I heard about Anthony Warner, aka the angry chef, earlier this year when he appeared on a BBC pod cast I listened to. He has a blog that investigates/exposes food fads and pseudo-scientific ideas. When The Angry Chef : Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating book came out I…
Dear Alfonso – An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter
Kerry was invited along to the launch of Mary Contini’s new book ‘Dear Alfonso – An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter‘ at Valvona & Crolla and it was the perfect opportunity to get her own copy of the book signed to add to her other Mary Contini books, Dear Olivia and Dear Francesca. Continue reading
The Edinburgh Fringe may have been going for over a week now but The Edinburgh Book Festival (12 – 28 August) actually only starts tomorrow. Why not tingle your taste buds with their afternoon tea events taking place in the Spiegeltent?
Finances have prevented me from going on holiday this year yet I’ve been hankering after the sun, sea and flavours of one of my favorite travel destinations, Turkey. Sadly it’s not going to happen but an invitation to escape to the wilds of the Highlands to learn to cook with…
These days, I do most of my travel through books; cookery books in particular. A month ago I was asked if I wanted to review Sri Lanka: the Cookbook by Prakash K Siranathan and Nirajala M Ellawala. I did! I know very little about Sri Lanka and was curious to…
Jordan Bourke is an Irish chef and a fellow Observer Food Monthly Award Winner (2016) for his best-selling Our Korean Kitchen, which he wrote with his gorgeous wife, Rejina Pyo and which won Best New Cookbook, as well as the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book Award 2016. In his new…
“How do you remember things? What are your clearest memories? … My most vivid memories consistently jog my brain with the recollection of how things tasted.” Relish is an autobiography in comic form. It’s a charming, funny and a very human love letter to food and examines how it made Lucy who she is.…
Birthdays are a time for celebration, some would say but when you hit a significant number the birthday wishes come in all sorts of disguises.
With the new year came a tightening of my purse-strings as my working week has gone from five to three days. I therefore need to cut back on eating out yet there’s still a need to catch up with friends but on a budget.
Cheese is one of my Favourite Things. You can keep chocolate: cheese, in its manifold textures and flavours, is what I really love. You can imagine my excitement when the The Oxford Companion to Cheese came out. When I planned this post, the opening photo was of a glass of…
