Saffron Strands

A few days ago I attended a Birkbeck Food Group event with one of my food heroes, Claudia Roden.   It took Claudia 5 years to research ...

The East End Trades Guild Inaugural Meeting I love my life in London, for so many reasons, but every now and then stories from the li...

Christmas Pudding OK, we've passed mid-November which means even I have to start thinking about Christmas now. Well, at least w...

Tarte Vigneron at The Green Man and French Horn I normally write about a place I like after a couple of visits but in the case of The ...

Chioggia and Burpees Golden Beetroots Having an allotment or kitchen garden means there is almost always a glut of some fruit or veget...

The Art of  Cooking with Vegetables Alain Passard Some time in the 1990's I was lucky enough to eat at L'Arpege in Paris.  Dis...

Slice of Raspberry & Rose Sponge Cake I have a thing about roses.  The heady scent of old roses in a garden on a warm summer eveni...

Donostia Cod cheeks Pil Pil Cod cheeks don't get better than this.  These little morsels, as desirable as the 'oysters' ...

It's not every day you get an invitation to take tea with an author your admire. Well, not in my world anyway.  It was never going ...

Salt Sugar Smoke by Diana Henry I've dabbled a little in preserving food over the years but until I got my hands on an allotment i...