The food pages are rife with promises of perfection. The guardian.co.uk tells us how to make the perfect pâté and the perfect mayonnaise while posting the perfect hummus debate. The telegraph.co.uk headlines recipes for the perfect sponge and the perfect roast lamb cake. And just today, latimes.com revealed how to grill the perfect steak. 

Early this morning, Gwilym Davies was about to board a flight home from Malta to London when he received a urgent call from Tim Styles of the coffee shop Penny University. Penny U was a man down for the day and Styles wanted to know if Davies, the 2009 World Barista Champion, could fly in as [...]

If Harry Lime, the villain from Carol Reed‘s 1949 British film noir The Third Man, were a food obsessive, as was Orson Welles, the actor who portrayed and embellished the Graham Greene creation, than one of the most famous lines in cinema history might have read somewhat differently: LIME:  In Italy for 30 years under the [...]

The famous last line of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, winner of the 1961 Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Screenplay, punctuates a game of gin rummy between Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) and C. C. “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon): BUD I love you, Miss Kubelik. FRAN (cutting a card) Seven — (looking at Bud’s card) — [...]

youngandfoodish: @NancyRomm Hate when u try an exotic dish for 1st time & it’s wrongly prepared. Can’t be sure if u dislike dish or only that version of it. NancyRomm: @youngandfoodish I once had a boyfriend like that. It was the guy.