Simon Wroe's Blog, page 3
October 11, 2014
Homebrew clubs – making your own beer has never been so sociable
My piece in today’s Guardian on the rise of home-brew…
September 15, 2014
myfoodtalkstoomuch:
The ad guys call it “tone of voice”....
The ad guys call it “tone of voice”. Innocent smoothies presumably took “quirky”. So what are Frijj going for here? Hard to know for sure, but “stag party moron” seems about right.
September 12, 2014
Three great minds you didn’t know were in the food...
Three great minds you didn’t know were in the food business.
September 5, 2014
Literary Friction - 2nd September 2014
Radio interview on the parallels between cooking and writing, and why kitchens make good settings for novels.
September 1, 2014
BURGER KING, STFU
Congratulations to Burger King, winners of today’s “Awful bullshit” award. You have outdone yourselves.
We have crossed some sort of rubicon when burger chains start telling you that drinking two litres of coke is a statement of self-empowerment.
Isn’t packing supposed to be…
August 22, 2014
August 21, 2014
http://myfoodtalkstoomuch.tumblr.com/...
I’ve started an occasional blog about overly talkative food packaging at http://myfoodtalkstoomuch.tumblr.com
Any suggestions, please send ‘em in…
Food packaging has got awfully chatty of late. It likes to tell you how to eat, it wants to make little jokes and talk a yard of crap about nothing in particular. I’m not sure when it started, I don’t know how it will end (badly, I’m guessing), but I don’t want my food talking to me. This is a…
August 5, 2014
August 1, 2014
At the chopping board
Making the transition from chef to novelist (click on title for Bookanista link).
