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I'm not setting the blogosphere on fire but this'll do just fine. That average to more that one post a week, which better than I've done in a couple years. Thanks <lj user="gillo" /> for sharing the link!

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Best GBBO Quote

Not a quote from the Great British Bake Off but a quote about it: "Noel Fielding comes across as the strangely heartwarming result of a thought experiment that asked 'What if A.A. Milne wrote The Vampire Lestat?'". That made me grin from ear to ear because I hadn't thought of it that way before but it sounds right. (It's from a tongue-in-cheek article by Brian Philips called "The Great British Baking Show is Broken. Here's a Five-Point Plan to Fix It." Apparently he doesn't like food that doesn't look like food and he really, really doesn't like Paul Hollywood. He does, however, like Noel Fielding (and everyone else).)

PS - I agree with him about cookies. Don't English people like moist, soft, or chewy cookies, nice thick ones? On GBBO, if the cookies aren't thin and crunchy, they tend to be judged badly. Here if we want thin, crunchy cookies we usually buy them from the store, in a box. Even at the store, if you buy them from the bakery, they're generally not crispy and crunchy. (I know that there are cookies that are meant to be crispy, like gingersnaps and speculaas and we make those too, but Paul Hollywood does seem to think that every kind of cookie should be crispy and crunchy. So I figure it's a cultural difference. I wonder if he judges differently on the American version to account for different preferences.)