I love Japanese food but the stuff worth paying for is usually quite pricey – so occasionally, I make it at home. My sushi has had limited success (to be fair, most sushi chefs train for decades) whilst my ramen gets better every time. I can’t get enough of the umami-rich noodles…
I write: for a living, for fun, because it’s what I want to do. And as a writer, and a reader, I love books. This week, I bring you three foody books that would be on my Christmas wish-list if they weren’t already in my bookcase: The Social Bite Cookbook, Taste:…
I love this time of year. We have had a fair few sunny days and the garden is waking up. My tomato seeds have germinated and are peering out of the window craving the light As to cooking, I want to be inspired. I want to move away from the…
Street food is hugely popular at the moment. Cairo Kitchen, a cookbook inspired by the recipes used in the eponymous Egyptian restaurant chain, adds Middle Eastern dishes to the street food mix. Wanting to recreate a restaurant version of the popular Egyptian koshary cart, Suzanne Zeidy and her partners started…
I read recently, that if you cut down the amount of salt you have in your diet, it takes 3 months before it makes any difference. So our rush each January to resolve to eat more healthily and for us to see a difference within a few weeks is probably…
Our guest blogger is Vohn McGuinness who blogs over at Vohn’s Vittles. Edinburgh Foody kindly sent me the new book Patisserie: A Step-by-step Guide to Baking French Pastries at Home by Murielle Valette to review. It is, quite simply, a beautiful book with stunning photographs throughout. Ms Valette is from a family…
For this post I invited Graeme Faulks to review this post. He lives in Edinburgh’s New Town is a keen amateur cook, an avid follower of food and a great lover of wine. Graeme’s Review For those of you who aren’t familiar with GQ, it is a monthly, unashamedly gentlemanly…
Hot from my post on sous vide cooking last week, I am looking at the slow cooker this week. It really seems to be having something of a revival. Caroline has just purchased one and there are many people out there who are passionate users of their cooker on a…
If Martin Morales has anything to do with it, Peruvian cooking will become the taste of 2013. Owner of Ceviche in London, dubbed the hottest restaurant of the year, he has just completed a 10-venue whistle stop tour of the country. Each night, he and his team created a pop…
Are you entering the first ever World Bread Awards? With categories for the professional and home baker, it celebrates the very best of real bread. There are just two months to go before the awards, sponsored by Tiptree, close to entries on 31 August 2013. Ever up for a challenge,…
