Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
My first thought, I have to confess, was, Do I want to cook like Heston? I’ve never eaten in a Heston Blumenthal restaurant and while there’s no way I’d refuse an offer if someone said they’d take me, I’d be slightly wary having watched some of his more outrageous cookery programmes. I’m quite classic in […]
Read MoreI chanced upon this documentary on BBC4 last night at 9.00pm when just flicking channels, seeing what was on before the brilliantly funny Rev, to which I’m unashamedly addicted, was due to start at 9.30. However, once I’d started watching Yotam Ottolenghi, nothing was going to move me – not even Rev, which would have to wait for […]
Read MoreHow could the Single Gourmet Traveller resist the temptation to buy tickets for a play at the National Theatre called, The Kitchen? It must be the first time I’ve bought tickets for a play based just on its title rather than because I admire the playwright or the director or because a famous actor is […]
Read MoreI was sent this lovely cookery book last week which Claudia Roden describes as ‘a precious and important record of the cooking of the Babylonian Jews of Iraq’. It’s a very personal cookery book; the kind I like as there is a nice story to go with it, in this case Dangoor’s birth in Baghdad […]
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