Category Words & Pictures
Guilt-free eating out
Last time you went out for dinner, did you worry at all about whether your meal was sustainably sourced and whether the restaurant had any kind of ecological business practices? Chances are that you didn’t: the majority of us are usually too distracted choosing something good on the menu, gossiping and worrying about the price […]
Feast your eyes 1
Above: Vanilla biscuits with cinnamon and brown sugar Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to write this blog. What with trying to leave the house on time in the morning suitably attired, somehow bluffing my way through another day at the office talking into phones and writing stuff (I’m amazed I haven’t […]
Get your fruit from the man on the street
The fruit you can buy from small market stalls peppering London’s pavements might not be organic, or always sourced from UK farms, but I think it tastes so much better than what you can buy in the supermarket. These stalls aren’t flashy or posh – they’re just geezers selling fruit out of cartons at the […]
Angus and his Indian snacks
Who is this man? And what is he doing? If you happened to be at a music festival in Norfolk last weekend, you may have caught sight of this intriguing gentleman popping up next to the Birdcage Stage serving delicious Indian street snacks. His name is Angus Denoon: man of mystery and very good hats. […]
Man! Meat! Fire!
My husband N is a lapsed vegetarian, totally, utterly and slavishly committed to the cause of eating meat*. When Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s ‘Meat’ cookbook came out a year or two ago, it became N’s bedtime reading. Even though we live in a London flat, N obsesses about an idea to cure hams in our spare room. […]
Raw onion hatred
I have a question: at what point does a request for salad in one’s lunchtime sandwich constitute a desire for chopped raw onion? It confounds and frustrates me, this incessant need for it to be sprinkled in every shop-bought salad and sandwich in the UK. If you hadn’t guessed, I loathe raw onion, especially when […]
Drink like a Uruguayan
I’ve never tasted wine from Uruguay as it’s not yet widely available in this country. And since I never need any form of encouragement to go to a wine tasting, I accepted my friend C’s invitation in about 0.8 seconds flat – she was going to one at the Uruguayan London embassy (Belgrave Square – […]
Brussels: eat pig like a pig
Friends have ridiculed me for quite some time on account of the fact that I once spent £8 on an aubergine in Borough Market. So embarrassing! I’m still ashamed. I was younger, a bit overwhelmed by the whole BM experience, and handed over the money as though in a trance. When I came to my […]
The Blackbird Bakery
This tiny bakery in Crystal Palace, South London, is one of my favourite shops on this planet. I love everything about it, as I’m one of those freaks who actually runs into traffic towards a good bakery window display. When it opened several years ago, I was one of their first customers through the door […]
Surviving at Butlins
Last weekend I hoofed it down to Somerset for a dance music festival called the Bloc Weekender, which was hosted at the Butlins holiday camp in Minehead. So although I wasn’t strictly going for the official Butlins red-coats ‘n singalongs experience, I got a pretty good intro as to what holidaying there would be like. […]
Toast & Butter 