A lot of food brands these days like to advertise with the slogan ‘XYZ the […]
No Place Like Home. Rowley Leigh
Slightly cheaply printed, and with the odd typo creeping in, this is not a book for the coffee table. Instead, petit, precise and packed with sensible classics it’s a book the true home chef can turn to again and again for reliable recipes that will always hit the spot.
Vivek Singh opens Cinnamon Soho
‘All Balls!’ screams the menu. But it’s not. In fact, it never is with Vivek Singh, whose culinary rambles from continent to continent deliver time after time. Cinnamon Soho is his shiny new venue- bringing Singh’s trademark collision of Indian flavours and European sensibilities to West End diners.
Manna from Panama
The canal yes, the hat, maybe, but the food? Panama is not well known for […]
Galvin’s Demoiselle at Harrods
87-135 Brompton Road, London SW1X 7XL www.harrods.com George has been making coffees at Harrod’s for […]
Salter’s Simnel Cake Recipe
If you are getting a little bored with all the same old chocolate eggs every year, why not try something different this year and bake a cake that is synonymous with Easter? Simnel Cake is a delicious fruity cake, covered and filled with marzipan.
Simnel Cake from Harrod’s
Simnel Cake is an Easter time fruit cake, made with lemon, dried fruits and peel, treacle and marzipan. It turns out that an interesting mythology has formed around this ancient fruity fare.
The Jugged Hare, Clerkenwell
49 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SA www.thejuggedhare.com It’s become a regular event on the food […]
Restaurant review- Carom at Meza
We’re treated like so many Shahs from the off, which is always nice. A table laden with cocktails greets us- with the appropriately-monikered Maharaja Fizz amongst their number. More often than not, ‘fusion’ and ‘cocktail’ are two words that have no business being in the same room, let alone sharing glass space. Curry leaves? Fruit chutney? You sure?
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Like no other jilted capital Istanbul engulfs visitors with its razzled charms, the musk of rose petal tinged with rancid fish-heads the prelude to your renewed affections. Important things have happened in this city of minarets; here the past isn’t so much a passive resident but a restless dervish whirling down the backstreets off Taxsim square, where men smoke the hookah and sip coffee as thick and loamy as compost.