Well, not literally on the road, but what’s a foodie to do when travelling the highways and byways of the UK? According to a survey by by Europcar 95% of motorists believe the choice, price and quality of roadside food is unacceptable with 80% saying they have previously gone hungry rather than eat from the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food Writing'
Eating on the road – the Roadside Gastro Guide
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Eating with kids, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie things to do, Picnics, Places to eat
The Friday Five – The state of British Food
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Food Writing, Foodie gifts, French food, Friday Five
One of the great joys of being in France was the daily choice of which market to go to, and then to see great looking food to choose from, from small producers, local producers, French producers. Which made us debate how we managed to loose that in the UK. I mean, the French had rationing [...]
Tags:British favourites·food history·food markets·Local food
The Friday Five – Smoking salt and other activities
July 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cheese, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own
I’m not doing very well with my holiday reading, which is no fault of the book and more to do with fine weather and lots of things to do. After last year’s Cod, this year I am following up with Mark Kurlansky’s Salt: A World History, which is particularly appropriate given the proximity to several [...]
Tags:curing·Preserving·Salt
Writing passionately about local food
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Food Writing, Foodie gifts
Being in the Midlands, we’re not short of counties. Leave home in Leicestershire, cross briefly into Lincolnshire, arrive at work in Nottinghamshire…if I detoured a few miles I could clock up Derbyshire as well, all before elevenses. Which possibly explains why there are a number of local magazines devoted to food and why there is [...]
Tags:food writing·Local food
The Friday Five – Independence Day and some good American cooking
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Places to eat
I don’t have a Friday any closer to the 4th July, so thought would use this Friday’s Five to look at some of the great food coming out of the US. It’s too easy to dismiss American cooking as all being about trashy, fast food, but there is so much going on that it is [...]
Tags:Carnegie Deli·clambake·Martha Stewart·The French Laundry·Thomas Keller·Zuni
New book temptation time
June 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie gifts, Offers & Discount Codes, Places to shop online
It’s probably obvious from many entries on the blog that I quite like books about food. No Kindle happening here yet, I love a good leaf through a proper book. So I think it’s unfair of Waterstones to try and tempt me further. But they are doing so, with a further 5% off any spend [...]
The Friday Five – Bring on the Veggies
May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Healthy eating
Next week is National Vegetarian Week, so I thought it would be good to look at interesting cookbooks that are not about the meat. Even if you’re not a full time veggie, there is a school of thought that says it’s a good thing to have less meat, and therefore you might want some inspiration [...]
Tags:allotments·Charmaine Solomon·Cookbooks·Grow your own·Ingredients·Mediterranean food·National Vegetarian Week·Nigel Slater·Rose Elliot·Simon Hopkinson
The Friday Five – the other patron saints of England
April 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts
Happy St George’s Day to all my English readers, wherever you’re based! For today’s 5, the obvious thing would have been to feature the top English food writers but I think the combined sainthood of Delia, Jamie, Nigella, Nigel and Rick is far too well known. Even going further back, Elizabeth David and even Fanny [...]
Tags:Ambrose Heath·Arthur Gay Payne·C. Anne Wilson·Cookbooks·English Food·Food trends·The Pudding Club·W M W Fowler
The Friday Five – Travels with Food
April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · British favourites, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie gifts, Spanish food
As you may know by now, we’re away for Easter and no, my housesitters don’t extend their duties to blog sitting! One of my favourite pre-holiday preparations is choosing my holiday reading. I always try to have at least one book based in the country or culture I’m visiting, as it adds something in my [...]
Tags:Afternoon tea·Baking·British favourites·Eat My Globe·Everything but the Squeal·food markets·French food·Hokkaido Highway Blues·holiday reading·holidays·Local food·Middle England·Peter Mayle·Simon Majumdar
What do foodies do in Spring?
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Chinese Food, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie blogs, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, French food, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Kitchenwares
There are very vague signs of Spring: mornings are lighter, if I slink off sharpish it’s still light when I leave work, and there are some small green shoots in the garden. And in the kitchen all sorts of things change for me. I know that it’s Spring when I start reaching for Bill Granger [...]
Tags:allotments·Bill Granger·Chinese New Year·Cookbooks·French food·Grow your own·pancakes·Pierre Herme·Seeds of Italy·Shrove Tuesday·Spring·vegetable growing
