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The Belly Rules The Mind (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Well, hello there. Today, I went to the local market and bought my fruit and veg for the next week or so and then took a trip to my butchers and picked up a load of meat. My butcher is in Stourbridge and sells top quality meat at very reasonable prices.. A winning combination, obviously. Anyhoo, the weather was thoroughly miserable today. The rain was more like some kind of eerie mist straight out...
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Thring for Your Supper (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Bit of a celebration this week: I was published in print for the first time. Well, if you don't count school magazine (restaurant reviews), university paper (ditto) and some journo work experience, unaccountably overlooked for the Pulitzer. But the inaugural issue of Fire and Knives - 'new writing for food lovers' - just trundled off the press, and I've held my copy and smelled the pulp, glue
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Majikthise (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Hats off to a blogger in the Netherlands who is cooking his way through Heston Blumenthal's bible of molecular gastronomy, the Fat Duck Cookbook. He's documenting his culinary odyssey at The Big Fat Undertaking. One of the early recipes he...
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Dine Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Head out (to your kitchen) for a curry Why is it we always feel that we have to go out to get a delicious, authentic-tasting curry? Whether it’s the neighbourhood Indian restaurant that knows your favourite dish by memory or the local curry house that you have on speed dial, there’s something that keeps you from [...]
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Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Anyone who spends any time researching hotels and restaurants will be familiar with Relais & Châteaux . Established in France in 1954, Relais & Châteaux is a global association of outstanding establishments with a truly unique character. It is a family of independent hoteliers and top chefs from all over the world who share a passion for and commitment to the very highest levels...
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Dine Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Stop, Look and Listen – Traffic Cocktail Bar pulls into Kensington Traffic is a new chic and contemporary bar for the Kensington and Chelsea’s drinking set, in the recently launched Crowne Plaza Kensington hotel. With imaginative cocktails and a wonderful selection of wines and beers, this bar offers a unique destination for the discerning. The [...]
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Gastroville (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I am off to Japan. It is a trip I have been looking forward to for some time. We have a very interesting schedule. I have many small projects I while I am there. One of them is to find out how important the provenance of fish is in Japan. I will be blogging when [...]
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Gastroville (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I am difficult with my beef. When in restaurants, I tried for a long time to explain in detail how I wanted it cooked, but with little success. I suppose a stressed chef hit by 40 or more covers doesn’t have the time to listen to a maitre d´ who explains what the pain in [...]
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Thring for Your Supper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sketch's website. A glimpse into madness. Photo: SketchMy latest piece for iStarvin.com is on infuriating restaurant websites, with their horrible music, pointless Flash, clunky graphics and other malignant quirks.Click here to read it.
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Dine Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Feast with London’s Top Chefs at Christmas Food Extravaganza – Taste of Christmas in association with Waitrose – 4th-6th December Who could say no to three wonderfully festive days of eating, drinking and merriment under the mistletoe? Certainly not London’s best chefs. This year, Taste of Christmas, the most stylish foodie event of the festive season, [...]
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Thring for Your Supper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
'Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup.' Photo: FlickrAfter Giles Coren's tweet yesterday about Seven Park Place charging him twice, I've written something for Word of Mouth on complaining in restaurants.Click here to read it.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
HANDS up how many of you have felt intimidated when picking wine in a posh restaurant?
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The Moment (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Why did I think I could take Heston Blumenthal to lunch at Shopsin's and get away with it? The brilliant British chef behind the Fat Duck and the Hinds Head in Bray - just inked to open in the London Mandarin Oriental next fall with an Adam Tihany-designed space serving English food on a more historical scale - was in town on his way back from Venezuela, where he demonstrated his flaming sorbet.
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Bangkok Mafia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
There is currently a 45% discount on this at Amazon. No, it’s not a hint for Christmas, I don’t cook jack in the kitchen & could probably burn water. The Fat Duck Cookbook (Hardcover)
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