Length: < 1 min No, not the truly execrable Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE, purveyor of perverted pablum pop pap, but instead, another ex-Brit, Nick Solares of Eater magazine, a similar long-time resident of NY but in this show, back over here in his native… Read More »“I’m an Englishman in New York”…
Length: < 1 min …in a rather charming oil painting from Amsterdam’s Rijks Museum… …and some great charcuterie displays, courtesy Sean Brock’s Husk team…
Length: 5 mins The people of the Basque country call it Euskal Heria or ‘the Country of Euskara’. They, the people, belong to their land and their language. Their soul is defined by these two things. Without both, they aren’t Basque. If they lose… Read More »Industry, oaks, food and the earth:
Length: < 1 min Yes, you can. There’s “No More Excuses” people… I’ve talked before here about the fantastic work this chef is doing to feed the homeless and the poor in newly setup community kitchens based around using waste food. There’s now a… Read More »Can you help maestro Massimo Bottura?
Length: 3 mins Tired maybe, sweaty sure, foot-sore, some under-utilised muscles complaining about unexpected use, pale Northern European skin sun reddened, yes, all those. But not dirty. Unlike the surface of this wonderfully expressive old face*; that of a man whose whole life… Read More »Down (but not dirty) in Bilbao
Length: < 1 min I said this yesterday, then everyone, inc. @Francisjmallman, jumps on the band-wagon, saying the very same thing in this interview from The London Evening Standard. “I really believe that the only reason to sit down and have delicious food is to have conversations… Read More »Dining is about friends, not food
Length: 4 mins Nope, not the The Hobbit. That’s just being silly. @Val_Littlewood and I agreed during the course of this latest trip to two of the most important cities of the Basque Country that we’re really just not cut out for the excessive… Read More »Philistines storm Bilbao, Donostia & munch on Euskal Txerria
Length: < 1 min Which pretty much sums up the Basque trip for @Val_Littlewood and I…
Length: < 1 min Fish For Thought supplied a dozen of their very finest Cornish (Pacific) oysters, which I fought my way into this weekend*. From the rear end. No sniggering at the back please! Which makes me a “butt shucker” rather than a “bill shucker”… Read More »I’m a butt-shucker. There, I said it.
Length: < 1 min More on this delight (and many others) in a much longer post later this week. And that isn’t me in the background. Just in case you were wondering…
Length: 3 mins No, not the faddie “must have” addition seen on some chef’s dishes (yeah, you know who you are *…) whilst, at the same time, being touted by moronic, money grabbing, scientifically illiterate, “celebrities” (is there a Venn diagram intersection here?)… Read More »Pollan on food?
Length: 2 mins …is a helluva on point mission statement from @TooGoodToGo_UK . One I’m 100% behind. Started in Denmark and since expanded to parts of England — pleased to see that they’re already close to us in Cambridge & Peterborough — they now have… Read More »Eat well, save money, save the planet…
Length: 4 mins The food system is broken. Food is not a commodity. Cheap shouldn’t be king – cheap has a price; for humans, animals & the environment. @martharoberts I keep banging on this same drum, sounding out that how the food we… Read More »Eating sustainably, ethically, responsibly, humanely…
Length: 3 mins I recently bought another new skillet. This one is a 15″ monster to go alongside the smaller 10″ version I’d bought last year. There’s probably no kitchen utensil finer than this for searing and browning stuff — unless you have a… Read More »Let’s skillet kids
Length: < 1 min HT to @400degreesoven for this one. And stop that childish sniggering at the back please…
Length: 3 mins Along with “Them!“ — a cautionary tale about giant irradiated ants — which was Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing film of 1954 — the curiously cast “Five“ (1951) and the original (and best) Japanese “Godzilla” (Gojira) from 1954, us Brits also managed… Read More »“Atom Bomb Baby”? Glow-in-the-dark boars…
Length: < 1 min Yes; that’s mine. There are days when I don’t eat any pig products at all. Not many of these days still, I admit but equally, it’s not all about pork at every meal. I guess — without wishing to sound… Read More »A diet that ISN’T 100% pork?
Length: 5 mins Pretty sure Val @val_littlewood was very close to slitting my throat with any weapon she could lay her hands on; even a blunt, rusty spoon, as I incessantly ‘sang’ this, whilst driving South-Western US highways … And I now have that Neil… Read More »Find some fried eggs and country ham?
Length: 4 mins No? No? How about OXO then? Yeah, OK, thought you’d all know that name. Anyone able to tell me the connection between the two? And how this building fits in? OK, let’s start with the Liebig Extract of Meat Company shall… Read More »You all remember the Liebig Extract of Meat Company don’t you?
Length: < 1 min @butchr_net coincidentally wrote “A twist of the knife…” just before this post. Read it. They’re always good value pieces. But if you’re not yet 100% sure quite which knife is best used for which task, the infographic below is a… Read More »Slice like a superstar?
