When I was still a teenager, the Pet Shop Boys famously sang about East end boys and West end girls. I had never been to London and I had no idea what the difference might be (other than that they clearly came from opposing compass points!) but I certainly got the sense that the West […]
Click here for a full portionL’Atelier de Joel Robuchon London revisited [CLOSED]
As soon as people hear I have a food blog, one of the first questions they ask me is “so what’s your favourite restaurant in London?”. The question is almost always followed by an embarrassed silence as I rack my brain to come up with somewhere that has at least a whiff of the hip, […]
Click here for a full portionSensationally simple beef ragu
Love-hate relationships – we all have them. Some of us have them with food, with religion, or with the gym. I know people who have love-hate relationships with their family members, their pets, or even themselves. People love and hate their jobs, their country’s government, their exes and their kids. These past few weeks, the […]
Click here for a full portionFood photography & styling workshop – Vienna, 17-18 April 2015
Are you a keen traveller who loves to record your foodie adventures at restaurants and markets on camera? Or a food blogger who is frustrated by having an idea of the photos you want to take but never being able to capture the look you are after? Or maybe you are looking to up […]
Click here for a full portionLaunching the 2015 Bernard Loiseau Festival Culinare with Constance Hotels
Unlike many teenagers, Bernard Loiseau knew from an early age what he wanted to do with his life, and that was cook. At an age when other teenage boys are chasing girls and playing football, he was already an apprentice at the renowned La Maison Troisgros, a restaurant that has had three Michelin stars […]
Click here for a full portionHalloumi, roasted grape & pecan salad
So – 2015! How on earth did that happen? My father once told me that the older he got, the more he tended not to remember individual years but rather just decades – and I am beginning to understand what he meant. The 1980s were high school and university; the 1990s were postgrad and the start […]
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