{"id":4285,"date":"2024-03-23T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T10:38:32","slug":"letters-april-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/letters-april-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; April\/May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ducking the issue<\/strong><br>When ducks detect a predator, a bittern, for example, lurking in the reeds, they tend to kick up a fuss. You could call that a Mallard reaction. Foods may undergo certain chemical changes during cooking. This is called the \u2018Maillard reaction\u2019, after its discoverer Louis Camille Maillard. Christine Cryne&#8217;s article on food matching in the previous edition has suffered a typo that has confused the two. That said, I can recommend smoked duck breast with Harvey&#8217;s Imperial Extra Double Stout (9% ABV)!<br><strong><em>Ian Collinson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ducking the issueWhen ducks detect a predator, a bittern, for example, lurking in the reeds, they tend to kick up a fuss. You could call that a Mallard reaction. Foods&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}