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Friday 20 November 2009

Bitter Lemons

Thursday, 19th November 2009

by Sam Thackeray

'It doesn’t matter if the food is brilliant if it’s served by a waiter with a face like a trout sucking a lemon,' argues Sam Thackeray. Restauranteurs and wait staff, look to America for a model of charm and good service.

Categories: America , Food and Drink

Red Velvet

Monday, 9th November 2009

by Jessica Fellowes

It was earlier this year, that I first began to hear wild rumours of a most fabulous-sounding delicacy: the ‘red velvet cake’, writes Jessica Fellowes. It sounded like something the gods themselves would eat. Then I read about someone cooking it, and beetroot being the main ingredient. Yuck, I thought. More like something a misguided hippy would eat.

Categories: Food and Drink , Recipe

Sap Rising

Friday, 6th November 2009

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

So often, I shrink under the wrinkled lip of the aging swede withering at the bottom of the fridge.

A Riverford Organic lunch initiative lightens the burden of a vegetable box delivery, giving Tilly Culme-Seymour some fresh ideas for a creative kitchen.

Categories: Food and Drink , Recipe

You Say Ceviche, I Say Cerbiche

Thursday, 5th November 2009

by Sam Thackeray

The corn chowder, that American classic, was pretty well perfect - sweet, slightly spicy and so more-ish. Santa Barbara shrimp tacos were fabulous too, with a piquant salsa and zingy guacamole. But the star of the show was the pudding, hot pecan pie with praline ice cream and hot fudge sauce; a coronary waiting to happen, but what a way to go.

Categories: America , Food and Drink

California Dreamin'

Tuesday, 3rd November 2009

by Sam Thackeray

Spying Jamie Oliver in the Virgin Lounge at Gatwick was a good omen for the start of an epic gastronomic tour of California.

In the first extract from Sam Thackeray's American travel journal, the newly-weds arrive in Los Angeles, and eat tuna and hamachi sashimi with Jon Voight.

Categories: America , Food and Drink

Proud to Partake of Your Pumpkin Pie

Sunday, 1st November 2009

by Chris Foulkes

At once spicy and comforting, a slab of pumpkin pie is just what you need at this time of year, says Chris Foulkes.

Sir Loin & Friends

Thursday, 29th October 2009

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

One of the guests, the mischievous Nicky Parle, who had spent a weekend learning the art of butchery at a house in the country, arrived with a home-made pork pie, a wobbling cube of porcine jelly, blood sausage and fresh lemon verbena.

Categories: Food and Drink , Recipe

Poached Chicken Comfort and Joy

Thursday, 29th October 2009

by Dan Jellinek

I poached a chicken last weekend: I knew it would be a success, as the method was based on one from a book by Simon Hopkinson, former chef at Bibendum, who is one of a very few cookery writers whose recipes I have never known to fail. As the recipe's title says, comfort and joy.

Categories: Chicken , Recipe

State Of The Art

Wednesday, 28th October 2009

by Kay Hare

Set under a huge glass ceiling, the restaurant was striking: dotted with camelia trees and focus lighting, it became quite magical. Although the setting is formal the food was pleasantly homely. We helped ourselves to French pâtés served in earthenware pots with cornichons and delicious pickles.

Categories: Art , Food

Buckets and Spades

Tuesday, 27th October 2009

by Araminta Eyre

Experienced forager Araminta Eyre travels from an allotment in southwest London to the bone-chilling Atlantic coast in quest of wild food.

Categories: Food and Drink

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F is for Fish in restaurants

Why have so many fish disappeared from our seas? Because we ate them.

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Autumn Wine Club Offer

After decades of success with its Good Ordinary Claret (still by far the company’s bestselling wine), Berry Bros & Rudd decided a couple of years ago to move up a notch and produce an Extra Ordinary Claret.