I love travelling to different countries and tittering at all the amusingly-titled food packaging – ‘Bimbo’ bread, ‘Fart’ candy bars, ‘Crap’s’ chocolate etc. (I’m so mature). I’m also obsessed with finding out what strange food habits other nationalities have. We Brits have some really poor food heritage that make foreigners cringe: Marmite, SPAM, stinky hot […]

I’ve just returned from a fortnight in Thailand, where I made sure I did a lot of grazing. After all, isn’t that what all the best holidays are about? So, kicking off with an afternoon cookery course in Bangkok at the Baipai Thai Cooking School, I made it my mission to get under the skin […]

My friend S who lives in Brighton has an even tinier kitchen than me. He has put up with its diminutive size for about eight years and has finally had enough: he’ll soon be moving house. I’m so very jealous (in advance) of his bigger future kitchen. Over the years, even though his current cooking […]

I often like to take little snaps of foodie things that have made me content or just laugh out loud. Just quick pix with my crappy mobile phone. They don’t really merit a whole blog post on their own, but, being a bit of a food nerd, I think they’re worth a quick mention. On […]

Yesterday I had a day where everything went so wrong in the kitchen that I wanted to stab a fork in somebody’s eye. I was taken over with Kitchen Rage. My blog is called Tales of the Tiny Kitchen because that’s what I have: my kitchen is minuscule, and the problem is worsened because my […]

My poor friend K was unlucky enough to be admitted to Cambridge’s Addenbrookes Hospital recently for an op, and this is what they fed her (she was lucky to escape with her life, quite frankly): Cheese pie – note the luminosity of the radioactive cheese and powdery mash: Strawberry jelly: or is it ectoplasm retrieved […]

I recently experienced a rain-drenched week on the Isle of Skye, North-West Scotland. When the isle wasn’t being lashed with horizontal rain and gales, the sun occasionally peeped out and lit up the landscape, suffusing the harsh rocky crags of the hills and blue lochs in a golden shimmering light. We spent a fair portion […]

I am quite often inspired to have a foodie rant. So here goes my first proper ‘harrumph’ on the blog. The cake above is Exhibit A – a selection of slices of banana and chocolate cake purchased from Del Aziz in Bermondsey Square, London. Nothing wrong with the cakes as such, but the lady who […]