Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
It’s a first for me to review a book I’ve worked on professionally as an editor. However, copy-editing Lady Glenconner’s Picnic Papers was such a delight, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you – especially as there is, of course, a lot about food in this book. A book about picnics has to include food: […]
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Grub Street Publishing kindly offered to send me another of their newly published cookery books to review and when I was told it was a reprint of a classic book about Middle Eastern cookery I was delighted and didn’t hesitate to say, Yes please! I’ve always loved the food of the Middle East region, which […]
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The cooking of Belgium isn’t one of those cuisines that springs immediately to mind amongst the foodies of UK. We’ve been in love with the cooking of France and Italy for a long time; more recently Spanish food has become popular with great tapas bars appearing everywhere; and, of course, chefs like Ottolenghi have inspired […]
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I have to confess to being more than a little late to the party. The first series of Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy to be shown in UK earlier this year has achieved almost cult status amongst its fans. Is there anyone who hasn’t watched and loved it? And now, to this blogger’s great delight, […]
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I was delighted to see there was a new series of Rick Stein’s Cornwall on BBC2 last week: 15 half-hour episodes over three weeks. I really enjoyed the first series last year and it gave me some great information for my holiday in Cornwall last September, especially leading me to Jack Doherty’s pottery in Penzance […]
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We’ve all heard it’s hot in the kitchen; we may have watched Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, but Boiling Point takes the heat in the professional kitchen to a whole new level. Released last summer, the film is now available on Curzon Home Cinema, which is how I came to find it and watch it last […]
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What a joy to see the return of The Great British Bake Off last night. In the 10 years of its life I’ve moved from liking it in its first incarnation on BBC1, to feeling a bit bored by it and almost giving up watching, to then loving it after its move to Channel 4. […]
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If ever we doubted the importance of social interaction, then the last five months of pandemic living has highlighted our basic need to connect and meet with others. From the grim early days of isolation within our houses, we’ve slowly stepped back out towards our more social selves. But we’re still a long way from […]
Read MoreAfter making the Carrot Caponata a couple of nights ago from the book accompanying Jamie Oliver’s new TV series, Jamie Cooks Italy, it was fairly inevitable that I would be sitting in front of my TV at 8.30pm last night, tuned into Channel 4, ready to watch the first episode. I was very enthusiastic about […]
Read MoreSince Sicily Unpacked came to our screens in 2012, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon and chef Giorgio Locatelli have been unpacking their bags all over Italy, giving us an insight into the food, art and history of wherever they travel. The various series over the years have strongly appealed to me as food, art and, of […]
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