One Angry Year

Dec 31, 2016

Happy New Year Hello all. It has been a year since I started writing the Angry Chef blog and much has happened in that short time. What started as little more than a middle aged man swearing and talking to himself has become a widely read blog where a middle aged man swears and talks to himself. This change has resulted in my life being transformed, as it has come to light that I have the ability to write stuff that some people enjoy reading. This is a strange twist of fate, as I am an

The Milk of Human Foolishness Part 2

Dec 22, 2016

PART 2 Last time we looked at the links made between dairy and cancer and why the outlying theories of a geologist are often given more credence than those of serious scientific organisations like the World Cancer Research Fund, WHO, NHS, Cancer Research or The Irish Cancer Society. For anyone with an interest in science and evidence, the existence of these sort of links and their prevalence in the media is deeply upsetting. I hate to see foods unnecessarily demonised and can’t help but

The Milk of Human Foolishness - Part 1

Dec 10, 2016

PART 1     I am slightly worried that I might be a bit weird. Slightly? You spend most of your time swearing and talking to yourself. Recently, during a debate on obesity at a large food and health conference, an eminent speaker revealed the apparently shocking statistic that 87% of the financial health burden in developed countries now comes from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This revelation drew shocked gasps from the audience. Something must be done. We must bring an end to this

Welcome to Angry Chef

Nov 25, 2016

For one reason or another, over the past couple of months we seemed to have picked up quite a few new Angry Chef readers, so I thought that it might be time for a bit of housekeeping. I appreciate that, apart from a dedicated few who have been here since the early days, to most people the world of the Angry Chef might just seem a little bit impenetrable and weird. I started this blog earlier this year, born out of years of frustration at the nonsense and bullshit pseudoscience that pervades