a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in food on Oct 26th, 2009
You’ll find here my reviews of cookery and food-related books. I like to read books that follow the tradition of ‘traveleating’, so if you like reading my blog, you’ll hopefully like these! Most of the reviews also include a recipe that I’ve replicated from the books.
Spice Market by Jane Lawson – a [...]
Posted in cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, recipe, vegetarian on Aug 20th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in London, awards, cookery, cookery books, cooking, dining out, food, 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 area of [...]
Posted in Spanish, cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, recipe, tapas, traveleating on Jul 25th, 2009
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. [...]
Posted in Hunan, Japanese, London, Michelin star, Taiwanese, awards, cookery, cookery books, cooking, dim sum, dining out, food, pizza, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jun 30th, 2009
I suppose I had better start with the Guild of Food Writers 2009 Awards party, which I attended last Thursday as a shortlistee for the New Media category. I didn’t win, but I did get the opportunity to meet some fantastic people, including my two ‘rivals’ for the New Media award, Tim Hayward from the [...]
