There are things that I see or read and/or think that don’t really find a place on the rest of the blog or aren’t big enough to post about. So I’m dumping them here on a Friday morning.  If I don’t have anything that fits the above category, there won’t be a post. Sound good?

1) How the Aeron chair was designed.

2) Will Hutton makes the best argument for why privatisation of infrastructure isn’t working

3) Brilliant review of a terrible restaurant

4) The City of London Distillery (COLD) opened properly yesterday. Go and visit, or follow on twitter @COLDistillery or just be really happy about there being more good gin in world

5) This quote about Yotam Ottolenghi from The Kitchn:

‘Both chefs are passionate home cooks and in fact develop most of their recipes at home, with ingredients from the supermarket. Yotam explained it was very important to them that their cookbooks are accessible to people cooking at home, that they are not too fancy or chefy.’

I’ve heard such good things about Ottolenghi, and I have friends that adore Plenty and will run out to but the new book but where does he shop and have you seen his recipes in the Guardian on a Saturday? Minimum 10 ingredients last week and dried Iranian limes, this was a good week and maybe in a big city you could buy all the ingredients (hell I live in a big city, right next door to Southall and I struggle to find all the listed ingredients sometimes) I don’t buy it being for home cooks.  Sorry…