The Italians know what food is for – it’s for lunch – a meal that can often stretch on until it becomes dinner. The best Italian food is found, unsurprisingly in Italy, but in about the same time it takes for a budget airline to deposit you, cantankerous and queasy from your in-flight ‘snack’, at Pisa airport you could be at Nonna’s in Sheffield.
Sagatiba Brings Brasil to the Palm of Your Hand with New iPhone App
Got an iPhone? Then get a cocktail.When you’re on a night out or you’re having a party and are in need of some great drinks recipes fast – the newly launched Sagatiba App has all the answers.
Visit South Africa’s top Wineries at The Avalon
On Tuesday 8th September, The Avalon, the Clapham public house owned by Tom Peake, Mark Reynolds and Nick Fox, will showcase an exclusive five-course gastronomic feast, paired with fine wines from the award winning Waterkloof Estate in the prestigious Stellenbosch region of South Africa The menu, with wines, is priced at just £38.50 per head, with only 20 tickets available, wine lovers will need to act quickly to reserve a seat.
Mestizo’s fourth’Gastronomic Week’ Festival starts on 8th September
Mestizo, with both Mexican chefs and staff is one of London’s authentic Mexican restaurants. Mestizo has recently announced their fourth ‘Gastronomic Week’ Festival which is to run from the 8th to the 13th September.
Recipes from KitchenAid 90
You can’t buy the KitchenAid 90 cookbook in the shops, you have to buy the iconic mixer and get it free. Not that you’d need much incentive to buy such a wonderful gadget. We have three recipes from the book to tempt you. Crab cakes with mango and sweetcorn salsa, Tortilla Pasqualina and Chocolate, apricot and Szechuan pepper tartlets
KitchenAid90. You know you want one
I’ve always wanted a KitchenAid. Yes I know it’s ‘only’ a food mixer, but that’s like saying an Aston Martin is just a car. I mean just look at the KitchenAid! How can you not want to own and show off something like that? Not want to run your hand over its supple curves, to stroke its handsome little beater, to gaze at your hunky reflection in its lovely shiny bowl?
Plane Picnics at Heathrow by Gordon Ramsay Plane Food
These prepared picnics include some of the restaurant’s signature dishes including Caesar Salad, Smoked Salmon Croque Monsieur and Chocolate and pecan brownie with crème Chantilly. All the food can be taken onboard, or simply eaten in one of the many seating areas in the terminal. Probably with someone else’s child falling over your feet and an Australian backpacker fast asleep and dribbling on your shoulder.
Raise a glass to the Meet and Wine Club’s latest event
The Meat & Wine Co has announced that their recently launched wine club, ‘The Meet & Wine Club’, will be holding it’s third meeting on Tuesday 1st September 2009 entitled ‘Call my bluff Mr Chancellor’. The event’s focus is all about buying value for money wines. We understand that accompanying the taste test will be platters of delicious canapés and all this is very reasonably priced at £20 per head.
Canned sustainable American Albercore tuna now on sale in the UK
Canned tuna is a UK food cupboard staple, bought by nearly 90% of households. As the second biggest consumer in the world, we can have a massive impact on improving the sustainability of the fishing that fills the cans. So, if you are conscious about the ecological issues surrounding the tuna industry, why not get along and try some of the AAFA product and support their efforts to ensure sustainability of tuna stocks for future generations.
British Food Fortnight – fly the flag
With British food being more popular than ever, what better way to proudly celebrate our Britishness then with two gloriously British food-filled weeks in the form of ‘British Food Fortnight’. Running from 19th September to 4th October, ‘British Food Fortnight’ forms the biggest national celebration of the diverse range of foods that our great nation produces.