Cooking certain things very slowly makes them taste very good indeed.A heavy cast iron pot is just the trick.
Our Le Creuset, called Nigel, regularly dishes up such delicacies as melt-in-the-mouth roast lamb and stoved potatoes.
Right now I’m working with a client to fine-tune their yellow/orange-coloured logo. We’ve got something we’re happy with on screen, but achieving it on print is quite a bit trickier.
Most of the usual tricks- matching to swatches, speccing a Pantone ink, etc work well for volume printing but are an unlikely prospect with a small local printer.
Also, the yellow/orange shade is a tough one to get right in print.We’ll see which of my range of options work out- we may have to be realistic and choose a shade which is more ‘flexible’.
Surprising that one of the most minimalist ways of brewing coffee is also one of the best! Note that Bentz was repsonsible for the idea of the paper filter, not necessarily the plastic cone.
(Via About.com inventors)
Best taste, and very easy to clean!
A simple 2mm clutch pencil first produced in 1929 and altered very little since. Solidly made from aluminium, with a clever repointer built into the end cap. Here’s an image of a very early version for comparison:
Writing and sketching
One of my family will be getting this exciting voucher for Christmas- but who?
I’ve recently taken on production of our college magazine, Lampanelle. I’ve come up with a new mark for it,here’s a sneak preview:
Off to Uxbridge for a new water pump for the boat. Not much sight-seeing to be had there, except for the station:
Good advice from a Freelance newsletter I get each week
