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Camionettes Come Laden with Promises
Ask yourself where in Europe are food markets at their strongest and part of the answer is trucks as much as treats. The French reign supreme with their ingeniously constructed Camionettes du Marchés. The closest we might get are the traditional silver and … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chicken, Coffee, Food Marketeers, Food travel, French Markets, French Regional Foods, Poulet Fermier, Poulet Fermiers, Real Italy, supermarkets
Tagged 'In Search of TASTE' Magazine, Blue Collar Gastronauts, Boucherie Chevaline, Camionettes du Marche, Charcuterie, Choucroute, Citroen Tye H, Drome-Provencale, Etretat, French Markets, Gonneville-le-Mallet, Hamburg Fischmarkt, Joy Davies, Le Laitier, Liguria, Musee du Camion, No compromise shopping, Nyons, Panhard Dyna Van K, Penny Averill, Peugeot D4A, Piaggio Ape, Poulets Roti, Seine-Maritime, South Brittany, Transformers
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Going Undercover Dining in Hoxton
A morning of delight and discovery as I take a route across London on a new-to-me train through smart clean stations – is this really London I ask myself. Get off at Hoxton Station, through the empty barriers and, in less … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, American Dishes, Baccala, Coffee, Comforting Foods, London Dining, New Chefs, Perfect Eggs, Phoney Cooking, Salad, Salad and Digestion, Salt Cod
Tagged 'In Search of TASTE' Magazine, Andy Lynes, Brandade, Chef James Ferguson, Fergus Henderson, Herdwick Lamb, Kohlrabi, Menu de Marche, Metro Newspaper, Onglet, Panna Cotta, Picpoul de Pinet, Polenta Cake with Blood Orange, Rochelle Canteen, St John Bakery, The Beagle in Hoxton
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Liguria: Plotkin’s Paradise, Panizza’s Pesto
Paradise is a word never to be employed lightly, it being too special to be devalued by mis-use. I’ve been in touch with a man who uses the ‘paradise’ word with every last gram of passion and meaning that it is due - and I … Continue reading
Posted in Basil, Best Pasta, Coffee, DOP, DOP Basilico Genovese, Food travel, Genoa, Il Genovese Restaurant, Ligurian, Memories, Mercato Orientale, Pesto alla Genovese, Pesto alla Genovese, Real Italy, Terroir, Veal, Vitellone
Tagged 'Il Genovese' on Via Galata, 'Recipes from Paradise', Basil, Brown and Company, Byron, Camogli, Charles Dickens, Cinqueterre, DH Lawrence, DOP Basil, Fred Plotkin, La Spezia, Little, M&S Deli's, Mercato Orientale, Pesato alla Genovese, Pesto Rossi, Roberto Panizza, Shelley, The Gulf of Poets
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What Bresse Farmers have with Coffee
It’s 06h00 in the Salle de la Grenette in Louhans – pitch black outside and temperature hovering around 0°C. The street outside is lined left and right with little camionettes, most white (aren’t they always) and many proudly displaying the distinctive ‘bleu, blanc, … Continue reading
Posted in AOC, Coffee, Coffee, French Markets, French Regional Foods, Guinea Fowl, Poulet, Poulet Fermier
Tagged AOC Poulet de Bresse, Bourgogne Tourisme, Choux Buns, Corniotte, Janine Trotereau, L'Independent de Louhans, La Fete des Corniottes, Les Corniotes de l'Ascension, Les Corniottes de Louhans, Les Glorieuses de Bresse, Louhans-Chateaurenard, Mother's Day, Salle de la Grenette, Talmouse
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Kippers and Tea in Le Treport
I love kippers – fresh landed herrings cured (split from head to tail, salted and cold smoked) in the traditional way on ‘tenterhooks’. They are so much a part of both the English culinary culture and the language – as the terms ‘to be kippered’ … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Coffee, Curing and Smoking, French supermarkets, Oysters and Shellfish, Smoked Fish, The Food Business
Tagged A Kipper with my Tea, Alan Davidson, Anthony Hopkins, Boulogne Smokeries, Cooking Kippers, Craster Kippers, Curing by Salting and Cold Smoking, Irish Sea, Isle of Man TT Races, Kippering, Kippers, Manx Kippers, Mount Snowdon, Red Indian Motorbikes, Sir Laurence Olivier, Tenterhooks, The Brighton Pullman, To be Kippered
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Marco’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’ at 33
There’s one thing about interviewing a superstar; there’s quite another when you discover such acreage of common ground it gets as scary as it is exciting. So I stood back, drew breath and took inspiration from what I knew and … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Coffee, Food Influencers, Great Chefs, Gull's Eggs, London Dining, New Chefs, Simple Food, Wild Food
Tagged 'Blonde on Blonde', Anthony Blake, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bob Dylan, Channel 5, Charles Barrier, Chef's Tea, Chris Corbyn & Jeremy King, Ferdinand Point, French Foreign Legion, Great Chefs of France, Gull's Eggs, Jacques Pic, Marco Pierre White, Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars, Paul Bocuse, Plover's Eggs, Prosecco, Quentin Crewe, The Caernavon Arms, The Caernavon Arms Highclere, The Wolseley, Troigros Brothers, Wheeler's of St James
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Proust’s Legacy makes us all Beneficiaries
As a serious 19th century writer, Marcel Proust possibly did more for the populace for cake than he did with his books. Those few opening lines about how nibbling at a madeleine transported him almost immediately back to a happy childhood at his grandmother’s house in Cabourg (Normandy) … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Coffee, Food travel, French Markets, French supermarkets, Memories
Tagged Andre Gide, Benedictine, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cabourg, Cafe au Lait, Calvados, Caramel Beurre Sale, Cidre, Corot, ENO, Etretat, Francis Bacon, Genovese Sponge, Guy de Maupassant, James Joyce, John Minihan, Les Madeleines de Commercy, Louis XV, Madeleines, Marcel Proust, Monet, Offenbach, Oscar Wilde, Pissarro, Samuel Beckett, Tales of Hoffmann, William Burroughs
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