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Category Archives: Onions
Deh-Ta Hsiung – The Quiet Revolutionary
When Deh-Ta Hsiung walked down the gangway of the P&O SS ‘Corfu’ and came ashore at Tilbury on Boxing Day in 1949, he was young man arriving in the right place at the right time. He was just 17 and that time … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Burgundy, Chicken, Classic Rice Dishes, Dim-Sum, Fish, Food Influencers, Foraging, Game, Ginger, London Dining, Memories, Onions, Pork, Real Chinese Cooking, Rice, Traditions at Table, Vinegars, Wines
Tagged 'Lady Precious Stream', Ballymaloe Co Cork, Bean Sprouts, Chinatowns, Cognac, Deh-Ta Hsiung, Dim-Sum, Dylan Thomas, Festival of Britain, Kai-Lu Hsiung, Ken Hom, Ken Lo, Oxford, Peking, Rice Wine, Ridley Scott, Royal College of Art, Sherry & Port, Shih I Hsiung, Slade Art School
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Mobile Speck Knodel & Strudel
After 15 or more years working in high pressure restaurant kitchens, with their long hours and back-to-back shifts, Franz Schinagl knew he had to break free from his last posting as chef at Asia de Cuba. “As exciting as it was, I became so thin and … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Austrian Cooking, Beef, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bread, Curing and Smoking, Good Potatoes, Onions, Pork, Rare Roast Sirloin, Salad, Simple Food, Slicing Machine, Stocks and Stock Making, Veal, Wines
Tagged Advantage Austria, Apples, Asparagus - white or green, Austrian Wine, Bermondsey, Bodo's Schloss, Chef Karl Eschlboek, Fergus Henderson, Franz Schinagl, Knodel, Marco Steiner, Nuernberger Sausages, Oma's, Raisins, Schnitzel, Speck Mobile, St John Bakery, Stroh Rum, Strudel
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Tripe’s neither Tripe nor Trite
Swallow hard, get over your fear of wobbly foods and take a forkfull of tripe. Prepared as they do across Europe, tripe only ever disappoints if the cook is a lightweight. Tripes à la mode de Caen is a mainstay of French … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Callos, Chicken, Dim-Sum, Genoa, Il Genovese Restaurant, Offal, Onions, Pesto alla Genovese, Poulet Fermier, Real Italy, Tripe, Trippe
Tagged 'French Provincial Cooking' by Elizabeth David, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Callos, Cidre de Normandie, Cork City, Genoa, GM-Free Chickens, il Genovese, Oxford Food Symposium, Pesto alla Genovese, Pesto Rossi, Poulet Fermier, Poulet Noir, Roberto Panizza, Roy Shipperbottom, Seasonal Produce, Sofrito, Tripas, Tripe, Tripes a la mode de Caen, Trippa, Trippe
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The Friday Stockdish
How our tastes change. As a teenager I dreaded the Friday lunch during my heady days in the Aveyron. It would hit me each Wednesday that we were on countdown to the most frightful meal of the week. How could this dish fit into cooking … Continue reading
Posted in AOC, Baccala, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassserie Lipp, Burgundy, Cazuela, Cazuela, Cicchetti, Curing and Smoking, Norway, Onions, Poulet, Poulet de Bresse, Poulet de Bresse, Salt Cod, Spanish Cooking
Tagged Aveyron, Bacalau, Bacalhau, Baccala, Baccala Mantecato, brandade de morue, Cafe Viargues, Decazeville, Fresh Cod, Genoa, Harry's Bar Cookbook, Iceland, il Genovese, La Cucina Veneziana, Lofoten, Lutefisk, Merlu, Morue, Pesto alla Genovese, Reykjavik, Slow Food Ark, Stoccafisso, Stockfish, Stockfisk
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Sauce Source
Why does sauce making get folks into such a proper lather? Gravies and sauces get confused. How to present a dish in its full glory? The routine is familiar and would have been heard in a million or more homes … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Batterie, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Burgundy, Chicken, Citrus Fruit, Fonds and Jus, Great Chefs, Onions, Stocks and Stock Making, Wild Funghi
Tagged Airelles, Aromatics, Auguste Escoffier, Calvados, Citrus, Cognac, Confits, Dried Porcini, Escoffier, Fonds, Fumets, Good Vinegars, Sauciers, Stocks, Wine
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Broccoli has the Power to Divide
From an American president who famously told his country that having loathed broccoli all his life, he’d decided it would never be on White House menu’s for as long as he stayed in his Oval House. The broccoli farmers of … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Best Pasta, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Nonna's Cooking, Onions, Real Italy, Salad, Southern Italy, Techniques
Tagged Broccoli, Cime di Rapa, Friarielli, Gennaro's Delicatessen, Lazio, Naples-Campagna, Orecciette, Oval Office, Pancetta, President Bush Snr, Puglia, White House
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Steak and Claret. That’s Shallot
The shallot sits at the top of onion society. It’s an aristocrat among alliums. Yet so few are sold alongside their more commonplace round onion. Stranger things happen at sea as the saying goes. For me the shallot really fires … Continue reading