Twickenham Farmers’ Market

I’ve been thinking for so long that I should write a post about my great local farmers’ market in Twickenham and finally this morning I got round to taking some photos ready to put on the blog. It’s held every week in the Holly Road car park behind the Twickenham M&S Simply Food, between 9.00 […]

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Focaccia – Not A Single Story

I thought I knew what focaccia was; indeed, I make it sometimes, using a Carluccio recipe. What I didn’t realise was that there are variations. I’d sometimes been served focaccia which seemed to me more like a pizza bianco – a pizza with no tomato sauce base  – and thought, ‘That’s not focaccia.’ But actually, […]

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Ruben’s Bakehouse: Artisan Bakery in Twickenham

Just before Christmas, five minutes walk from my house, opened the most wonderful bakery – Ruben’s Bakehouse. I only had to look at it, peer inside the window at the rows of fabulous bread, to know this was very good news indeed. I’ve always loved good bread. I may even, it has to be admitted, […]

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The De Beauvoir Deli

I stayed over at Annie and Jerry’s in north London after the wonderful meal at The Cinnamon Kitchen last Wednesday and the next morning they took me for breakfast in a wonderful deli, just round the corner from them, which Annie had talked to me about before and thought it was just the kind of […]

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Gustiamo – A Passion for Italian Food

The Gustiamo team: One of the many wonderful things about writing this blog is the way it is connecting me to other people passionate about good food.  It’s turning out to be a kind of gourmet ‘pass the parcel’ – though in this case, everyone wants share the good things in the parcel!  After my […]

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