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Category Archives: Sensory Cooking
‘Grass is ‘Sparagus
A weekend comes on us with promises of continuous fine weather and we are deep into the English asparagus season which correctly ends on Mid-Summer Night’s Eve. Please may I pass on tips (sic). First buy asparagus that is fresh … Continue reading
Katie or Kate’s Great Legacy
The world of food and cookery writing lost a hero a few weeks ago. Much saddened as we are to lose a friend, we lost Katie’s writing about a decade earlier when she retired from the mainstream. In what was to … Continue reading
Posted in Seasoning, Sensory Cooking, Simple Food, Stocks and Stock Making, Subsidised Food Production, Techniques, Terroir, Watercress
Tagged Anthony Blake. Cuckfield, Cookery Writers, Daily Telegraph, Fideua, Food Writers, Katie Stewart, Le Cordon Bleu. Avenue Foch, Longhouse Kitchens, Longhouse Workshops, paella, Risotto, Roll and Diamond Cutting Chinese style, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, The Guardian, The Times, Watercress Dinners, Watercress in Hampshire
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‘Al Dente’ can become ‘Al Dante’
‘Al Dente’ must be two of the most misunderstood words in the cooking world. Italians talk noisily and knowingly about their pasta and risotti having to be ‘al dente’ to be perfect. Some outside Italy even talk of vegetables being cooked ‘al … Continue reading
Posted in Best Pasta, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cipriani, Classic Rice Dishes, IGP, Latest Trends, Latini, Pastificio G De Martlino, Real Italy, Rice, Risotto, Sensory Cooking
Tagged 'Al Chiodo', Abruzzo, Al-dente, Antonietta Kelly, Beatrice Ughi, Bronx, Bronze Dies, Cipriani Pasta, Dante's Inferno, Faella, Frascati, Gragnano, Gustiamo, Gustiblog, Italian Trade Centre, Jo Wennerholm, Joy Davies' Noodles and Pasta, Latini Pasta, Pasta Making, Pastificio Di Martino, Pistoia, Rome
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Fish Foie Gras?
Sometimes we get to shop in near Heaven – we did last week when we escaped the supermarket and took our money to the real marketplace. This is where most traders are experts and conversation is encouraged. You engage and they love … Continue reading
Senses at Work in your Kitchen
My late father played the piano by ear. He could hear a melody the once and then replicate it immediately – maybe not Chopin or Debussy, but most lesser composers’ work from jazz and pop to Tin Pan Alley. As … Continue reading