Are you taking your tablet to the kitchen to cook with? Then the QOOQ could be your next kitchen treat. Packed with recipes and professional videos and built to take the knocks, this dedicated tablet from France looks good. Nick Harman goes to meet the makers in Paris.
Philippa Carr’s Asda Wine Recommendations
Asda‘s resident wine expert, Philippa Carr, has been hitting the bottle for a good few years. For a thoroughly good cause, of course- bringing UK wine lovers top tipples for the 30+ years she’s been in the industry. And she’s particularly in demand over Christmas, travelling the world to sample over 450 different wines to ensure Asda‘s seasonal wine selection passes muster.
Gnaw on some chocolate this Christmas
For Christmas, the hand crafted chocolate company from Gnawfolk has released two special chocolate bars that conjur up the spirit of the festive season.
Book review: Faviken- Magnus Nilsson
Magnus Nilssen’s Faviken Magasinet may uphold the stripped-back, austere values of the simultaneously reviled and revered ‘New Nordic’ label, but ‘Faviken’ is the art-house porn of the cookbook world- and we all know there’s only so much vicarious titillation you can take before you, too, are sweaty, splattered, and very, very satisfied.
Tea and Tapas at El Pirata Detapas
Miguel Angel, head chef at El Pirata Detapas, has worked closely with Lalani & Co. the boutique tea trading company to select rare teas from India and Nepal to match the tapas on the menu. Anita cocks her little finger and takes tea.
L’Absinthe, London
They already have it good in Primrose Hill in their lovely ivory postcode, that they should also have such an excellent, well-priced, bistro is just another small injustice that life likes to challenge me with. Returning to Sarf Lundun and its grunting monsters, I felt that Absinthe had at least made my heart grow a little bit fonder.
Salvatore Calabrese’s Festive Cocktail recipes
Cocktail mastermind Salvatore Calabrese is currently proffering a selection of alarmingly gluggable Christmas Cocktails at his eponymous Mayfair bar. Over a tipple, we persuaded him to part with the recipes so you can show off your shakin’ skills this festive season.
Paul A Young’s Christmas chocolate collection
We do like Paul A Young’s chocolates. Eccentrically English yet never eschewing the exotic, he lays on a tempting menu all year round. So at Yuletide one rightfully expects great things. A bijou box containing his finest seasonal selections hitting the doormat is more welcome than any advent calendar, and, in the spirit of festive gluttony, is scoffed in its entirety that very teatime.
24 festive recipes to keep you cruising through canape season
Advent calendars- how do you eat yours? Each day’s offering hotly anticipated and lovingly savoured, or rip open every door at once and scoff the lot in a festive frenzy of shameful delight? In the best festive manner, we present you with an advent’s- worth of Christmassy canape recipes for you to ration out or binge on to your whim, drip-fed week by week.
Tobias Gorn’s Festive Whisky Recommendations
Tobias Gorn is a sommelier. bon viveur and raconteur. Toby’s pretty excited about his recent move to The Whisky Shop and about the chance to foist a few of his finest festive tipples upon Foodepedia, and we trust him totally. This is one man who truly knows how to make proceedings go with a bang.