What the Internet on Tuesdays can throw up...

Personality deciphering based on the type of coffee you like???

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/epicure/can-coffee-predict-personality/2010/02/08/1265477562658.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Pity there is nothing to describe those who like their short macs, piccolos, ristrettos etc What do you call those who like their siphon coffees, their pour overs, their Vietnamese drip coffees?

Evidence that, yes, there are hard core foodies out there, much more obsessed about the subject matter than the Foodie Team can really ever be:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/epicure/foodies-unite/2010/02/08/1265477561336.html

Of course, what is the sharing of food without learning about how to make small talk, work out when it is appropriate to disclose revealing personal facts and gauge whether a person will laugh or run away screaming at your jokes?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/epicure/talkin-bout-my-conversation/2010/02/04/1265151934535.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Yes, the Toastmasters are not people obsessed with bread and how it should be toasted, though the name does denote a wonderful match with the hard core foodies in the second Epicure article and certainly the group would probably be attributed (wrongly) to this little invention:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/the-ten-best-toasters-994490.html?action=Popup&ino=5

This same company also came up with a variable temperature kettle that has five, yes you read right, FIVE temperature controls for "optimal tea and coffee brewing". Whatever happened to "listening to the kettle's whistling"?

Many of us will by now have noticed Matt Preston's very public jump to News Corporation by absence from the Tuesday Age, joining his Masterchef colleague Sarah Wilson (who has been previously lauded in this blog for her writing and hosting style). One consequence of this is that the Foodie Team will no longer be able to connect online readers to his articles as the News Corporation has decided Matt's pieces will appear only in hard copy *bawl*. If anyone can find his 2010 articles online, please let the Foodie Team know.