Thought I’d share a picture of this fantastic edible crab cake. It was made by one of my fellow PhD students for another student’s birthday. I was really impressed by how accurately the crab anatomy had been constructed in all its cakey goodness. It was very tasty too, with chocolate fingers and marzipan wrapped up in icing [...]
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Edible Crab Cake
Posted in Food, tagged Food, Marine Biology on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Squirrel Cuisine
Posted in Animals, Food, Recipes, tagged Bunny Waffles, Food, Recipes on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I stuck a post up a couple of days ago on squirrel pies, the whole idea of which slightly disturbed me for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on. I reckon that part of my squeamishness is undoubtedly due to an ingrained food prejudice, so I decided to browse the web a bit to educate myself a bit [...]
Squirrel Pies
Posted in Animals, Food, tagged Food on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
An article from the guardian caught my eye today – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/29/grey-squirrel-hunter-pie-demand. I found the whole thing slightly disturbing. I know that grey squirrels are an introduced alien species and that they pose a real threat to the existence of the native red squirrels on the British Isles. Culling the greys is probably the only way of stopping them [...]