A weird one from my search-engine slush-pile “Nigel Slater gay?” Well, yes, he is. You’d have to have been living in a cave for the last decade or so not to know this – it’s been blindingly obvious in his writing, in the Observer more so than his books, and “revealed” in his autobiography, Toast. [...]
Archive for September 13th, 2009
Nigel Slater’s gay – who’da thunk it?
Posted in Nigel Slater, tagged Nigel Slater, Sexuality, Who's gay - who cares? on September 13, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Culturing yeast from beer sediment….
Posted in Creating your own yeast culture, Home bread-making, Home-made bread, tagged Breadmaking, Creating a yeast culture, food, Getting yeast from beer, Home bread-making by hand, Make your own bread on September 13, 2009 |
I wrote, some time back, that I was going to salvage the yeast sediment from bottle-conditioned beer, and grow it on, to make barm-leavened bread – about as back to basics as you can get, apart from by-guess-and-by-god sourdough. Then I wrote that the yeast sediment was so meagre it was barely there. Then, a [...]







