I’ve recently been spending more time in Leith so have been exploring the best places for lunch. After one truly awful piece of quiche in one establishment, I came across the Shore Deli close by Martin Wishart’s restaurant in Fleur’s old premises.
Dubrovnik is an extremely busy place, huge cruise ships arrive day in day out in the summer. In the walled city, tourists throng through the streets which are all pedestrianised. Visitors soon find that they need very strong legs to walk up and down the steep steps to where many…
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…
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…
You might consider going all the way to Kerala to discover how to cook vegetarian food a trifle excessive, but I cannot think of a more enjoyable way to do so! We spent a week at The Pimenta on our foodie holiday. As a meat eater, it could have been…
John and Miles are at Edinburgh Science Festival on March 31, 2013 How many of us actually eat wild plants these days? Picking blackberries, elderflowers and elderberries, sloes and wild garlic are all popular finds for me. Much as we like the idea of mushroom picking, that’s fraught with problems.…
It’s great to get a parcel through the post. The team at Octopus Publishing must have thought I needed something to make me smile. Opening the package and finding inside “Dress your Cookie” certainly did. Decorating cookies could very well become the next craze after cupcakes. The book by Joanna…
Not so long ago jams and chutneys seemed to form the bulk of products you’d find at such a food fair. At the Speciality Food Fair in Glasgow, there were plenty of sauces and chutneys on display in such a range and variety! Caroline and I enjoyed our discovering the…
I don’t know whether you’ve heard of Blipfoto? You get the chance to take one photo a day and upload it with as much or as little description as you like. Fellow blippers (people who upload photos) comment on the photo or the topic Commenting on a photo I’d taken…
Those of you who read the blog regularly, will know that I have a thing about pigs. And, as this is a food blog, my admiration of the living beast naturally to eating. So it was a natural step to butcher one (or two). Music and pigs I recently met…
