Posted in cookery, cooking, dining out, food, London, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Sep 17th, 2009
World Foodie Guide is 2 years old today! It’s been a tremendously satisfying and food-filled journey, and I wouldn’t have made it this far without your support and encouragement, so thank you all for reading my blog. I’ve learned so much from everyone and have really appreciated all your suggestions, thoughts and ideas. To mark [...]
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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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I’ve been eating out rather too much lately and suffering the consequences. The waistline has expanded, while the wallet has contracted. On the other hand, the kitchen cupboards are so well stocked that the husband and I could survive a Siberian winter. So after recently booking a ‘traveleating‘ trip to Japan in November, I decided [...]
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