Via the Daily Telegraph:

Calorie-comfortable Americans have found the perfect rejoinder to the healthy eating lobby – the doughnut burger. Consisting of a bacon cheeseburger with a buttered, grilled and glazed doughnut standing in for a bun, the Craz-E Burger puts such fatty delights as the deep-fried Mars bar in the shade. Its 1,500 calories of sugar and saturated fat did not stop it from becoming a huge hit at a major fair in Massachusetts. Organisers of the Big E, which finished on Sunday, said visitors bought around 1,000 Craz-E burgers each day of the fair’s 17-day run. The fair’s website described it as “classic fair food” but noted: “No single ingredient dominates the burger. They all complement each other with artistry expected from a celebrity chef.” It added: “The glaze smooths over the burger and oozes into a foreign but delicious combination with the crisp of the bacon.”

Via the London Spectator:

Caught short by unexpected guests and an empty larder, in desperation I opened a can of high-end cat food (Fancy Feast brand — chicken, heart & liver flavour), mixed in a shot of brandy and served it as ‘pate’ with some water biscuits. It was delicious (the brandy cutting some of the natural gaminess of the product) — so popular in fact (I confess I repeated this performance with a subsequent group of expected guests) that now friends are asking for the recipe. I’m tempted to laugh it off and come clean — an economical tip for these straitened times, but my wife is mortified. What do you suggest?