Mermaid Omelette Pan

You can use this pan for all kinds of frying, but omelettes are what it does best. For midweek quick snacks it’s perfect and what’s more it washes out in seconds. It’s not cheap, quality never is, but you know it will last you out and be handed down the generations keeping everyone in eggy treats until the last hen stops laying,

Bang! Pow! Zap! Dishoom Lands In Shoreditch

Us East London types are a parochial bunch. Friendly, but pretty parochial. So until now it’s been a right pain to venture into the tourist-ridden West End to get our fix of the buttery comfort heaven, pau bhaji, and tumblers of scrunchy ice gola. But! Hallelujah! No more. Because we’ve got own branch, appropriately bordering Banglatown and Hipsterville.

How Do You Measure Up?- Shirley Bond

That’s a nice recipe. Quite fancy knocking up a few of those snickerdoodles or a nice batch of lebkuchen for thrifty gifting…Oh damn, it’s an American book. And I can’t be faffed with all those sticks of butter and cup measures and trying to differentiate said cups from their American counterparts. Mission’Family Presents On The Cheap’, abort.

Interview with the Wigmores from Village Maid

In 1986 Anne and Andy Wigmore, along with a £40 a week incentive from the government, began their own cheese making business. Over 25 years later, Anne and Andy are still at it and not much has changed. Lara Cory spoke to the Wigmore’s about their life with cheese.

Eat Like An Italian – Catherine Fulvio

Catherine Fulvio sounds as Italian as a Vespa and tax avoidance, but she actually owns and runs the Ballyknocken House Farm and Cookery School in Wicklow, Ireland and is one of the country’s biggest culinary TV stars. She was born in Ireland as a Byrne and Ballyknocken house is her family home.

Olmeca Altos – a tequila too good to slam

Olmeca Altos is a relatively new tequila (2009) but it has the gravitas and style of a much older hombre.’Altos’ refers to the highlands of the tequila-producing region  of Jalisco, Mexico, where the best 100% agave tequilas are created and the blue agave used is hand picked. Here too the soil is unique, giving the tequilas made here a’terroir’ tast