From Lonely Planet's new book, How to Land a Jumbo Jet, a visual exploration of travel facts, figures and ephemera. Available now from Lonely Planet. Anywhere you travel around the world, you're likely to find a McDonald's waiting: With restaurants in 128 countries worldwide, they're hard to avoid.
The Great Honey Swindle
As if bees weren’t having a hard enough time of it lately, now there’s this: According to a report released last week by Food Safety News, the vast majority of store-bought honey sold in this country isn’t technically honey.
Finally a whiskey for horrible people
With the launch of their first liquor brand, an upstart company called Fabulous American Beverages (or FAB, if you’re feeling suicidal) is going where no other whiskey-maker I know of has purposefully gone before: Ladies Night at the Jersey Shore.
Making Pumpkin Bread (Recipe - Joe Pastry)
I should do more pumpkin recipes, they match so well with my overall color scheme. As with most tea breads, the only trick to this is avoiding over-beating. Otherwise it’s a snap.
Warming up to the Joys of Cask Ale
My wife is not one for cask ale. “It’s too warm,” she bemoans whenever I try to pass her a pint. “And where are all the bubbles?” I sigh, that deep sigh of a married man for whom this will be an ongoing issue till death do us part. “That’s how it’s supposed to be served,” I explain, once more running down the intricacies of cask-conditioned (or real) ales.
