a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Japan, Japanese, cookery, cooking, meat, recipe, traveleating on Nov 12th, 2009
Buta no shogayaki or Japanese pan-fried sliced pork with ginger sauce is a classic dish that I used to eat regularly when I was younger. While I would be busy making sixteen kilos of tonkatsu for the LSE Japan Society annual party every year, my Japanese friend would make the same amount of buta no [...]
Posted in Italian, Italy, Tuscan, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, meat, pasta, recipe, traveleating on May 8th, 2009
I was excited to receive cookery book The Real Flavour of Tuscany from Quadrille Publishing to review. Books that take time to explore the culture and history of food appeal to me far more than those that consist of no more than a collection of recipes grouped into ’starters’, ‘mains’ and ‘puddings’. This one, de [...]
Posted in London, dining out, food, meat, restaurant review, restaurants, steakhouse, traveleating on Apr 26th, 2009
I’m partial to a thick, juicy steak. Having spent my childhood years in Germany, I grew up on steak and even had it for breakfast most Sundays when my parents took me to the nearby American Club. However, living with a vegetarian who’s also in charge of the kitchen makes life as a carnivore a [...]
Posted in London, Pakistani, dining out, food, meat, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 28th, 2009
Background:
Fellow food bloggers rave about this Pakistani Punjabi restaurant in Whitechapel, which has been around for over 30 years. So I finally decided to drag myself over to East London, in fact twice in the last month, to see what all the fuss was about. The first visit was with my little brother, the second [...]
Posted in Indian, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, meat, recipe, traveleating on Mar 7th, 2009
Regular readers will know that I’ve been a big fan of food writer Manju Malhi ever since attending her cookery workshop at Books for Cooks last year. I learned some simple Indian dishes from her that I’ve been making regularly. Manju recently sent me a copy of her Easy Indian cookbook and this is the [...]
