Pass the whelks

I’ve just got back from a visit to Rungis – the world’s biggest fresh produce market just outside of Paris. I was there writing an article for Yes Chef magazine and in the company of four esteemed chefs – the legendary Pierre Koffmann, Pascal Proyart, Mark Jordan and James Dugal. Just in case you’re picturing [...]

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Special report: A New York food and drink odyssey Part 1

I’m back from my virgin voyage to New York with Gemma and I’ve got an announcement: I’ve become rather fond of cocktails. Now, I’ve always liked a little drink, but NYC seems to have converted me from an avid wine drinker to a cocktail queen, and what started off as living the SATC cliché (it [...]

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Paris food porn

Ok, so I do know that it’s not really in the remit of this blog to keep posting about foreign food experiences (we are 54 food miles) but I just had to say something about my trip to Paris.
Predictably, the trip pretty much centered around food (well why on earth wouldn’t it?) and it was [...]

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Happy birthday to my foodie pal

Tempted to just write about snow … (put some TwitPics up of snowy Brighton here…)
But no. Rosie. It was co-blogger Rosie’s birthday this weekend – a time when we had other things to think about than snow. She celebrated 1980s style: attendees included Bowie, a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle (just about 80s apparently) Rainbow Brite [...]

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Michelin stars, Chris Galvin and Gérald Passédat

In May this year I was lucky enough to go to Marseilles with chef Chris Galvin (the nicest man in cooking?) and his Galvin at Windows team, and sample the menu at Gérald Passédat’s three-Michelin starred Le Petit Nice. Passédat was the only chef to be upgraded to three stars in this year’s French red [...]

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A beautiful breakfast: a coffee in layers (kahawa ns-ns)

 

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