The text on the jacket of gorgeous cookery book Snowflakes and Schnapps by Sydney chef turned publisher Jane Lawson describes it as ‘a culinary journey though the magnificent cold-climate cuisines of the snow-cloaked regions of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe…from the seaside towns of Scandinavia, to the Alpine villages of Austria, from the ski fields [...]
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As you may know, I’m always on Twitter. So when food writer and allotmentista (aka allotment grower) Celia Brooks Brown tweeted the other day asking for people to help test some recipes for her upcoming cookery book, I volunteered my services. She’d recently quoted one of my tweets in her New Urban Farmer column in [...]
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Posted in China, Chinese, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, Hunan, recipe, Sichuan, traveleating on Aug 14th, 2009
My first encounter with food writer Fuchsia Dunlop was at a British Museum talk on Chinese food last year. I didn’t stay behind to chat with her, but was impressed with her opinions on the importance of food in Chinese culture. We were briefly introduced at a Ferran Adrià talk last November, and more recently [...]
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Posted in awards, cookery, cookery books, cooking, dining out, food, London, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jul 31st, 2009
The monthly summary for July and it’s been another hectic few weeks! I was most flattered and surprised when BBC Olive magazine gave me a kind mention in the August issue: ‘worldfoodieguide.com has an amazing array of restaurant reviews and she is very fair and straight with her comments. Particularly useful for Chinese/Asian venues, her [...]
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Quadrille Publishing sent me a review copy of Modern Spanish Cooking by Sam and Eddie Hart a long time ago, but I’ve only just recently had a chance to go through it. I only wish I’d read it a lot sooner, as Post-it notes now mark most of the recipes that I’d like to try. [...]
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