyone. Apart from Trump, all the other Nazis and the Brexit fire-starters that is…

Length: < 1 min Norwegian apparently; having tried this as a kid, I know how hard it is to stay on (more than once ending up face down in faeces). All credit to her for holding on long enough for this photo to be… Read More »Ride a pig

Length: < 1 min Then the very least you can do is buy me this piece of cold steel as an early gift… It’s a Santoku blade, available from this rather handsome (and scarily talented) trio at Blenheim Forge in Hackney. There’s whole lifetimes… Read More »If you INSIST on celebrating Christmas…

Length: < 1 min Check all your razors and your guns We gonna be arrested when the wagon comes I wanna pig’s foot and a bottle of beer Send me cause I don’t care Blame me cause I don’t care Gimme a pig’s foot… Read More »Gimme A Pig’s Foot (And A Bottle of Beer)

Length: < 1 min via @RuthBourdain, an exhortation to the chef; one that brings tears of joy to my little heart, if employed correctly. And, without a doubt, the pinnacle, the very apex of said devotion, is the oft-mentioned Fergus Henderson, whose exquisite work is… Read More »Comfort me with offal?

Length: < 1 min It’s close to that particular time of the year when these lovely brassica family vegetables get rolled out across the land. There are those of you who — like the Marmite and liver haters — won’t touch them, thinking them… Read More »A shout out for the Brussel sprout

Length: 3 mins Science writer Veronique Greenwood once described bacon thus: “the mere smell of it can take you by the nose and lead you across the house to the kitchen” And she’s right of course. But why is she right and how… Read More »Bacon: the science of taste & smell

Length: < 1 min HT @val_littlewood for this image that gave me pause for a few seconds. It comes from the the Imperial War museum and is sub-titled, “Join or Start a Pig Club”. The home farmer shown looks so like my father — dead for… Read More »Keep a Pig

Length: < 1 min Pigs after all were held in great respect – as the signature animal for the Great Earth Goddess who controlled the winds — so no, instead one should only refer to them as ‘curly-tail’ or ‘turf-rooter’. Mentioning the banned word p̶i̶g̶… Read More »Don’t say the word p̶i̶g̶ on board a vessel

Length: 2 mins We’ve never been to Adelaide, but these four bronze pigs may just tilt the decision in its favour when looking at suitable places to grab some nose-bag whilst Down Under. There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of good places… Read More »Pigs at the mall

Length: 5 mins So, why am I writing about a humble pie you may ask? Answer: for any number of good reasons (foremost of which of course is: “it’s a PIE, stupid, what’s not to like?”) but really there are two main ones:… Read More »No fidget-ing at the back; or the Huntingdon (fitchett) Pie

Length: < 1 min Much as I despise this whole hysterical US-import, yet-another-excuse-to-sell-people-yet-more-cheap-uneeded-crap thing, I have to say that finding this picture of a prize-wining party-goer — all the way back in April 1894 in Covent Garden — dressed as a side of ham,… Read More »Halloween ham?

Length: < 1 min Captured by John Deakin, back in 1952, comes these two shots of Francis Bacon. They could have been taken today. Bacon then went onto produce his own work, two years later, that nightmarishly referenced these photos These three and this… Read More »Bacon on lamb