by Lucy James
Monday 12th March 2012, 20:18 BST
This week is the Last week, the final week of the eight weeks of Lent term, and the biblical significance has not been lost on me. Having failed to get an acquaintance from the Theology faculty to string a logical sentence together, I took recourse to the internet to find out the ‘biblical meaning’ of the number 8 in order to aid me in the Last minute creation of my Last blog. Apparently in Hebrew the number 8 has roots in the verb “to make...
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by Lucy James
Monday 5th March 2012, 20:47 BST
Having struggled through 2 years of a Cambridge arts degree, I’ve come to the realization that only two things in life are certain; death and the feeling of hunger at 4 p.m. Everyone dies. Everyone wants a snack in the grey limbo that hangs between lunch and dinner, the twilight of the day. Our English ancestors had it bang on when they invented afternoon tea in the 1840s and gorged themselves on crustless cucumber sandwiches and pastries in co...
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by Lucy James
Monday 27th February 2012, 11:05 BST
Now I’m no expert, but I don’t think you have to have a psychotherapeutic training to assert that picky eaters are stuck in their own virtual childhood characterized by an irrational fear and dislike of anything that isn’t a fish finger, tomato pasta or chocolate. I could go further to say that it must be an attempt on the part of their parents to keep them in the nest forever by creating this weird dependence on a staple of childish foods,...
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by Helena Pike
Saturday 25th February 2012, 18:33 BST
Before I begin, I would just like to add a preliminary postscript (not the traditional manner in which this is done, I realise) to apologise for the photographs used this week. Now, I am not by any means trying to insinuate that the photos usually put up on this blog are of any substantial calibre at all (in fact, they're pretty shoddy, but I just tend to make the worst ones really really little so hopefully you can't tell). I used to go abou...
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by Rose Hills
Tuesday 21st February 2012, 19:56 BST
I’m an enormous fan of any recipe that calls for a variety of any vegetables in your fridge rapidly approaching their best before dates and potatoes threatening to sprout at the back of your cupboard. The ingredients listed below can all be swapped for something else depending on the state of your fridge and how much you feel like experimenting - a favourite at home is caramelized onion with bacon with copious amounts of cheese melted on top. T...
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by Lucy James
Monday 20th February 2012, 10:37 BST
MasterChef is like a virus or a scarab beetle; it gets under your skin and eats your brain. As a programme which is, essentially, a blend of shows like River Cottage, Come Dine with Me and the X Factor, it combines the most basic primal instincts of the human race, the love of competition and food, which perhaps explains how it has earnt its 9pm mid-week slot on BBC 1. But at the same time as being great entertainment, MasterChef has to be one ...
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by Helena Pike
Friday 17th February 2012, 12:10 BST
I am starting to give up hope of ever being able to visit Indigo Coffee House, at least, not on a Sunday. Honestly, I know it's going for the cosy look, but this is getting ridiculous. I've made several attempts now to try and squeeze in - on consecutive Sundays, apparently an error - but, alas, it is to no avail. When we wandered up the other the day, the small front shop was so crowded with people, standing, sitting, squeezing into every corner...
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by Rose Hills
Thursday 16th February 2012, 18:09 BST
Brunch is the perfect meal – fact. What other meal could possibly justify the combination of fruit, enormous quantities of meat and stacks of waffles, pancakes and my all time favourite, French toast? To me, French toast is the epitome of comfort food: crisp on the outside, gooey in the middle and drowning in maple syrup. This recipe requires minimal effort and time making it perfect for whipping up on lazy mornings or for devouring as a post-l...
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by Lucy James
Monday 13th February 2012, 17:27 BST
As far as simple pleasures go, I defy anyone to think of anything simpler than tea and toast. Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and the new generation of organic crusaders have not been kind to the idea of simple pleasures. Going to your local Sainsbury’s has increasingly become a minefield of choice especially in the realm of the simplest of commodities, bread and tea. There were days when a cut white loaf and a box of PG Tips were probably the o...
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by Helena Pike
Wednesday 8th February 2012, 20:32 BST
It must be said that Trockel, Ulmann and Freunde (or the 'German cafe' as I like to more manageably, if slightly inappropriately call it) doesn't have to do much to impress, given last week's less than exception excursion to Auntie's. That said, Fitzbillies position atop the podium of Cambridge's coffee scene remains intact and unshaken. Neither does it appear that this slightly s... Continue Reading
