No lack of crimp hre! GBBO 2020 thread 2

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Time for a new thread

I thought Dave's looked a bit rubbish, was slightly baffled by the high praise it got
He and Laura are my least faves though, so maybe I'm just biased.
Hermine for the win!

Re Prue being 80, I listened to a podcast she appeared on recently, I think it was table manners with Jessie Ware.
In it Prue said that she drinks 2 large glasses of wine every night and has done for the past 40 years since her children were small.
If anyone is looking for tips on how to look good at 80

Anyone except Dave to win. hermine or Laura or Peter, just not Dave.
I know it isn’t a popularity contest but I just can’t warm to him

@CaptainMyCaptain

I'm glad so many if you are interested in the Ruth Goodman book. DH to me:what are you reading? Me:it's a book about coal DH:

It really is interesting though.

I got the same look when I was reading the "History of Salt" - and that is really interesting, too.

@Mydogisagentleman

Anyone except Dave to win. hermine or Laura or Peter, just not Dave. I know it isn’t a popularity contest but I just can’t warm to him

I feel like that about Laura.

I really don't like her, though I know it's irrational.

I would like Hermine to win.

Hermine to win!

Now I'll have to find out about The History of Salt! It's fascinating the way it isn't just major political events that affects our lives but the small, little documented things, like coal and salt and probably other things like potatoes.

I get confused by the references to Dave on here. In our house he is called Andrew due to his doppelganger resemblance to DD2 ex-bf and I forget that nobody but us calls him Andrew!

There hasn't been a patisserie week, has there? I remember Hermine saying French patisserie was her favourite/best area.
Wonder if they'll get to make something patisserie-ish in the semi-final.

Have any of you read Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life? I'm hoping the coal book will be similar. I can't recall many details, but I remember it being fascinating and covering so many things we take for granted such as that staircases had to be invented and how having them then changed how life was lived. Also why, of all herbs and spices, is is salt and pepper which are ubiquitous? (It's was the previous comments on salt which reminded me of this)

@CaptainMyCaptain

Hermine to win!

Now I'll have to find out about The History of Salt! It's fascinating the way it isn't just major political events that affects our lives but the small, little documented things, like coal and salt and probably other things like potatoes.

It is Captain - I can also recommend "6,000 Years of Bread" and how the discovery of how to make bread completely transformed societies - politically, economically, religiously.

It is one of the most engrossing books I've ever read.

@MaggieFS

Have any of you read Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life? I'm hoping the coal book will be similar. I can't recall many details, but I remember it being fascinating and covering so many things we take for granted such as that staircases had to be invented and how having them then changed how life was lived. Also why, of all herbs and spices, is is salt and pepper which are ubiquitous? (It's was the previous comments on salt which reminded me of this)

I haven', Maggie - but it's one I have in my "to read" pile, so I may push it to the top.

I'm reading "A Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval History" at the moment (and The Singapore Grip - I usually have a couple on the go. Co-incidentaly, The Singapore Grip has just gone on the telly but I don't want to watch it till I've read it IYSWIM)

@dementedma

I get confused by the references to Dave on here. In our house he is called Andrew due to his doppelganger resemblance to DD2 ex-bf and I forget that nobody but us calls him Andrew!

🤣 We call him Ian because he looks like and old friend’s husband!

I can’t cope with Laura’s resting bitch face. Hermine hasn’t had much air time, she seems quite boring. Peter for the win!

Love the Bryson book, Maggie.. My library has the Ruth Goodman book too.

I'd be okay with Hermine or Peter winning. I'd feel they were robbed if either of the other two did. I think Laura will be the one who doesn't make the final.

Not a baking or cooking theme, but for an odd but enjoyable book, I really recommend 'The Secret Life of Lobsters'. It's about, erm, well, lobsters - but don't let that put you off

@IntermittentParps

There hasn't been a patisserie week, has there? I remember Hermine saying French patisserie was her favourite/best area. Wonder if they'll get to make something patisserie-ish in the semi-final.

It's patisserie week next week.

Captain, yay!

Peter perfect the clean-scrubbed prefect for the win according to my DH.

But I want Hermine to win, as I find Peter a bit too earnest and over-positive.

@SchadenfreudePersonified there are two books about salt on Amazon Kindle - Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and The History of Salt by Mark Pepper (really?). Which is the one you recommend?

@dementedma he is "Matt" in our house! Not Dave either!

[quote CaptainMyCaptain]@SchadenfreudePersonified there are two books about salt on Amazon Kindle - Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and The History of Salt by Mark Pepper (really?). Which is the one you recommend?[/quote]
The Kurlansky one is the one I have.

But the author alone temps me to get the other, too.

(It takes me back to when I was a student, and read a psychology paper by a pair of researchers called Duck and Pond; there was also a Dogge and Kennel IIRC)

The History of Salt by Mark Pepper

LOVE IT.

Also at Duck and Pond and Dogge and Kennel

Thank you.

Trust me if I didn't laugh about the untold hours my husband slavishly devotes to driving an imaginary tank around imaginary battlefields, blowing up other imaginary tanks, I might well weep @SchadenfreudePersonified!

Klaxon! Extra Slice is on at 8 p.m. tonight and the wonderful Kathy Burke is in the studio. I cannot wait!! 😀

I've never heard of pond pudding but am fascinatined by it! We love lemon here. I'm tempted to try it. With veggie suet so DS1 can eat it.