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Monthly Archives: May 2012
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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The Poitevin Black Top
In my few visits to Poitou-Charentes I’ve always eaten well, enjoyed good wines and come away with new ideas. I also come away with a feeling they like to keep some things to themselves – for example, the remarkable Farce Poitevin, … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cocktails, Food travel, French Markets, French Regional Foods, French supermarkets
Tagged Chauvigny, Farce Poitvin, Gites de France, La Chapelle de Notre-Dame en Haut, Le Corbusier, Leclerc, Leclerc's Nos Regions on du Talent, Melissey, Notre Dame de Ronchamps, Poitou-Charentes, Ronchamps, The Vosges, Tourteau Poitou
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Heaven’s ‘Grass Comes in Two Colours or Three
Asparagus – my goodness, where to begin? I’ve grown up with the stuff – I’m still amazed about how the spears appear overnight, how the beds must not be trodden on, how to cut it, how sprue can be enjoyed and more. … Continue reading
Posted in Batterie, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Classic Rice Dishes, Food Scams, Foraging, French Markets, Good Potatoes, Kitchen Equipment, Memories, Perfect Eggs, Rice, Risotto, Simple Food, Spanish Cooking, supermarkets, Terroir, The Food Business
Tagged 'Cannabis Cuisine', Asparagus Season, Asperges Violette, Cooking Asparagus, Green Asparagus, Hamburg, Liegoise-style, Loire, Mineral Water Sommeliers, Preparing Asparagus, Sauce Maltaise, Spargel, Storing Asparagus, Violet tipped Asparagus, White Asparagus
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Feta that’ll not Make you Feta’r
You all know the expression in English ‘as different as chalk and cheese’ – I’d reckon it must have been dreamed up to describe Feta cheese. Most Feta on sale is one-dimensional, chalky, overly saline and utterly pointless. The original barrel-aged Feta, … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Citrus Fruit, DOP, Food of the Ancients, IGP, Ingredients, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Salad, Salad and Digestion, Seasoning, Simple Food, Southern Italy
Tagged Al-dente, Ancient Rome, Barrel-aged Feta Cheese, Cretan Feta, Cretan Lifestyle, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, Farro, Mediterranean Diet, Mint, Neal's Yard Dairy, Pelopennese, Rosie Barron, Sicilian new season Tomatoes, The Roman Army, Thesaloniki, Unwaxed Sicilian Lemons
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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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Art and The Gimlet
Film Noir, the thrilling, chilling genre of the 40s, was one of Art Siemering’s loves. He spoke engagingly about how Film Noir and food inter-acted at the 1999 Oxford Food Symposium (look it up on Google). Art was a very special … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, American Dishes, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cocktails, Food Influencers, Food travel, Margarita, The Gimlet, Uncategorized
Tagged 'Psycho' (1960), Art Siemering, Augustina Porter, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bogart, Boston Shake, British Merchant Navy, British Royal Navy, Carole Lombard, Chicago, Film Noir, Food Channel, Hitchcock, Hotel San Carlos, Joe Allen, Joe Allen (London), Kansas City, Limes, Limies, Mae West, Margarita's, Marilyn Monroe, Martini's, Noble & Associates, Phoenix Arizona, Pizzeria Bianco, Plymouth Gin, Portland, Portland Oregon, Rose's Lime Cordial, Scurvy, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, Slow Food, Spencer Tracy, Tanqueray Gin, Tequila, The Benson Hotel (Portland), The Gimlet, The Oregonian, The Savoy Hotel (London, Trend Wire
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