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Category: Food

A kitchen quadrivium

This book made a big noise on release, and Spouse bought me a copy for Christmas shortly thereafter, which I … More

Salt Fat Acid Heat, Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton

Eyes the same size as her stomach

Luchie (as illustrator and cartoonist Lucie Bryon likes to call herself) was apparently blessed with extremely large eyes as a … More

Food Baby, Luchie, Lucie Bryon, Shortbox Comics

Food as illustration

In Western Europe we take holidays on the Mediterranean, we hear about migrants attempting to cross it, we imagine our … More

Black Sea, Caroline Eden

Enough of a twist

High Georgian ceilings, above vast, perfectly proportioned sash windows, speak to me of cosy home comfort. Wherever I am, if … More

Edinburgh, Edinburgh food, The Outsider

Congenial hubris

Spouse and I first visited The Sheep Heid Inn at the end of a long walk with Spawn, through Holyrood … More

Duddingston, Edinburgh, Edinburgh food, Sheep Heid Inn

A ritual of sipping and nibbling

I am wearing my new coat. It is a rather jaunty, fashionable coat, but it is also very smart, so … More

afternoon tea, Edinburgh, Edinburgh food, high tea, The Signet Library

The start of a new history?

Roughly as long as my life has had something resembling its present form, I’ve been going to the Angel in … More

gastropub, Stoke-by-Nayland, The Angel

A hangover cure in the form of a building

Comfort comes in nostalgia-sized portions, and for the eponymous ‘Mum’ that nostalgia is focussed on the 1970s. This is evident … More

chicken balmoral, dining, Edinburgh, macaroni cheese, Mum's Comfort Food

A life lived in the kitchen

I don’t come from anywhere in particular. I’m a Turkish jew with an Italian name on my father’s side, and … More

cookbook, Five Quarters, food writing, Italian food, Italy, Rachel Roddy, Roman food, Rome

Slightly scuffed culinary theatre

I know about as much about Japanese food as you can find out about Italian food by eating in Pizza … More

Edinburgh, Edinburgh food, Japanese food, kimchi, Koyama, ramen, restaurants, sushi

Putting food in its place

A sense of collective memory is crucial to most people’s sense of self; few seem as happy as those who … More

Chillesford, David Grimwood, East Anglia, English cuisine, Food, local food, localism, pubs, Suffolk food, The Froize, Woodbridge

Connected food

The first time we brought Spawn to Edinburgh to callously abandon her tearful little face in a soulless new-build apartment … More

Edinburgh, Isola, Italian food, restaurant review, restaurant reviews, restaurants, Ristorante Isola, Sardinia, Sardinian food

Molecular anecdoty

I don’t follow cook-book publishing that closely (or indeed at all), but you can’t help noticing a few things if … More

food writing, Niki Segnit, The Flavour Thesaurus
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