Jingle Foodies: A Quiz on the Foods of the Season

TimesOnline has posted a food quiz quite ornamental to ascertain whether your foodie knowledge is all shining and bright.
The Christmas Food Quiz includes some good questions:
5. Who invented the notion of a frothing soup in the manner of a cappuccino?
a Alain Chapel
b Gordon Ramsay
c Ferran Adria
6. Which chef created a Xmas menu last year where [...]

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Fighting the Ballontine (or ‘The Meaty Nightmare’)

I can not decide what to serve on Christmas.
This is not unusual – I can never decide what to serve on Christmas.
There are reasons for that (as there are reasons for most things). (Whether those reasons are reasonable or not is yet another question but let’s set that aside for the moment).
Ballontines keep popping into [...]

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It’s got to be said (but not too loudly please): Clam Dip.

Clam dip springs eternal.
This is a wonderful thing – for some people.
There was always a bowl of clam dip placed out on the sideboard with Fritos, celery, and carrot sticks at  Christmas dinner when I was a child. It was an awesome thing somehow, this clam dip. It was all-powerful. It stood for something  – [...]

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