It seems there’s a little row going on over the McDonald’s McItaly burger mainly due to its endorsement from the Italian agriculture minister. The food critics are not particularly happy due to the affront to their national food traditions.

There’s a video here.

You know my thoughts? The whole world should be up in arms. McItaly? McItaly? McItaly. That is a rubbish name for a burger. Seriously. I would not be able to hold my head up with pride and order a chuffing McItaly.

It was some time ago now that my chum Henry introduced me to Operation 365. His was alcohol related, mine gluten. I tried once and failed. However, after an amount of success in 2008, I declared 2009 to be gluten-free year. Operation 365 got underway.

Well, I checked the calendar and here we are on day 309. It’s looking good. It’s the final furlong. A little error (accidental) on day 18 seems so far away, as does the worse error (even more accidental due to mislabelling by an evil coffee chain) on day 140. In that time I have found really good GF bread, honed my pastry and pie-making skills to giddy heights of success, and more to the point stuck to it!

If I’m ever beating myself up over not going through with a plan, I should remember this one. It would be daft to go back on it at the end of the year, too, so it might have to become Operation Infinity.

An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown.

Woohoo! What great news!

Full story at BBC News

Although, I’m not sure the caption “The yellow spice gives curries their bright colour” is accurate. It’s more likely that some carcinogenic artificial food colouring does that job. Everyone knows that a proper curry may taste divine, but should look like a bowl of brown gack!