Rufus Blooter

Tonights' family dinner will be Fondue Chinoise , featuring a broth from the turkey stock I made from our Thanksgiving bird. A fitting b...

I've got it. Four goose legs [or is that "geese legs", since more than one goose contributed legs to the endeavor?] done. Now ...

Two of my favorite and most cost-effective ways to make coffee: cafetiere (aka "french press") Italian stove-top maker The cafetie...

BBC1: a nifty Doctor Who special, a cute new Wallace & Gromit, and some East Enders. BBC2: replay of the infamous Florida-->New Orle...

Here we go, both Krugman and Freakonomics blogging about how bad London food is. Lazy. Let's agree upfront that there are many awful r...

Picked up my pair of geese from the butcher today. Christmas cooking close to commencing. And I'm even already looking forward to tradit...

I hate the year-in-review crap we're subjected to by lazy media this time of year. Maybe it seemed like less of waste of time when I was...

My rule of thumb: hot meat should be sliced thickly, cold meat thinly. Carving a roast in thick slices keeps it from cooling too quickly an...

There's a decent value-for-money Chinese restaurant in Dalston on Kingsland road called Shanghai . What's really special about the p...

At lunch at a slightly posh restaurant yesterday, I passed a gent wearing a shirt identical to mine. This inexplicably delighted both of us....

Surely this must be a joke: artisanal rapeseed oil ! There must be enough rubes out there to fall for this, I guess, someone stupid enough ...

As long as we're talking gifts for the kitchen.... A pleasure to read for anyone who enjoys cooking, but an especially good choice for a...