• Innovation? Not in Yorkshire!

I liked this .  I do hate washing up so I might be interested in this, but I wouldn't exactly call the idea an innovation.  For hundreds of years we ate off a "trencher" a piece of think bread used where we now use a plate and eaten afterwards.  And being a Yorkshire lad of course I know they've kept the idea alive with Yorkshire Pudding which are not always those dainty little gravy holders on the side of your plate:

For those who can't stand the washing up, help is at hand with one of the strangest culinary inventions in years - the bread bowl.

The firm expects to be selling naan bowls filled with chicken tikka masala in supermarkets this year

A Birmingham food firm has started making bowls and plates out of dough. The idea is that diners enjoy a soup, chilli or curry, then eat the bowl too.

David Williams, the managing director of Butt Foods, which has developed the idea, admits: "Our banks, our investors all thought we were crackers. But we've now proved them wrong."