I fell in love with this book the moment I saw it, on a friend’s coffee table, towards the end of last year. Sitting in her flat, steaming a number of Christmas puddings and occasionally checking they hadn’t run low on water, I had plenty of time to give the book lots of attention. By ... Read more »
My Easter Egg review panel and I may not have liked Artisan du Chocolat’s chocolate Easter egg offerings but oh my goodness, I absolutely must recommend their adorable little “Crème de la Crème Eggs“! These are a clever reinterpretation of the famous Cadbury’s Crème Egg but so much tastier! Wrapped in coloured cellophane, like large ... Read more »
A pagan symbol of spring and rebirth adopted by early Christians to represent the resurrection of Jesus, Easter eggs haven’t always been chocolate. In many cultures hand-painted egg shells or hard-boiled eggs, carved wooden eggs and even elaborately crafted, bejewelled precious metal eggs are still commonly exchanged. Creative Commons images from Flickr by Boby Dimitrov, ... Read more »
This rib-sticking comfort-food pasta recipe for Creamy Sausage Pasta comes from A Slice of Cherry Pie by Julia Parsons. Warming and perfect for autumn and winter, or any cold day when you need warming up, this is easy to make and even easier to eat! Read our review of Julia Parson’s A Slice of Cherry Pie. ... Read more »
A week before Christmas, London was covered in a blanket of snow. It seemed the ideal time for… ice-cream! My friends, Edd, Simon and I decided that’s just what we fancied and met at Camden Town tube station to make our way to the chin chin laboratorists, near the lock. The Chin Chin Laboratorists are ... Read more »
Since it was published in 2002, Unwrapped: Green & Black’s Chocolate Recipes has sold more than half a million copies. Its recipes for chocolate coffee and walnut cake, chocolate truffles, chocolate pecan pie, chocolate salted caramel tart, white chocolate cardamom mousse, chocolate flapjacks, chocolate ginger cake, chocolate brownies (is the word “chocolate becoming redundant yet?) ... Read more »
When I asked people what Christmas food (and drink) they most love and hate, Christmas pudding topped the list of hates. Luckily, enough people love Christmas pudding for me to easily find a band of volunteers to taste test a random selection of 2010 Christmas puddings. When Sarah of Spoon PR kindly volunteered Spoon HQ ... Read more »
The best thing about blogging is meeting people. People who share the obsession with food and people who work in the industry – as chefs, producers and writers. One such individual I met recently was the charming and talented Josceline Dimbleby, at a lunch event for the launch of her latest book Orchards in the Oasis: ... Read more »
One of the best things about travelling around Britain is the opportunity to visit high-quality, local, specialist producers and try and buy their products. One such producer is Brown & Forrest, a small family run smokery producing a wide range of smoked goods including eel, salmon and duck, to name just a few. Started ... Read more »
Hallowe’en has it’s origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, meaning “summer’s end”: The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family’s ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is ... 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]