Other food travel
CategoryNorwegian Wood (or is it dried meat?)
I’m in Oslo (or Osslo, as they prefer it here) right now trying to dig around the Norwegian food scene, such as it is, for a magazine feat..
Paris chocolate tour part II
Next stop, in my crazy, sugar-fuelled, chocolate zig-zag across town was Jean-Paul Hévin at 231 rue St Honoré in the 1st.
I first encounte..
The chocolatiers of Paris
Sometimes, occasionally – okay, only really as I write this and reflect on a day spent almost entirely in the pursuit of chocolate perfect..
Where in the world…?
Hooray, finally we are back in…
Can you guess where we are yet? A chocolate crocodile? A shameless abundance of cigarettes? What kind o..- Cooking
- Dashi
- Japanese Food: Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Okinawa, etc
- Japanese Food: Tokyo
- Michael Booth
- Michelin restaurants
- Miso
- Murata
- Other food travel
- Restaurants: Japan
Dashi PT II – The Art-a-Murata
I promised to tell you how to make the perfect ichiban dashi – the basic Japanese ‘stock’ made from dried konbu seaweed, katsuobushi flak..
Swedish lessons
I was in Sweden yesterday and spotted one of their 400 or so, faintly depressing national Systembolaget shops. In Sweden, virtually all al..
Zen and the art of selling bread
I was in Copenhagen yesterday researching a non-food article for the Independent newspaper and took the chance to check out a radical ne..
Noma Third Best Restaurant in the World
A couple of days ago I received an unexpected and lovely email from the head chef of the Copenhagen restaurant Noma, Rene Redzepi, congrat..
The €5,000 super mongrel
Is there a more polarising foodstuff in the world than truffles? Depending on who you talk to, they are either some kind of food lover’s t..