As an individual plighted by the symbiotic ailments of chocoholism and sugar addiction, it nigh-on kills me to painstakingly extract the Chocally box intact from its bubblewrap when I’d rather tear into it like a frenzied, feral animal who hasn’t eaten for a week. Wipe that smirk off your face imagining my agony. Did no-one inform you that it’s unkind to mock the afflicted?
The Bingham, Richmond
By the time you read this there may something on the TV news other than reporters wading about earnestly while another OAP and her cat is boated to safety behind them. The great floods will be but a memory one day but as I watched the Thames rushing past like an express train from the calm comfort of the Bingham’s dining room last week, it seemed we were all doomed.
Asparagus, red onion and Davistow glazed omelette
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.
Tripe-Stephane Reynaud
People who have come from places where food is scarce do not have the luxury of picking and choosing only the finer cuts. And while we in the UK have lost touch with the food of our grandparents, the French still eat nose to tail and Stephane Reynaud, a very French chef, has this book to help us do the same.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.