For the March 2015 issue of Waitrose Kitchen magazine, I interviewed Jose Pizarro, Ken Hom, Shelina Permalloo, Jeremy Lee and Anissa Helou about the culinary inheritance they learned from their…
It’s Sunday afternoon. Do I want to work or enjoy this? I can’t take the credit for it, unfortunately; it’s my mum’s carrot cake with butter cream cheese frosting. Recipe…
Working in Shoreditch in the past month, I have finally discovered Albion. While the restaurant/café/grocer in Shoreditch’s Boundary building (refurbished by Prescott & Conran Ltd and opened in 2008) may…
When not eating food, the next best thing to do is probably reading or writing about it. I’ve just had a great couple of weeks for new discoveries in both, so thought I would…
From this term all state secondary schools in England must comply with new nutrient-based food standards introduced by the government. Jamie Oliver’s campaign prompted the school meals “revolution”, which has resulted in a ban…
The picture at the top of my blog is one I took while snorkelling off the coast of Mallorca a few weeks ago and I’ve put it up as a reminder…
This is a pudding I got off the Waitrose website the other day and then tinkered about with. It is basically like a very thick, moist upside-down bakewell tart, as the cooked rhubarb is piled…
Wednesday – market day – is always a tense time at home. Going back to market for the first time in years this New Year, I had a real flashback…
Christmas is a time of year when everyone reaches for smoked salmon, and until recently you could shop for the smoked stuff without a care in the world. So long as your…