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Category Archives: Wild Food
Instep for Cruschi
I break into a smile each time I hear myself saying “Cruschi”. It’s a quite crazy word for a very real gastronomic treat. Said by the peoples of Lucano, it sounds like “Crusshh-ski” – put a question mark at the end and, … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Basilicata, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bread, DOC, Real Italy, Southern Italy, Spanish Cooking, Terroir, Wild Food, Wines
Tagged 'In Search of TASTE', Aglianico Wine, Basilicata, Cacioricotta, Campania, Cruschi, Enotria, Gallucci & Gilmour, IGP, Keith Reeves, Lampascioni, Lucano, Pecorino di Filiano DOP, Peperoni di Senise, Ristras, Senise, Sinni River, Spanish Antilles, Strascinata, Taurasi Wine
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Two Buses and a Pre-Historic Encounter
You know the English saying – you wait for ages at the bus stop and then two or more buses arrive together. This just happened to me. One week the Poissonnèrie Municipale at Le Tréport (Normandy), then a week and a … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Archaeology and Food, Basil, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cicchetti, Classic Rice Dishes, Fish, Food of the Ancients, Food travel, Foraging, Ligurian, Nonna's Cooking, Origins of our food, Oysters and Shellfish, Puglia, Pugliese, Real Italy, Rice, Risotto, Terroir, Wild Food, Wild Funghi
Tagged Chanterelles, Colette on Truffles, Danielli Fresh Pasta Shop, DOP Marvaldi Olive Oil, Il Genovese Restaurant, Ligurian Olive Oil, Magnosa, Melaosporum Black Truffle, Mercato Orientale in Genoa, Monocle Magazine, Perigord Truffle, Pesto alla Genovese, Pesto Rossi, Poissonerie Municipale at Le Treport, Porcini, Roberto Panizza, Taggiasche Olives, Tartufo d'Alba, truffles, Via Galata, Via XX Septembre, Wallpaper Guide to Genoa, White truffle, Wild Funghi
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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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Exotic Eggs off Les Falaises and Welsh Plough
This was the time of year I’d hoped to be filming in France – among other locations, in Étretat and on the creamy coloured Falaises (Côtes Albatre). I’d set up the exclusive contact to involve one of the very few Englishmen with a … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, DOP, Food travel, Foraging, Gull's Eggs, Memories, Perfect Eggs, Wild Food
Tagged 20 bore shotgun, Allen's of Mayfair Butchers, Celery Salt, Chasseurs, Etretat, Farm Street Jesuit Centre, Glyn Ceiriog, Gull's Eggs, Hunters, Les Falaises, Les Roches Blanches, Llangollen, Peewit's Eggs, Plover's Eggs, plovers' nest on the plough, Port, Sourdough, Wales, Welsh Farmhouse Butter, www.walkwithjoy.com
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Condiment or Fish? You Decide
A deep love of food culture and ingredients has my mind flicking backwards and forwards as I go about my day. If my day has me in a space as splendid as Genoa, then you must expect some fire crackers. … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Best Pasta, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassserie Lipp, Caesar Salad, Cauliflowers, Fish, Food Marketeers, Food of the Ancients, Food travel, Foraging, French supermarkets, Ligurian, Nonna's Cooking, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Salad, Salad and Digestion, Simple Food, Wild Food
Tagged Acciughe, Anchovies, Ancient Rome, Brasserie Lipp, Bucatini, Chancerelle Family, Chicory, Connétable, Garum, Genoa, Liquamun, Mercado Orientale, Monaco, Monagasque, Puntarelle di Roma, Radicchio, Salsa di Acciughe, Sardines, Via Sotorippa
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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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Wish List 2012. This Boy’s Up for Hire.
I could go a bit crazy at this point. Why, because I want everything I wish for to come about. Believe in it enough they say and it will happen. So I am believing myself into each of the situations set out … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Bauhaus, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food Influencers, Food of the Ancients, food politics, Food travel, French Markets, French supermarkets, Great Chefs, Ingredients, New Chefs, Nonna's Cooking, Norway, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Simple Food, Southern Italy, Spanish Cooking, Terroir, The Food Business, The Moors, Wild Food, Wild Funghi
Tagged American Newspapers, Anthony Bourdain, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food from the Baltic and Germany's Countryside, Iran (Persia), Lebanon, Les Halles Cookbook, Middle Eastern Cuisines, Monocle, Southern Italian food and cooking, Syria, The Spectator, Yemen
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