I was talking to my mother last weekend. We got on to how both our eating habits have changed, how neither of us would now use the powder sauces, cheap sausages and instant mash that I loved and she found so convenient when I was a child. She said: ‘It’s not…
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…
The Virtues of the Table is sub-titled How to Eat and Think. It was the secondary title that attracted me to the book. It’s a book about food and philosophy, applying a philosophical approach to what we eat and how we eat it. It’s not a book that prescribes how…
Edinburgh is awash with festivals. In Inverleith Park, Foodies Festival is winding up, while across the centre of town, the International and Fringe festivals are getting into stride in their second week. Meanwhile, in Charlotte Square, the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) has just started. The book festival has a special place in…
Today I am reviewing the A-Z of Eating Out by Joseph Connolly. Connolly is a writer, journalist, book collector and determined champion of eating out. His publishers describe his latest book as an “Amuse bouche for dad…the perfect present for Father’s Day”. As the A-Z name suggests, it is…
I’m a food blogger, so I take food seriously, not just what I eat, but where I eat it and how it’s cooked. Also, I cook. Most of the food I eat is made in from scratch. Not that we don’t use shortcuts: I’m a huge fan of tinned tomatoes…
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…
