Thursday, March 30, 2006

Drinks, meringues, fifth cousins twice removed

Last night, Rob, Chris, Letitia, Paul and I had a very pleasant evening in one of London's finest public houses. Happily, I bumped into the lovely Guss from my old Big Band, and Tom, a friend of Nina's who is slightly evil and very clever. A discussion we all had about meringues led me to this article about meringues and vacuums. So, to those who doubted me, Heston Blumenthal thinks it's a good idea, so there. We also established that Tim Harwood, of Corby Glen, is my fifth cousin twice removed, as this chart establishes, though I concede that it would have been easier to answer the question 'Are you related to the other Harwoods in the village?' by saying 'Yes'.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Self investigation might be the only way to solve this one. As a research incentive I will offer a free pint to the first person to create a bottle shaped meringue in exchange for the rights to the technology patent. I suspect there by much money to be made in bespoke meringue shapes.

This time next year Rodders...