I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
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Ready, steady, cook ... Knotweed!
ANTHEA Gerrie, writing in The Independent on 9 June 2010, featured chef Dino Paviedis at Terre á Terre restaurant in Brighton preparing a Knotweed and Wild Garlic Soufflé.
Olivia Reid, of the restaurant, explained that an
environmental consultancy got in touch to see whether they fancied cooking with knotweed.
She describes the taste as “lemony and zesty”, others as having a fresh rhubarb taste with the texture of asparagus.
“It produces a wonderful liquor when braised and works really well in a compote made with raspberries and ginger - a very versatile weed.” Best of all, she says, is the knotweed and shallot jelly served with Sussex slipcote cheese.
However, knotweed will never
make it permanently onto the menu of any restaurant, as it is illegal to grow, harvest and dispose of, so supply would be a problem for a catering kitchen ... and demand, probably!
Oh well, back to those good old hedgerow staples of nettles, elderflowers and blackberries.
The ‘Blue’ Lagoon? around 4.00am.
SEATON Carew Golf Club, in Hartlepool, has distanced itself from stories that a production crew was caught shooting an ‘adult’ film on their course.
They admit a film crew was found in the early hours of the morning, but say there is “nothing to support the rumours” that it was a blue movie.
Head greenkeeper, Tony Cartwright, found the film crew in the early hours of Saturday, June 26, during his round of morning inspections. He spotted bright lights on the 10th green, known as the Lagoon hole, and went over to investigate.
He discovered a group of half a dozen people, ranging in age from 35 to mid 50s, filming on the green at
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Tony explained: “I was doing my early morning checks of the greens when I spotted the bright lights. There was a man dressed in golf clothes on the green, alongside another man wearing ordinary clothes and a pair of bright orange boots. It looked like they had been there for around an hour, and there was a group of people sitting on a nearby wall, too.”
“Everybody was fully clothed, but it was still quite a strange thing to come across, I have never seen anything like it in my time.”
The film crew were politely asked to leave, says Tony. “I explained that it was private land and asked them to leave, and they packed up and left shortly after in a large van.”
Art for art’s sake ...
WHEN Boughton Loam received an order for ‘2kg of white bunker sand’ you could have excused Sales
Coordinator, Richard Chinn, for checking the calendar to make sure that it was not 1st April, and then consigning the email to ‘deleted’ items.
However, on further inspection, it turns out that this ‘little’ order was rather high profile. It came from a London framers who were preparing an exhibition of work by artist Jonathan Yeo, to be shown at a top venue in Beverley Hills, California, organised by Lazarides.
The sand was to be used for the internal frame of one of the works featuring Tiger Woods, and ‘had to be right’. The main frame was astro turf!
The order was placed in sealed plastic bags and sent off in a jiffy bag, with the framers only charged for
postage. Sadly, for Richard, his request for two complimentary first class tickets to LA was refused, but Boughton did get a mention in the exhibition catalogue, which was entitled ‘Porn in the USA’. And, if you want to know why, check out
www.lazinc.com, or get out your magnifying glass!
... funny for God’s sake!
PERHAPS not quite so high profile, except in PC Towers of course, a recent trip to Slovakia for the Turf Education conference, where our esteemed Managing Director, Dave Saltman, was speaking, resulted in this masterpiece.
The artist, who has to remain nameless because, quite honestly, we can’t spell it, was producing caricatures of some of the dignitaries at the conference.
This one has found pride of place in Dave’s new office, although our suggestion of framing it with a bit of Molineux turf and discarded football studs was not received too well!
For you information, the Oxford English Dictionary describes ‘caricature’ as: a
picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things - and who are we to argue!
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