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...
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...
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...
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.
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)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
• A Subway shop will open on top of a crane at the Freedom Tower construction site to serve hungry workers. [ NYP ] • An antitrust investigator is looking into New York's dairy farmers to find out why, despite unusually low milk payments, retail milk prices have barely fallen. [ NYP ] • André Balazs is modeling in ads for Brioni. [ NYP ] • The Food and Drug Administration...
I was just really very hungry. (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I’m in the New York area at the moment, doing some family things, required government-oriented paperwork and so on. Whenever I’m here I do like to treat myself to at least one interesting restaurant meal. So, this time around I thought of going to Per Se, the famed Thomas Keller establishment. I’ve never been to a Thomas Keller establishment. I went to their pretty but so user-unfriendly...
Pig Pig's Corner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Reviewed by The Wild Boar Firstly a disclaimer: we ate this meal over a year ago before I started writing reviews and the PigPig got her little hands on a DSLR, so the menu has changed (a bit) and it may not be entirely accurate (but I do try to make sure it’s as best as I remember it). After eating at the other 3* restaurant next door, we both thought it’ll be nice to follow up with this...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• Following news of his expansion to Singapore, Daniel Boulud will open a Bar Boulud bistro in London next year within the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park. Adam Tihany is designing the space and Heston Blumenthal will also join the hotel. [ Bloomberg ] • Also in England, North Yorkshire's Michelin-starred restaurant the Starr Inn shuttered this week after 80 people fell ill. Authorities found...
The Boston Foodie (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
We stopped in at the Rising Star Chefs Boston 2009 Gala and Awards Ceremony this week and were in awe of the talented Chefs that we have here in Boston. The Rising Star awards is sponsored by Starchefs.com an online magazine for food industry insiders and a great website to learn more about your favorite Chefs, up-and-coming, hot new talent and even exclusive food industry job listings. There were...
BarfBlog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The Fat Duck sickened 529 customers with norovirus , adopted a ridiculous PR strategy, and continues to blame others even though employees were working sick. The local council decided not to prosecute. The Llay Fish Bar , thought to be the source of an E. coli O157 outbreak that sickened four including a new mother left in a coma, will be prosecuted by the Wrexham Council. It’s like television...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
• McDonald's is closing all of its Iceland stores because the country's financial crisis has made operating there too expensive. [ NYT ] • The Brooklyn Brewery recently received $80,000 in state funds to start their Williamsburg expansion. [ NYP ] • At new Crown Heights coffee shop the Pulp and the Bean, everything from the produce to the cups comes from Brooklyn. [ NYDN ] • Bobby...
BarfBlog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The Telegraph reports this morning that Heston Blumenthal and the Fat Duck restaurant – home to 529 cases of norovirus earlier this year – will not face criminal charges despite failures in reporting illness and what appears to be an overall lack of food safety awareness. Windsor and Maidenhead Council said that although the restaurant could have taken greater steps to combat the norovirus...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
What it is: Lych Gate Cottage sits between two of Bray’s most famous eateries. It is next door to Heston Blumenthal’s Hinds Head gastropub (Prince Philip had his stag party on the premises in 1947) and on the same road as his flagship restaurant, The Fat Duck, open again after a recent health scare. Believed to be 500 years old, the one-bedroom cottage has a wood-burning stove and exposed...
Lussorian (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
According to a recent survey 196 million cups of tea are reported to be drunk every day in the UK alone and there is no shortage of varieties to choose from. At the higher end of the market is Jing - a young and innovative company that now counts Harrods, the Fat Duck and Gordon Ramsay amongst his customers. It claims to offers definitive examples of Asia’s greatest teas, skillfully hand-processed...
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