Michelin Starred Chef, Nathan Outlaw delivers some tasty treats with Davistow cheese. Michelin Starred Chef, Nathan Outlaw delivers some tasty treats with Davistow cheese. The Davidstow creamery has been making cheddar for sixty years. Built on what was once a wartime aerodrome, it sits in rich dairy country. Over 400 local farmers supply them with the milk needed to give the award-winning cheddar its distinctive creamy character.
Mary Berry & Lucy Young Cook Up a Feast
You will doubtless know about Mary Berry from the Great British Bake-Off, but it certainly isn’t only baking that she’s good at, as this book shows, even if there is some baking in it. Together with her long-time collaborator Lucy Young, Berry takes the stress out of cooking for a crowd.
Souli: Gourmet food and the best coffee outside of Rome?
London is facing a gastronomic crisis. Throughout the capital, hungry office workers are being forced to visit the same tired lunchtime chains serving cardboard sandwiches and dry, limp salads, washed down with calorie bomb imitation coffee. Something has to be done, and now the capital may finally have a saviour – Souli.
Review of The Meat Co. Westfield London
In my quest to satisfy my masculine cravings, I headed down to Shepherds Bush, where the first and only branch of South Africa’s The Meat Co. is located a minute away from the tube station in the outside section of Westfield shopping centre.
Salt n Pepper
Salt’n Pepper is a new outpost of a chain that has done very well in Pakistan for thirty years, the menu is said to be’authentic’ but I can’t comment on that, best ask a Pakistani what he or she thinks. It’s not fine dining, and obviously it isn’t Indian, except in the rather lazy generic sense.
The power of Polenta
Is polenta the least known Italian food in the UK? Sure we love our pasta, we pack away pizzas and we aren’t averse to a bit of risotto, but mention polenta to many a Brit and you’ll basically get a blank look.
What’s On: Valentine’s Day
Sprinkle the petals, fill the toilet bowl with rose water and turn up the Barry White: that sweeter than honey lovey-dovey day is almost upon us. That’s right lovers, Foodepedia was never sure how to say this before but, uh …we really like you, and we’d love to take you out for dinner sometime, so here are our most romantic Valentine’s Day date ideas for all you paired up penguins that don’t pay too much attention to clocks and calendars.
Pan Seared Valentine’s Steak with a Vanilla Peppercorn Sauce
Pan Seared Valentine’s Steak with a Vanilla Peppercorn Sauce and Vanilla Panacotta with Valentine’s Berries. Sourced from the vanilla orchid, vanilla has been regarded as an aphrodisiac since the time of the Aztecs, while in the 1800s Dr John King advised in the American Dispensatory that one should use vanilla to “stimulate the sexual propensities”.
Gaucho City – a very hot Valentine’s meal
Gaucho, the steak place that was there before most other steak places, have created a special hot menu for Valentine’s day at Gaucho City that won’t cause any embarrassment later. Hot but not spicy it gives a warm romantic glow without the usual after effects How do I know? Well I got a preview.
Waipara West 2014
There must be something special about this site because every Waipara West wine that I’ve tasted has been memorable for all the right reasons; and the wines are numerous.