I am currently awaiting some hot buttered toast, which will be pretty much the only thing I’ve eaten today. Last night, Richard and I had a degustation menu at a beautiful restaurant in the National Museum, before seeing an excellent play. I returned home to puke all night. This is my third bout of food [...]

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I had Sonia, Mel, Nathan and Anthony over for breakfast last weekend, and while making toast in the griller, I managed to set my oven mitt on fire:

Toasted.
It seems to have been made of the most highly flammable materials imaginable. It really went up in flames, and required dramatic beating against the footpath to be [...]

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When I was in the United States in 2004 I was disgusted with the state of their bread. It was white and thick and sugary as hell. They sweeten their bread here in Canada too, so when we got here I was determined to not fall into the trap of thinking sweetened bread [...]

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