Fromagerie Antony, Ferret, Alsace
In a radical, cutting edge multi-media experiment I have uploaded some (admittedly rather dull) photographs from my recent trip to the fan..
- Dashi
- Japanese Food: Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Okinawa, etc
- Japanese Food: Tokyo
- Michael Booth
- Restaurants: Japan
Japanese food in three minutes
This film by theperennialplate.com is basically my book, Sushi and Beyond, condensed into the length of a 45. Amazing and beautiful.
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British Travel Press Awards – Hooray!
Huzzah, Hurrah and Hooray! Eat, Pray, Eat has been nominated for a massively prestigious and sexy British Travel Press Award – in the cate..
Berlin beer
Been in Berlin. Fabulous museums, lovely people, a million ghosts, but is there a worse food city on the planet? (Slough, perhaps, but, ok..
Noma – private dining room
A friend of ours bagged the 'banqueting' or private dining room at Noma this week. I don't think it's all that well known that Noma has a ..
Radio silence / Shanghai
A while back, I idly emailed my publisher to enquire when the deadline was for my next book, which is going to be about the Nordic region ..
That nice Mr Ottolenghi
A nice surprise yesterday, the chef Yotam Ottolenghi gave me a lovely big-up in the New York Times:
“Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese ..
Sea Urchin safari
For some years, Rene at Noma has been telling me about a mad Scotsman called Roderick Sloan who lives up in the Arctic Circle in northern ..
Heston’s Meat Fruit
I went for lunch at Dinner the other day. Of course, I had to have the courageously unappetisingly-named 'Meat Fruit', a chicken liver/foi..
Rome: most disappointing European capital food-wise?
I provoked whatever the Twitter equivalent of a few raised eyebrows is a while back when I was in Rome and mentioned online how lacklustre..