Friday, June 18, 2021

Appetite for destruction

I'd come across Baking Daddy, the mildly disturbing alter ego of Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson, and was also aware that Steve Albini is a keen cook and has hosted classes (during which he plugs a steak rub made by Silkworm bassist Tim Midyett).

But I'll admit I'd be even more terrified of taking culinary guidance from Einsturzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld. After all, a man whose band used to set fire to venues and shower audiences in glass by chucking milk bottles into an onstage cement mixer probably has a fairly cavalier attitude to food safety.

That said, how dangerous could spaghetti cacio e pepe be? Plus Ronan of Nightshift was at the 1987 London gig when the Germans chose Showaddywaddy as their support act - which does suggest that, in the kitchen, Bargeld might be a bit of an alchemist, taking unlikely ingredients and coming up with inspired results.

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