Caroline Sargent

Caroline Sargent

Originally from ‘oop north’, now based deep in the Kentish countryside, Caroline has been eating her way round the world since she was a whippersnapper. Among her consummate consumptions are fish balls in the back streets of Bangkok, self-shucked Lindisfarne oysters and a man-sized portion of steak tartare at Chez Paul, in the Bastille. Former deputy editor of AGA Living magazine, she is a freelance writer and PR and, where food is concerned, is most definitely high maintenance i.e. she always chooses the most expensive thing on the menu.

  • Patten for life

    Tuesday October 19th, 2010

    A living legend, Marguerite Patten has influenced generations of home cooks through her TV and radio programmes, books and cookery demos during her 94 years. Her practical advice and endless creativity has seen the nation through war time rationing and several recessions and she is currently championing the resurgence of home baking, in partnership with Stork margarine. She talked to Caroline Sargent from her home in Brighton.

  • Mustik, Moorgate

    Friday October 15th, 2010

    I have never been to the Caribbean, I have never eaten Caribbean food. With my narrow appreciation of island cuisine all I knew to expect from the recently reborn, tropically themed bar and restaurant Mustik was perhaps some rice and peas, possibly a goat curry and a half decent mojito. The only clue from the outside that this is a Caribbean concept is the thatched straw canopies over the windows and main entrance.

  • Redhook, Clerkenwell

    Thursday September 2nd, 2010

    I really wanted to like Redhook but there’s a balance between making customers feel like part of the crew and casting them out on such a long line that they feel lost and forgotten, bobbing around in a sea of other thirsty and hungry people. Put some welly into front of house and Redhook could be reeling them in.

  • Cooking up a storm in Shropshire

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010

    A unique blend of country chic and contemporary design, Brompton Cookery School is the first of its kind on a National Trust property and offers fledging cooks a genuine opportunity to reconnect the food they prepare to the land from whence it came. Caroline Sargent puts on her pinny and goes back to the classroom.

  • 101 Pimlico Road

    Tuesday July 13th, 2010

    It was with surprise and great delight I found myself having a jolly old time half an hour later in 101 Pimlico Road, a place that has quickly become a favourite neighbourhood hang-out for our co-diners in the six months since it opened.

  • The price is right for Tilda’s prince of rice

    Wednesday June 30th, 2010

    If we’re prepared to pay a bit extra for cave aged Comté or slow matured salt marsh lamb to get the best of the best, why shouldn’t we do the same for pure grain basmati rice?

  • Out on the Wild and Windy Moors

    Monday June 14th, 2010

    Unashamedly squeezing a Kate Bush song into her article title because she's a big fan, Caroline Sargent explores Northumbria and Hadrian's Wall Country with all that it has to offer the traveller and foodie. Staying in a dovecote, poking around castles and putting up with 4 star hotels are all on the menu. Running up that hill, hotly pursued by the hounds of love, will help lose any weight the visitor might put on

  • Putting the grape into Great Britain - English Wine Week

    Monday May 17th, 2010

    The UK wine industry is growing at an impressive rate. Based on data collected at the 2008 harvest there were 416 vineyards recorded in England and Wales with more cropping up in Scotland, Channel Islands and Ireland. Is this an indication that English wines are finally being taken seriously? Caroline Sargent talks to Julia Trustram Eve from English Wine Producers.