Pizza bianco 500g strong white bread flour

For the base

500g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting 

1 x 7g sachet fast-action yeast mixed with about 150ml warm water 

1tbsp clear honey 

3tbsp olive oil 

2tsp salt

For the topping

200-250g potatoes, very thinly sliced 

1 medium red or white onion, thinly sliced 

150g Taleggio, sliced

Pizza bianco

To make the pizza base, mix all of the ingredients together in a food processor (with the dough hook attachment) for 2-3 minutes to form a stiff dough, adding a little more water during mixing if the dough isn't coming together. Cover the bowl with clingfilm; leave to prove in a warm place for a few hours, until the dough has doubled in volume.

Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it back to its original size on a lightly-floured table. Using a floured rolling pin, roll the dough out to form a circle roughly 25-30cm in diameter. Transfer the pizza base to a piece of lightly-floured greaseproof paper. Leave the dough to rise a little under a tea towel in a warm place for 30 minutes.

Preheat your oven to its maximum heat and place a circular pizza stone or baking tray inside to heat up for 20 minutes. Take your pizza base, arrange the topping ingredients over it evenly and slide it on to your stone or tray. Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the crust is golden brown.

Beer Politics drink Sam Adams

At the red end of the spectrum, Republicans are more likely to drink Sam Adams, Amstel Light, Leinenkugel and Coors Light. But the most Republican beer of them all? Shiner Bock. From what I remember from a GOP convention way way back, the bottled water of Republican choice is Fiji.

On the blue end of the spectrum .

Beer Politics drink Sam Adams

... MGD, Corona, and to a lesser degree, any microbrew or hard cider. The bluest of the blue donkey brews, though, is Heineken. (Not included in the study: beer-politics-playing President Obama's White House suds.) I don't remember what bottled water Dems like.

Undecideds and neutrals? Busch, Natty Light, Foster's, Henry Weinhard's, Miller High Life and Bud Light. Be sure to include Dos Equis drinkers in that number, because the Dos Equis fans don't like being lumped in with the World's Most Interesting Man -- an Obama booster.

The poll, graphed out by the conservative National Journal, also looked at which beer drinkers were most likely to go to the polls and actually, you know, vote, and which were most likely to stay home and, well, probably drink beer.

The most vote-motivated beer drinkers, by far: Sierra Nevada fans (who are solidly Democratic).

The lazier beers drinkers, at least when it comest to going to the polls: Corona drinkers (Dem) and Lone Star fans (Republican).

Quinoa Cuisine by Kelley Sparwasser

(You may also have the sensation of something heavy pressing on your head: That would probably be a rock, which you may or may not live under.)

There are a handful of good quinoa cookbooks out there celebrating the superfood, but Quinoa Cuisine by Jessica Harlan and Kelley Sparwasser offers a refreshingly relaxed approach to quinoa. While the authors are obviously aware of quinoa's many health benefits, there's very little of the breathless, starstruck tone that people so often seem to adopt toward quinoa. The 150 recipes don't assume that you're a health-food-store-shopper, or on a diet, or undertaking some obsessive quest to eat only superfoods for a whole year. Instead, they're just...good recipes. Using quinoa. Imagine that.

Quinoa Cuisine by Kelley Sparwasser

We connected with the authors to get their take on the quinoa craze, three recipes from the book, plus tips for cooking and baking with quinoa. 

Recipes to try:

Quinoa Salad with Kale, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan

Quinoa, Bacon, and Blue Cheese Fritters with Horseradish-Yogurt Sauce

Honey-Glazed Duck with Fig and Pistachio Red Quinoa

Epicurious: Quinoa is consistently among the top 20 search terms on Epicurious, and we were surprised to see how many of the recipes submitted for our Healthy Lunchtime Challenge contest contained quinoa--and these were recipes from 8 to 12 year-old kids! Why do you think this pseudograin is suddenly winning the popularity contest?

Jessica Harlan: It really does seem to be everywhere these days, doesn't it? I think people know that eating whole grains is good for them, but they're getting bored with brown rice and some of the other typical grains. Quinoa has a neat texture (it pops in your mouth, almost like caviar), a versatile and relatively mild flavor, and it's so quick and easy to cook--white quinoa can be ready to serve in less than 15 minutes. Plus it's got an amazing nutritional profile--it's a complete protein, high in fiber, calcium, iron and a whole list of other nutrients. It is so good for you that at one point NASA was considering it as a potential crop to grow on a space station.

Kelley Sparwasser: I agree. I feel that pseudograins, quinoa in particular, are rapidly gaining popularity. With more people turning to a gluten-free diet, quinoa offers an array of options with three varieties of the grain