It’s the glorious twelfth! If you’ve bagged a grouse here’s two great recipes to make sure you do your bird proud. One from Boisdales and one from Charlottes
The Drift, Heron Tower, London
The entrance to Drift is around the side of the Heron Tower, but it’s worth going into the main reception to ‘ask directions’ just to stare in awe at the fish tank. In fact it’s not so much a tank as Europe’s largest privately owned aquarium. It’s so massive you expect a heavily tied up James Bond to suddenly drop into it, and then a shark to appear looking peckish.
Go for grouse
Looking for somewhere to bag your first grouse of the season? Well shoulder your over and under, pull up your yellow leggings and take aim at these fine sporting establishments
10 of the best cookery courses for kids
Among all the courses and activities for young people there are a growing number of cookery courses and schools for children popping up all over the UK. These courses are usually hands-on, a little bit messy and, crucially, lots of fun with cookery parties proving to be popular and offshoots running in schools, homes and village halls.
Hamilton’s Bar and Kitchen, Edinburgh
Hamilton’s culinary philosophy is driven by a desire to please using organic, fair trade and local suppliers and their promise of offering ‘good, honest dishes made with quality ingredients where the person cooking them loves food and doesn’t take themselves too seriously” is being delivered in spades.
Bloom: An Introduction To Gin For Women
Bloom is a premium new gin from master distiller Joanne Moore with its tones of chamomile and honeysuckle Bloom creates a sweet subtle taste perfect for enticing the gin virgin.
Fox’s launch Mini Melts
These delicious new biscuits, one bite versions of the grown-up Fox’s Melts, are ideal for sharing. Apparently, says Joanna Biddolph after eating the whole pack herself.
Tuck into a tasty day out at this year’s Stratford Food Festival
For those of you for whom Stratford-upon-Avon summons up visions of hags around a cauldron […]
Looking to clean up. Thomas Keller brings The French Laundry to London
A ‘pop up restaurant (yes, yawn, another) it will be called ‘The French Laundry at Harrods” but we hope the cooking will have a bit more imagination than that. It should do, Keller has a fine reputation at his home restaurant (he lives next door) which he started in 1994.
Keda Black’s The Illustrated Student Cookbook
There’s nothing worse than coming home to see that your flatmate has been cooking. And that he has dirtied every single piece of kitchen equipment you own in the process. You wonder why he even tried in the first place — you’ve never seen the kid do anything beyond nuking some leftover curry before, so why now? Maybe it’s because he has got himself a copy of Keda Black’s The Illustrated Student Cookbook. Inside are 35 recipes which require limited cooking equipment — a toaster, oven, microwave, and hotplate, and a Survival Kit of essential kitchen tools.