Comprehensive cookery class reviews.
A class at Wye Valley Meadery is a relaxed affair. As well as learning how to make mead – including key steps such as sterilising equipment, preparing ingredients and adding flavours – students also experience an in-depth tour of the meadery’s mead and beer making equipment and processes, and enjoy a mammoth tasting session of ... Read more »
I’m so excited to tell you about our wonderful day attending Marcus Bawdon’s Country Wood Smoke UK BBQ School! Located in the grounds of Fordmore farm, farm shop and cafe in Devon, classes are held in a custom-built BBQ shed; the sides are open to allow for proper ventilation but a clear roof covering ensures ... Read more »
We fell in love with yakiniku (also known in Japan as Korean barbeque) when visiting Japan, and have loved it ever since. This year, one of my Christmas gifts from Pete was a table-top Korean barbeque grill by Primst, and a big box of bamboo charcoal briquettes. We veered towards Japanese flavours for our first ... Read more »
If all you want is to get your hands on Damson Chocolate, jump directly to the 15% discount code! The Road to Becoming a Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Maker I’ve written before about my friend Dom Ramsey, who I met back in 2009, not long after I started blogging. Back then, Dom was a chocolate blogger, and much ... Read more »
Visiting hill tribes in Thailand to learn about their history, culture and cuisine was something I really wanted to do during our three week Thailand itinerary. What is a Thai Hill Tribe? Hill tribe (chao khao) is a modern-day term used in Thailand as a catch-all for the various ethnic groups that have mostly inhabited ... Read more »
Ode to Sossidge by Kavey Eats Oh porky banger of goodness, how I love thee so. I love thy tightly stretched skin, pulled taught around thy meaty filling. I love to char thy surface, till thee art good and hot, and thy fat oozes out into the pan. And then to slice – that moment ... Read more »
London isn’t traditionally known as a place where cheese is made but in fact there are London based producers, one of whom is the fantastic Wildes Cheese. Launched in 2012 after cheese maker Philip Wilton was made redundant from a management consultant job, the business is run by Phil and partner Keith Sides out of ... Read more »
‘Dim sum means a little touch of the heart’, explains Jeremy Pang, founder of the School of Wok, relating the delightful tale of how dim sum developed. Traditionally, the old yum cha (tea drinking) houses of China served only tea, but one day the owner of one such tea house welcomed a traveller so tired ... Read more »
I’ve attended many, many, many cookery classes over the years. I’ve enjoyed nearly all of them but a few have definitely stood out from the crowd, and those include every class I’ve ever taken at School of Wok. There is a great balance between fun and learning, with class sizes of 8-16 ensuring that everyone ... Read more »
If any one nation excels at skilfully enhancing an area of natural beauty to make it even more beautiful, it must surely be Japan? Certainly, we couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful setting than HOSHINOYA Karuizawa, located in an area known colloquially as the Japanese Alps. About Hoshinoya Karuizawa is not only one of the ... Read more »
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void this morning, an amazing VR experience where we got to be Rebel Alliance members going undercover as… [more]