On a sunny Sunday afternoon I went to Summerhall to a room full of chefs and producers, inviting us to taste their food and learn how to cook at an event sponsored by Highland Park and Lavazza that signalled the beginning of Slow Food week.
We’re standing in the The Pompadour by Galvin Restaurant at The Caledonian, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Edinburgh. It’s a room beloved of many Edinburgh residents who have partaken tea there over the years. Now it is an elegant, warm room decorated in pastels and includes the original Chinese panels.…
An academic friend of mine, Professor Hazel Hall teaches a class at Edinburgh Napier University on Knowledge Management. At the start of the course, she announces that the class will be learning to knit. Some of the students get written instructions, some get instructions with illustrations and the remaining ones…
Why do I write a food blog? Wherever I go, food is a great starting point for a conversation. Those passionate about food are some of the loveliest people you could hope to meet, whether they are growing the product, cooking it, writing about it or indeed promoting it, and…
Since this post was written, Hotel Missoni has closed. White truffles are particularly expensive this year explains Cucina’s head chef Mattia Camorani at Hotel Missoni. The temperatures were so high in Italy and the ground so dry, they didn’t get the chance to grow big. On the other hand, they…
I am standing in a room bustling with chefs on the 6-month course at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School (ENTCS). One of the dishes they are creating is a delicious sounding spicy chickpea soup and a clafoutis is also on the menu. Fiona Burrell, Principal and owner is showing me…
How on earth can a wine glass make wine taste better? I went along to Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms to find out. One of the most important facts I learnt when I spent a week at The Glenrothes distillery learning to make whisky, was not about the whisky at all, but…
Norman Musa is a determined man. His mission is to get thousands of people cooking Malaysian food before the summer is out. I had a chat with Norman just as he was set to take part in the Malaysian Food Festival in London, just a stones’ throw from the Olympic…
Recently, I received a press release from the Four Seasons hotels enticing me to take a culinary break at a far flung location. And whilst I could dream of jetting to the Seychelles just to go and catch a fish which would then be prepared by the head chef for…
Every country have its own methods of cooking, its own ingredients. To experience a country’s authentic cuisine, you sometimes have to go there. Edinburgh Foody went to Kerala to discover local Indian cookery. I was not quite to intrepid. I went to Krua Thai Cookery School in Edinburgh, to learn…
