Archive | July, 2009
Paolo Nutini Sunny Side Up

Listening to: Paolo Nutini, Sunny Side Up

A review of Paolo Nutini’s Sunny Side Up (2008) I’ll say it right up front: I think this is a great record. A great record that got a bum rap. It’s not that the critics didn’t (at least more or less) grasp what this is about, but few cared enough to focus on how fabulous [...]

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The magic of vegetable stock cubes

I can trace my recent improvements on the vegetarian cooking front to one insight in particular (thanks to the stir fry section in Heidi Swanson‘s book, credited/linked below): that almost every stove-top vegetarian dish is vastly enhanced with vegetable stock cubes. Stock cubes are magical, easy-to-apply, highly compressed morsels of savoury goodness. They can add [...]

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