• Every so often, Ideas In Food come up with a really cracking concept. Here’s their latest one - curing meat and fish using roasted coffee beans . I HAVE to try this.

• Fresh meat with a shelf-life of 3 months? 100% microbacterial destruction at room temperature? I may get around to writing an entire article on the implications of high pressure pasturisation , but for now, marvel at the concept!

• Do copper bowls actually help when whisking eggs? Yup! The copper helps the sulphur bonds tighten - and apparently is perfectly safe due to only being incorporated into the egg in tiny amounts. (Which makes sense - otherwise well-used copper bowls would end up with a hole in the bottom). Apparently a tiny pinch of a health-food copper supplement will do the same trick.

• Please do realise that when following suggestions from Kamikaze Cookery, you’re often following advice from this man:

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Photography by Erin Hardee, who has also done some rather wonderful lightbox food photography