The news that scientists have recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light has been greeted with astonishment. I’m no doubt missing out a million links in the scientific chain here, but in its simplest form it shoots craters into Albert Einstein’s sacred principle that nothing travels faster than light. It might be […]
Month: November 2011
Smoked Salmon and Pentimenti
The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at London’s National Gallery has only just opened, but it’s already sold out. Not bad, considering that fewer than twenty of his paintings survive. I was captivated to hear that the work newly attributed to Leonardo, Salvator Mundi, was only firmly established as being his by its ‘pentimenti’. Loosely translated, pentimenti are ‘marks […]
Review: Tasting India by Christine Manfield
Tasting India by Christine Manfield Published by Conran Octopus, November 2011, £40.00 Photography by Anson Smart Combatants in the fight over e-cookery books versus printed ones have new ammunition. Or should that be heavy artillery. If you believe paper books take up too much room, you’ll no doubt point accusingly at Christine Manfield’s new book, […]
Hot Cold Wasabi Ice Cream for Anne of Green Gables
The wonderment with which Anne of Green Gables imagines what ice cream might taste like has always made me feel slightly guilty…. I don’t feel that I could endure the disappointment if anything happened to prevent me from getting to the picnic. I suppose I’d live through it, but I’m certain it would be a […]