Strolling along the river in Ljubljana I came across a fascinating market stall with every kind of richly-coloured, textured, twisting and bending, wooden spoon...
One of my favourite journalists, India Knight, recently wrote a piece in The Sunday Times commenting that “it’s hard to escape the sense that, state of the worl...
“It’s Christmas morning, soon after breakfast, that fallow period when not much is going on. I look inside the fridge, hoping for something like a cold sausage ...
I am sure I am not alone in playing the magpie when faced with a pile of ancient magazines and mentally cloaked in anticipatory anxiety in the waiting room of a...
"I feel that way about a lot of food. I like things that would make food sophisticates immediately cross me off their lists. California Dip, for example. At lea...
So there I was, sitting in the passenger seat, following this 4 x 4 through Germany, flicking casually through my Instagram account.
Following the jerry-can...
The last stop on the European gastronomic tour this summer was Berlin. There were all kinds of envisaged treats there of course….and then there was one very une...
"Oh, well, I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music."
-Tony Curtis, in Some Like It Hot
We were part-way through the cookery de...
"Today, under the constraints of time and profit, the practice of aging beef in France is disappearing. A well-aged slice of beef has lost at least 30 percent o...
Driving down through Italy, we stopped for the night in Orvieto.
We sought somewhere to have dinner off the main tourist drag, we saw a narrow alleyway and p...
