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Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Joy that’s Dim Sum
Dim-Sum slipped quietly and without fuss into London’s then new Chinatown district in the late 70s. Like so much of the Chinese kitchen, they like to keep stuff to themselves. The Dim-Sum was mainly to attract the then growing bands of Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Chicken, Dim-Sum, Fish, London Dining, Memories, Oysters and Shellfish, Real Chinese Cooking, Rice
Tagged Air Bladder of the fish, Authentic Chinese Cooking, Best Value Eating in London, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cheun-Fung, Chickens' Feet, Chilli Sauce and Oil, Chinese Beers, Chinese Kitchen God, Chinese Tea, Chop Stick Etiquette, Cognac, Cognac from Teapots, Dim-Sim, Duck Webs, Fish Maw, Joy King Lau, Norman Han, Sherry, Spectator Scoff, Tea Etiquette, Wafer Wrapped Prawns
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I Found my Apulian Fava
Surrealism is a near daily overly used and, worse, largely misunderstood term. When you walk into London’s Queen’s Club, past three shiny patent leather black Maybach’s into a simple dining room overlooking immaculate tennis courts to meet Peppe Zullo – that’s surreal. Maybach’s stand for vulgar … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Archaeology and Food, Aubergine, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Eggplant, Food of the Ancients, Ligurian, melanzane, Origins of our food, peasant cooking, Pugliese, Real Italy, Southern Italy, Terroir, The Moors
Tagged 'Burnt Flour', 3000 year old olive trees, An Appetite for Puglia by Christine Smallwood, Antonio Tomassini, Apulia, Cacioricotta, Crema di Fava, Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, Farina Brucciato, Grano Arso, Mosto Cotto, Olive Oil, Orcchiette (Little Ears), Peppe Zullo, Primitivo di Salento, Puglia, Pugliese, Rosario Didonna, Taranto, Wild Chicory
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