If you have never been to a calçotada, it’s about time you did. This seasonal celebration of the calçot hails from Spain’s Catalan region, where locals celebrate the humble allium with much merriment and greed every year. I first learned of it from Rachel McCormack, who brought the tradition to London when she organised a ... Read more »
Attending the Catalan Pig Day cooking class by Rachel McCormack and Anna Colquhoun is a revelation of flavours and textures, as well as a good reminder to use every part of an animal. In the class we cook the pigs head and trotters, use its blood to make morcilla (blood sausages) and make a delicious ... 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]