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Category Archives: Lenten traditions
This Lent’s Seeming +40 Days
I am not a man alone in feeling the Lent just past seemed to run for more than 40 days and nights. Friends who denied themselves of their favourite indulgences were unanimous in remarking Lent 2013 seemed longer and so harder … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Basilicata, Best Pasta, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cocktails, Dry Martini, IGP, Lenten traditions, Real Italy
Tagged 40 Days Fasting, Carre d'Agneau, Chabichou, Chaource, Confits for Cheese, Fasoldo, Fried Quail Eggs, Gallucci & Gilmour, Gorgonzola Dolce, IGP Fagioli di Sarconi, Lent, Lindt Conching, Lindt Easter Bunnies, Lucania, Martini Cocktail, Mosto, New York University, Peppe Zullo, Prof Marion Nestle, Puglia, Quince Confit from Lucullus, Turkish Honey
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SIA 2012 will be Ferrets to Foie Gras, Fine Foods and All
Excitement builds across France this week, as well as for this writer - I’m like a 5 year old those few days before Christmas Eve. Why? Because we are a few days off the opening of the ‘grande spectacle’ that is the 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Agrumes, Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassserie Lipp, Bread, Capon, Chicken, Fish, Foie Gras, Food Influencers, Food Marketeers, Food travel, French Markets, French supermarkets, Graisse d'oie and Confit de Canard, Guinea Fowl, Label Rouge, Latest Trends, Lenten traditions, No Compromise Shopping, Oysters and Shellfish, Pigeoneau, Poulet, Poulet de Gournay, Poulet Fermier, Simple Food, South West French Cuisine, supermarkets, Terroir, The Food Business, Veal, Wild Food, Wild Funghi, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Basse-Cour Farming, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chapons, Concours General, Ducks & Geese, Paris, Porte de Versailles, Poulets Fermiers, Rare Breeds, Salon des Fromages, Salon International de l'Agricole, SIA 2012
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Shurely Shome Mishake?
Hot Cross Buns without their Cross. Shome Mishake Shurely? Or is it PC gone made again? A Hot X Bun with a X is a Tea Cake by any other name – surely? Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food Scams, Lenten traditions, No Compromise Shopping, supermarkets
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, British Food retailers, British supermarkets, Easter, Easter Sunday, English Tea Cake, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Good Friday, Hot Cross Bun, No compromise shopping
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Carne Vale: Meat Go Away
Ash Wednesday today and Carnival has reached its almighty crescendo – Venice over the past two weeks would have been awash with tourists and a few exclusive masked balls and plenty excess. Germans everywhere went crazy on beer dressed in clown suits and coloured … Continue reading