Category: David’s diatribes
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Things have been wild. I’ve had a cold, then my cyclical vomiting syndrome flared up (that was really nasty, I can tell you), and for the past couple of …
General
Honestly, I’ve no idea why people complain about foie gras. The geese and ducks bloody love being fed, they run up to to have the grain shoved down their …
Drivel
more fail, owned and pwned pics and videos
General
Researchers at Oxford, that home of high-quality science, have new data which supports what all right-thinking people would know anyway. Namely, vegetarians and vegans suffer from greater shrinkage of …
General
OK, this story comes from the Daily Mail, so cannot be relied upon, but if it is true then I am totally appalled. We are told that supermarkets will …
Beer
The National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) is proposing to introduce a two-thirds of a pint measure which would “increase the flexibility of the pub and brewing industries to …
General
I have railed against the danger of salad in the past: lettuce will give you cancer. Obviously lettuce is to be avoided wherever possible, but there are ways to …
Australia
I was in Lancashire last weekend for a wedding to two lovely friends of mine. We paid a visit to the amusingly named town of Clitheroe to go to …
Burgundy
Picking the best bottle I own is more problematic than deciding that Mambourg from Deiss is horrible; what constitutes the best? Heroic formats can be compelling. I have a …
Alsace
In the early nineties Jean-Michel Deiss was making spell-binding, exciting, thrilling Riesling; I snapped up all I could find and afford. Then, for some presumably psychotic reason, he decided …
