Articles from June 2010

June 2010 Articles Archive from Foodepedia

  • The full Brazilian - José Baratino cooks at Skylon

    Nick Harman
    Friday June 25th, 2010

    Meat is not the only thing on the menu from Brazilian star chef Jose Barattino. As part of Festival Brazil on the Southbank, Jose has come over to inject Brazilian modern and traditional cooking onto the menu at Skylon. We meet him and have a taste of what's on offer.

  • Catch of the Day - we reel in fresh fish couriered from Cornwall

    Nick Harman
    Monday June 21st, 2010

    Fresh fish all the way from Cornwall to SW16 and so perfect we couldn't do better if we lived by the sea ourselves instead of by the Brighton Road. We take delivery of a consignment of Cornwall's finest courtesy of Fish for Thought and seek out some great recipes to make the most of them.

  • The Sweet Smell of FA

    Nick Harman
    Monday June 21st, 2010

    The terrible thing is that dishes served today all too often have no aroma. The times I’ve painfully bent down until my nose was buried in the plate to try and detect some olfactory clue are legion. Yes I am the man over at the corner table, apparently about to snort his meal like a gastro Keith Richards.

  • Sunshine Sweetly Captured

    Douglas Blyde
    Tuesday June 8th, 2010

    His mother being Genoese, Douglas Blyde was particularly interested to attend a workshop by Liguria’s most esteemed confectioner, ‘Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano’. He headed to Richmond's most esteemed greenhouse, 'Petersham Nurseries', to find out more...

  • Striking oil in Andalucia

    Nick Harman
    Thursday June 3rd, 2010

    These are no ordinary olive oils destined for the bulk purchase market, because as their creator Rosa explains, the total production of olive oil from her estate is but a tiny drop in the olive oil ocean worldwide. Instead these are fine gourmet oils, to be used as an ingredient in cooking not simply as a means to an end.

  • Nespresso. Wake up and smell proper coffee

    Paul Ruel
    Tuesday June 1st, 2010

    Home coffee makers promise a lot but rarely deliver. Gleaming machines with intricate plumbing, sleek looks and fancy ad campaigns they invariably make all the right gurgling noises but deliver coffee as weak as water. So we viewed the Nespresso machine with cynical eyes. God knows we need a decent coffee machine in the office; the price of decent coffee around Carnaby Street is high even for the directors and totally prohibitive for the interns who already sleep under their desks to save money.