Moorish tiles in the Casa do Alentejo, Lisbon – October 2012
Click here for a full portionEasy cheesy Brussels sprout gratin
**STOP PRESS** The Randomizer.org has spoken and chosen the winner of the Bluebasil gourmet brownies giveaway – and the winner is EMMA HOWARD! Congratulations, Emma – we will be in touch soon via e-mail to arrange for delivery of your prize! ** Over the summer, I spent a weekend in Paris and met up […]
Click here for a full portionSimon Rogan @ The Cube by Electrolux
I had been wanting to visit the Cube by Electrolux since it opened earlier this year but one way or another, travel and other commitments conspired against me. And when I did finally get a chance to go, it was in the same week as the “Bosigate” drama broke. For those of you not […]
Click here for a full portionFabulous Ferrara – Italian UNESCO district Part 2
It’s always interesting to look back after a visit and try to recall your first impressions of a city. My first impression of London was of a hot summer’s day and a teenager’s love for the tremendous buzz of Oxford Street on a Saturday afternoon. My first impression of Nice was of a maniacal taxi […]
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Red vine leaves – Alentejo, Portugal, October 2012
Click here for a full portionEasy homemade hummus with South African chakalaka spice – inspired by the 2013 McCormick Flavour Forecast
Back in 2009 when I was writing a bi-weekly column for the Food24 website, I wrote a piece called The Shock of the New, all about a document called the Flavour Forecast brought out annually by American spice company McCormick (known as the ubiquitous Schwartz spices here in the UK). The Flavour Forecast is the result […]
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