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It’s National Banana Bread Day. Yup, You Read Me Right.

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It’s National Banana Bread Day. Yup, You Read Me Right.

Recipes for Optimising This Historic Day Are As Follows.  It’s another fortuitous Friday, my friends! And this one is special. Arguably, the national sweet treat of our country is banana bread. Who of us hasn’t enjoyed a tasty morsel of B-bread? Either made with love by someone dear to us or from a local corner cafe? We’ll speculate less than 1%.  But ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, first of all, we need to be transparent. Banana Bread was an American invention! During the 1930s, the Depression hit the US in a big way. Money for food had to be...

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Tablescaping: Notes on a Concept Mash-Up (Let’s Make It Christmas)

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Tablescaping: Notes on a Concept Mash-Up (Let’s Make It Christmas)

Like ‘Manscaping’ but with tables. And Mariah Carey. We have the goods. Intrigued? Read on.   Gentlepeople, lend me your eyeballs. Don’t worry, I’ll give them back. But for now, it’s time to unpack the Ye Olde practice of setting the table. And when I say ‘Ye Olde’, I mean it. Older than your Grannie’s Grannie. The Ancient Romans and Greeks, to be precise. They were the first to document the enactment of making tables look lovely. They practised it to mark special occasions and showcase opulence by using “plenty of hand-painted pottery, embossed silver and even engraved glass” (Thanks for...

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