Travel Gourmet’s 5 Quick Fixes in the Kitchen

August 5, 2018.Reading time 12 minutes.

My attitude to preparing meals is very ‘pure’ in the sense that I never buy ready-made meals, I buy good quality – mostly organic – ingredients and keep things simple; an emphasis on cooking Italian style with just a very few ingredients. When I was a young thing with a young family, I used to […]

Grom Gelato, Piccadilly, London

July 15, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Travel Gourmet is always on the hunt for a good gelato and London has in recent years spawned a glorious collection of great gelaterias. I’ve been to Grom in Italy a few times, recently in Siena but also in Florence, Genoa and Turin. I’ve eaten Grom gelato in Nice. So when I came back from […]

Siena 2018: Market Day & A Senese Lunch

June 27, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

As I’m only here in Siena for 4 days, I was pleased to discover that one of the days – Wednesday – is the weekly market day. Having walked around and looked over Piazza del Mercato behind the Campo so often, I assumed that’s where the market would be. Fortunately, Elisa was sitting in Reception […]