Makes about 1 litre Children love ice cream and if you get an ice-cream maker and make your own you can persuade them to help you. Maybe it's just my natural affinity with gadgetry, but I think it's an incredible machine, just for the convenience factor. I can get back to the workshop [where he invented the wind-up radio] and wait for the ping. Like many bachelors, I don't know in the morning what I'll want in the evening, so I'd be lost without a microwave. I even reuse the tubs for screws and bolts. It is possible, however, to cook these things from scratch. Here's how.Ingredients1/2tsp turmeric 1/2tbsp chilli powder 2tsp curry powder 1tbsp vegetable oil 1/2tsp mustard seeds 3 spring onions, sliced 2 green chillies, deseeded and sliced 1cm piece ginger, peeled grated 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2 chicken breasts or six thighs, cut into large pieces 1 can coconut milk Half a mango, thinly slicedHeat the oil in a large pan and add the mustard seeds, turmeric and chilli and curry powder. Not that an absence of science necessarily means better wine.
The reduction of sulphur, a return to wild yeasts and the use of new oak barrels can all cause problems in the cellar. Like the telling of a good joke, proper use of tehchnology in wine is not about the what but the how.Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year. I went to southern India once with the British Council, so it may have been there that I first fell for the food of that region. There's a Keralan restaurant near my studio in Eel Pie Island on the Thames, where they do a curry with mango As I've got a sweet tooth, I love it.
I can't say I do an awful lot of cooking, although having said that, I do think the microwave oven is a fantastic invention. Meanwhile, one advance I strongly favour is screwcaps instead of corks to keep wine fresh.Almost every winery worth its salt today is constructed to optimise innovation and function, and to reduce the very real dangers of infection in wine. The latest buzzword, gravity flow, involves architects in devising ways of building wineries into hillsides to allow the wine to flow naturally.Used properly, technology can be harnessed to help us understand why time-honoured practices work - or don't. But the less desirable consequences can be corner-cutting: spraying without thinking, increased yields that compromise quality, excessive filtering.In a world that demands reliability, it is arguable whether today's sophisticated technology is used less as a means of achieving quality and more to iron out the peaks and troughs of vintage variation for the sake of consistency.