All sorts of ingredients and being popped into ice cube trays to create a little something extra to accompany your artisan gin and tonic. So, here’s something citrussy and slightly different with the delicious hit of grapefruit’s tart’s acidity, from lovethecrunch.com. Makes: 12 cubes Preparation time: 10 mins plus 3-4 hours freezing time You’ll need: […]
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Fragrant air breezing up from the Tuscany and the northern pine forests of northern Italy mix with the warmth of southerly Mediteranean Sea winds to create perfect conditions for making the world famous Parma Ham. It’s here, around the beautiful city of Parma, lying amidst the fertile farmlands between the Apennine Mountains and the Po […]
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Spend an hour or two in the company of Jenny Chandler, bean and pulse enthusiast, chef and writer and you’ll be talking and thinking abut the humble bean more than you ever imagined. 2016 is the United Nations Year of the Pulse and food writer Jenny is a UN FAO Ambassador for The Year of […]
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This is first of three posts about a recent visit I was lucky enough to make to Italy, attending the Parma Ham festival and visiting an artisan producer of the famous seasoned pork legs, Prosciutto di Parma. It’s true! Italians keep most of the best ham, Proscuito di Parma, for themselves. Named after at the […]
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For Maricel E. Presilla winning prestigious James Beard prizes for her writing the best selling ‘Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America’ cookbook and being co-owner and chef at one of New Jersey, USA’s best loved restaurants Cucharamama (CU-CHAH-RAH-MAM-AH) is not enough. She is also one of the original founders of the International Chocolate […]
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Chocolate fans, expect to hear the name Barry Johnson a lot in the future. Barry, previously principal chocolatier at the mould breaking Rococo Chocolate and part of the Michelin Star winning brigade at the upmarket country house hotel Coworth Park in Berkshire, England is a well known name within his industry, and he’s is about […]
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Buffalo mozzarella balls stuffed with black olives vie for attention with piles of freshly baked focaccia and pizza steaming hot fetched out of a huge clay oven in a huge, sprawling Italian food market and community hub in one of London’s more edgier neighbourhoods south of the river Thames. The brainchild of economist, committed dreamer […]
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