Tagged edinburgh pizza

  It’s best not to have a party trick, or you’ll have to do a dolphin impression wherever you go. Same with signature songs and dishes. Black Lace must have got to the point of Agadont and Mary...

    Notes on inaccurate use of face masks. The reason some people are wearing them underneath their noses must be so they can smell what’s cooking at all the newly reopened...

  I’m a shady type.   In the summer, there’s no wandering around to look for the perfect hot spot.   You’ll find me lurking behind the shed, dodging the rays as if I’m...

  My sister should have called her baby Zeppole.   While pregnant she got hooked on this venue’s cinnamon and sugar-powdered doughnuts. Anyway, my nephew isn’t named after an Italian...

The kids talk about YOLO (you only live once) and FOMO (fear of missing out). As a middle aged person, I’m more into POMO (pleasure of missing out). There’s something extremely satisfying about...

Glacier, XXX strong, and the fluff-covered Polos at the bottom of your bag. I love them all, so it should be easy, I thought, to find the new pizza chain Franco Manca. Just follow the toothpaste smell of...

I am getting on. My tastebuds are fading, my teeth crumbly and I have to squint to see the small print on menus. Constant reflux and cholesterol deposits in my retinas act as memento moris. With these jolly...

Fitness gear is the new casual diningwear. The combination of leggings, trainers and a singlet says I have earned the right to be here. Whatever I eat is fuel that I will be burning off later in HIIT,...

There have been many strange hangover cures. In the first century AD, physician Pliny the Elder suggested eating two raw owl eggs in wine. During the Middle Ages, it was uncooked eel, with the theory that...

I was never a nerd at school, apart from a brief period in P6 when I rocked a mullet, NHS aviators and never took off my ski jacket, even through the hot August of ‘85. That may have slotted me temporarily...