Eat Vietnam: Me and my friends gathered to eat Vietnamese food via takeaway in New Cross the other day. Our preferred option was shut but as I remarked, it didn’t matter as all the options in this area were good. So it proved. Eat Vietnam has a huge menu featuring all the Vietnamese classics with […]
Hawksmoor: Restaurants and Recipes by Huw Gott and Will Beckett: I love this book. It looks beautiful. It’s full of interesting little stories of setting out in the hospitality trade. More than that, it’s genuinely useful. It’s my new bible for cooking steak, although I rarely cook steak thick enough to do it just like […]
Two Greedy Italians eat Italy by Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo: Here is the first duty of a cookbook. It must make you want to cook its recipes. It can contain culinary insights that will change the world but it’s no damn good if nobody buys it. In this respect, I must commend Carluccio and […]
This list is not in order. But I do highly recommend drinking the shit out of all of them if you get the chance. Black Forest Cake Smoothie Stout by Untitled Art and Hubbard’s Cave: I have a real weakness for pastry stouts that genuinely have some of that sweet-savoury richness of pastry. This not […]
The first thing to know about Dubrovnik is I fell in love with the place almost on sight. Out of the window of an airplane it’s a pretty little huddle of buildings, nestling between the bright blue sea and great slopes, barren and wild-looking saved for the studs of vivid green copses decorating them. And […]
Hi all. First off, this post has next to nothing about fantasy literature. Now, for the three people remaining I was recently persuaded by my wife that we should spend a day or two out of London simply for a break in the monotony. We dickered over various places, a difficult decision as my wife […]
It’s time for a little break from fantasy. A little palate cleanser if you will. How better to cleanse one’s palate then food? Some time in January, struggling to think of new meals that might also be somewhat healthy after eight months of pretty much never eating out, my wife convinced me to try out […]
The Saturday Six thing didn’t work for me, so I’ve decided what to do is to reserve it for things I want to talk about that aren’t particularly fantasy. Starting today with a cook book review. I always find cook books are a breed that straddles a dangerous chasm, particularly today although I suspect always. […]
I’m so good at keeping a blog updated. Which is a shame, because my culinary life has been banging like a school trip in a drum shop. Top of the list is the discovery that my wife loves curry. Or at least, coconutty curry that’s not too coriander heavy. A friend cooked us the Prawn […]
Because I’m unable to concentrate on any one topic, I’ve decided to start using this blog to keep a semi-regular account of my gastronomic adventures. Well. I say adventures. I’m pretty sure going to a Chinese supermarket isn’t actually an adventure. But gods does it feel like its magic. The magic shop is one of […]
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