Debbie does Dining

Le Whif: Breathable chocolate and coffee

Seven eggs: now with added ostrich

We all know what eggs taste like. But is there any appreciable difference between seven different birds' eggs? Well - yes. And no.

Debbie does Dammit Let's Eat!

This week, Debbie has very excitingly been guesting on one of her favourite podcasts, Dammit Let's Eat, with lovely foodies Chris, Peter and Chuti. Thanks for having me, mes amis Americains!

On the show, we discuss service, I explain what brown sauce is, and Chris has been foraging for mushrooms.

By the way, if anyone can tell me in all sincerity that I don't sound like that in real life, they get a free pie.

Marmite cupcakes. Wha'? Yes indeed - Marmite cupcakes.

Marmite, as explored here and here, is in the throes of a bid for power. The coordinated putsch attempt on our advertising space is nothing short of overwhelming, and the marmarketing has gone into hyperactive overdrive with a spoof election battle between the Love and Hate factions.

A waffly good idea: Bompas & Parr's Parliamentary Waffle House

It was my employer who remarked to me, with a comment as unkind as it is accurate: “Typical. You can only understand the election in terms of food.” For me, and people like me, there is now a way to combine voting with bloating, and get us some tasty democratic desserts.

The best in the world? Shooters sandwich

The Guardian has recently been parasitizing working hours from offices across the land by initiating a discussion about the best sandwich in the world. Suggestions ranged from the pretentious (Toulouse sausage with Dijonnaise and butterhead lettuce on home-made 50/50 white/wholemeal with poppy, sunflower and linseeds) to the frankly obscene (prawn cocktail crisps and salad cream). Some people even went for my favourite, the hot lampredotto (tripe) rolls sold from stalls in Florence.

The columnist Tim Hayward’s own suggestion - and the excuse for the article - was shooters sandwich. Less a sandwich, more a picnic in a loaf, it looked so bloody delicious I had to give it a go.

Marmite XO

What looks like Marmite, smells like Marmite and tastes like Marmite? 

Taste No 5 Umami paste

Laura Santtini's Easy Tasty Magic is a specialist ingredient range for the boutique generation. If you had doubts about her fashion-meets-food intentions, note that I have only seen her stuff in two shops: Selfridges, London and Selfridges, Birmingham.

Cream teas: A Treatise

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the cream tea, an afternoon mini-meal originating from and popular in Devon and Cornwall, is one of the most categorically perfect food combinations ever to have graced the dining tables of this land. But how, so to say, to optimise this very perfection?

The new model army: British Army Multi-Climate ration packs

I am an armchair squaddie. Sitting here, at this very desk, I have eaten US, British and Australian army rations. Sadly I do none of the exercise such conspicuous calorie consumption requires, but then again, I also avoid crawling through mud and institutionalised abuse. Swings and roundabouts.