Salute The Pig

Length: < 1 min Saw this piece via Dezeen, of a house in Prague & the thing that caught my eye was the fried eggs on the (not a) hob ‘thing’. Floating. I have, er, questions about their cooking chops…

Length: < 1 min Whilst the name reminds me a little of the legendary CBGB music club in New York’s Bowery district, where I was fortunate enough to catch Television, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Patti and others, no, it’s not that. Not an acronym… Read More »Where in the world is CKBK?

Length: < 1 min I couldn’t immediately recall who suggested this book (illustrated by the estimable Milton Glaser) in their end-of-year-gift-list-for-people-you-actually-like. Jonathan (@demarionunn) at Vittles? Nope. Lewis Bassett and The Full English pod-cast? Not there either. Got it! It was Ben Benton of the… Read More »A cook, a book & Milton Glaser

Length: 2 mins I wanted to post a description of this one last weekend after visiting Jackson Boxer’s “Brunswick House” in Vauxhall on Saturday but the online version of the menu didn’t mention all the ingredients, so I asked him and the team… Read More »Maximum Middle-white madness

Length: < 1 min Not going to lie; if they decided to re-issue this ad at the moment, the way everyone is feeling right now, I’m pretty sure they’d run out of supplies…

Length: 4 mins Whilst thinking about a hook for this piece I was reminded of the sardine factories all along the roadside in Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” and of Lee Chong’s Grocery, where you could buy: “clothes, food both fresh and canned, liquor, tobacco,… Read More »Lisbon cannily tinned fish

Length: 2 mins The marsh is always simultaneously intriguing and menacing. Fighting my way to the seas’ edge, I’d slurry into mud-banks, tough grasses springing me awry. I cherish those dark tidal waters; that line where sky & sea blur, becoming one. Interstitial… Read More »A bike; a marsh. A tale.

Length: 3 mins I’d not known that the Aussie “sanga” was their own slang version of “sarnie” (or sandwich for the posh twats out there), until I came across mention of it in this recipe in “Chinese-ish: Home Cooking, Not Quite Authentic, 100%… Read More »Sichuan sausage sanga

Length: < 1 min A rather delicious long-form read via The New Yorker from the equally deliciously named Burkhard Bilger* on the short-order cooks who ensure that breakfasts at the various casinos and hotels on The Strip — large and small, but mainly large… Read More »The eggs of Vegas

Length: < 1 min A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal. I have some gay friends who’d 100% agree with that sentiment… The US “Sloppy Joe” was invented in pre-WW1 Cuba by Spanish cook and bar owner José “Sloppy Joe”… Read More »Mince on toast isn’t sloppy, Joe.

Length: < 1 min Not this hog… …this hog

Length: < 1 min I love ramen. But I’m a rank amateur when measured against the work and knowledge of this fresh-faced yet towering /Reddit inhabitant, called Mike Satinover. ©Evan Benner There’s a good piece here via Serious Eats that’s worth your time if… Read More »The Gospel according to The Ramen Lord

Length: 3 mins I’m currently reading this one. Recommended. Food, murder, politics, printers and Levellers. Oh, and a king called Charles who loses his head… You might not be aware from previous writings that I’m a republican, an anarchist leaning, socialist, so find… Read More »How many meals does a Coronation cost? Or, there’s lots of good Germans…

Length: 2 mins A shout-out to another new book that arrived here (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know, another one, so shoot me…) via “Big Has” aka Turkish Cypriot Hasan Semay, of Tottenham, he of the wonderfully watchable “Sunday Sessions” on YouTube… Read More »Home Has to be where the heart is.

Length: 2 mins …slippin’ down slowly, slippin’ down sideways, think I’ll sign off the dole. You can probably guess from the lyrics that we’re off to Newcastle tomorrow — for a long planned, long needed break — after more than a few months… Read More »Sittin’ in a sleazy snack bar sucking, sickly sausage rolls…

Length: 3 mins Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue I know, I’m working on a slightly snappier name for the place, so bear with me… Why a café? Well, they serve food there. And this is a blog all about food, no? But… Read More »Revolution; down at the old anarcho-syndicalist café

Length: 2 mins On Selling England, By The Pound… The “prog rock” kids just loved them some Genesis. But that eponymous album of 1973 never rocked my boat. I mean, come on, how could it, against belters from Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Al Green,… Read More »Eating from the rich man’s table?

Length: < 1 min I saw this photo and — just for a moment — thought it was a Spanish or Southern US ham maybe. In fact it’s Jinwa Ham from the Lo Sam Yeung Chinese Food Shop. So that’s a new rabbit hole… Read More »Remind you of anything?

Length: < 1 min Long, long, long ago, back when the Earth was young & the Old Gods still walked the land, there was a caff. A pretty rubbish caff, all of the bad connotations behind the words “greasy spoon” and, in memory, none… Read More »Old caffs

Length: < 1 min Has anything actually changed in the past 200 years?