Subscribe to Gareths Blog
Tag Archives: UK Food Industry
Stale Bread = Blue Collar Gastronomy
What to do with stale bread – not white sliced, but real bread? The English have Bread & Butter Pudding and, for about two weeks’ only, Summer Pudding. The Americans have French Toast. Across Europe, stale bread figures large in too many … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Food travel, Kitchen Equipment, Kitchen Tips, Techniques, Traditions at Table
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bread, Bread and butter pudding, Bruschetta, Cooking techniques, Fresselle, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Kitchen Tips, Migas, Pan Catalan, Pancetta, Panzanella, Sopa di Ajo, Stale bread, Summer pudding, UK Food Industry
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
‘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
2 Comments
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
Leave a comment
Carpaccio – Painter first, Dish second
Steven, a dear friend and mentor, asked me about carpaccio over the weekend. He’d had some vegetables sliced finely, dressed and listed as a ’carpaccio’. Nothing too wrong with that, asuming they tasted good and the dish was well executed, but it does … Continue reading
Back off the Cauliflower please
Cauliflower is not to be sneered at – two French courts revered them – even two hairy bikers can’t knock that one – Du Barry is a dream, not a Welsh town. Continue reading