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Tag Archives: Gareth Jones Food
Learning on the Wing with ‘Mr Blackbird’
First it was Martina in Valencia. Today it’s Monsieur Merle from Paris. In all the years I knew him I never asked his first name- he was father to my good friend Dominique and just retired when I first met … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food Influencers, Food travel, Foraging, French Markets, Ingredients, Kitchen Equipment, Kitchen Tips, Memories, Oysters and Shellfish, Poulet, Poulet Fermiers, Speciality Chicken, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bofiner brasserie, Brasserie Lutetia, Cooking techniques, Cooking tips, Coq au Vin, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Le Guerandais, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Morgon wine, Mr Blakbird's Classic Cockerel, Salt
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No Chewing over this Fat
Michelangelo compared his sculpted Carrara marble figures to the colour and texture of Lardo di Colonnata – it is said. To think of Lardo makes me wish to be in Italy now, this minute. Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food travel, IGP, Ingredients, Kitchen Must-Have, Memories
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Colonnata, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, IGP, Italian cooking, Kitchen Tips, Lardo, Lardo di Colonnata, Lardo on bread, Meat canon, Parma, Pesto, Prosiutto di Parma, UK Food Industry
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Martina – Learning from a Kitchen Angel, Language Aside
There was a lady in Valencia called Martina. She’d left her family in a country village near Teruel at the age of 14 or less to go into service with the Casanova’s, a grand old Valenciana family – famous in their glory days … Continue reading
Post Script on ‘Twin Beaks’
It came to me on a farmyard somewhere near the beautiful hilltop hamlet of Pomeroy in Northern Ireland early one morning that chickens know they are Free Range, but don’t know nor care, they’re Organic. The flock was just out of the house … Continue reading
Posted in Food Marketeers, food politics, Food Scams, Organic Food, Poulet, Poulet de Gournay, Speciality Chicken, The Food Business
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, food politics, food scams, Free Range Chicken, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Organic, Poulet de Gournay, UK Food Industry
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‘Twin Beaks’ and Cherry Pie
Rolls Royce Chickens – merde mes braves – there’s more to a factory hybrid built up to huge carcase weight. This is anti-gastronomy. Stop please. The joke must end soon. Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Capon, Food Influencers, Food Marketeers, Food Scams, French supermarkets, Latest Trends, Poulet, Poulet de Gournay, Poulet Fermiers, Rants, Speciality Chicken
Tagged AOC, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chicken, David Lynch, Food Ethics, Food rant, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Les Glorieuses, Poulet de Bresse, Poulet de Gournay, Ross hybrid, UK Food Industry, £32 Chicken
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Fish Fight. Oh Yeah?
Back into Folkstone last weekend to buy fish straight off the family-owned day boats. Dover soles as big as a giant’s feet – probably 18-20 years old, around £5 each and still stiff with freshness. Uncooked crevettes, from the other side … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Fish, food politics, Kitchen Tips, Oysters and Shellfish, supermarkets
Tagged Adopt a Day Boat, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Boulogne, Channel 4, Cooking techniques, Fish Rights, Folkstone Fish Market, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Kitchen Tips, Mack Baps, Oysters, Supermarkets, UK Food Industry
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‘Wabi-Sabi’ – 5 Spoons, each from their own little Avalon
This is a reasonably serious post – as serious as any I might write. As a Private Eye reader since school days, I’d prefer my readers not to think I’m writing a column about ‘slebs and their spoons as the Eye … Continue reading
Posted in Batterie, Food travel, French Markets, Kitchen Equipment, Kitchen Must-Have, Memories, Risotto
Tagged A Dictionary of Japanese Food-Ingredients & Culture, David Mellor, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Japanese Cooking, Japanese Food, Kitchen Must Have, kitchen utensils, Richard Hosking, Rissoti, Rissotto, Spoons, Wabi-Sabi, Wasabi
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