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Wonton soup for beginners

Posted in Local food, Pastry, Recipes, london, markets, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Anyone who follows my Twitter feed may have noticed that I’ve had a bee in my bonnet about wontons for these past few days. The reason? Well combined with the fact I’m a slight monomaniac, over the bank holiday weekend I was cooked some rather delicious wonton soup by a friend’s mum in between freezing [...]

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Cheap eats – six courses for six quid!

Posted in Local food, Michelin-starred restaurants, ingredients, london, reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yeah, yeah, yeah – we’re all getting pretty sick (but not as sick as those folks over at the Fat Duck) of hearing about the recession by now. As a freelance journalist living in London and working through it, I could rattle on for days about the hardship of magazines and papers cutting freelance budgets, [...]

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Jam roly poly at Rhodes Mezzanine and other Dubai food stories

Posted in Dubai, Local food, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Dear foodsters,
Greetings from Dubai – the land of food on demand. It may not be the most ethical of places, (think Atlantis whale shark controversy) but you can’t fault its food scene. Some have even gone as far as to call it tasteless, but on the contrary my friends, there’s a lot about it that’s absolutely, [...]

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Black Pudding Heaven

Posted in General, Local food, Recipes, ingredients, markets, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

It’s a contentious issue, but I happen to think that black pudding is blooming lovely – and not just for breakfast. I recently went to a small, independent black pudding producer in Lancashire to see how it’s made and met a man who knows more about black pudding than most (although these guys seem to [...]

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