Last week, I received an e-mail entitled thusly: “Congratulations aspiring scholar, Hendrick’s Schools await you Monday 20th February!“ Aside from a couple of missing commas in the above sentence (*ahem*), this was a beautiful sentence to read, for I had “applied” to attend Hendrick’s School of Wooing and Eluding at The Lonsdale in Notting Hill. Per … Continue reading »
Sömine, Somine or Şömine. It’s only recently I’ve been referring to “that 24 hour soup place” by name, and even now I’m probably not pronouncing the name correctly. However you refer to it, Sömine is a treasure of Dalston. It provides excellent Turkish food at a great value at all hours of the day or … Continue reading »
If Great British Chefs are involved in an event (or perhaps anything), it’s been my experience that it’s worth going to. In case you didn’t know (and if you don’t, I don’t blame you), it’s Social Media Week. So if you happen to be in one of the cities where events are happening for this … Continue reading »
After reading Wes Janisen’s amazing article, Let Vodka Be Your Valentine, on Thought Catalog, I was inspired to write my own alcoholic homage. So, a very Happy Valentine’s Day to a love I celebrate as much as I can: beer. Beer and I go way back. It’s been a subject of photographs I’ve taken since … Continue reading »
Seriously. So, like many other young(ish) folks in cities all across this great globe, I am looking for gainful employment. In addition to applying for jobs online, and having a cadre of kind friends keeping their eyes and ears open for job opportunities for me, I’d like to put out a request to those of … Continue reading »
Barring a set of circumstances in which I fall hopelessly in love with a dashing stranger who reciprocates my ardent fervour with similar passion, I will be one of many people in London passing through the Valentine’s Day holiday lacking a so-called significant other. Which, frankly, is great. When I was in relationships, I remember … Continue reading »
I won a whisky tasting. Normally, I don’t have the sort of luck that wins things. I generally have the sort of luck that involves finding 2p or 5p coins on the ground, or that allows me to be one of the last people to be able to squeeze onto a packed tube or bus, … Continue reading »
Earlier this week I attended my first seminar with London Gastronomy Seminars on that lovely product of bitterness and sweetness enjoyed by so many: chocolate. Chocolate, an object of desire for many and perhaps fetishised heavily particularly around holidays, as the recent catalogue for Hotel Chocolat demonstrates so well, is amazingly ubiquitous but still rather mysterious … Continue reading »
I love beer. If you’ve been following this blog, you should know I love beer. But when I mean beer, I mean good beer. Delicious beer. Beer that’s so great it’ll make your eyes widen with the epiphany of how magnificent it is. Beer that makes your tongue want to bathe in it for its … Continue reading »
Last year for Thanksgiving, I roasted a Tofurky roast and wrote a bit about it here. Seeing as how this year for Christmas I will be on my own, I still wanted to have a festive meal when I got home from working at the pub on Christmas Day (yes, I will be working on … Continue reading »
On the 22nd, I met up with friends on Brick Lane to attend the Experimental Food Society‘s exhibition, or as they deemed it, “Spectacular.” After seeing a horrendously long queue full of young, fashionable folk, I was a bit alarmed and worried about the event… until I realised the line was actually for the American … Continue reading »
After an hour or so at the UK RumFest, sampling a silly amount of rum, my friend Rob turns to me and says, “I think I’ve had enough rum.” I respond, “Did you ever think you would say those words?” It was Saturday, the 15th of October, and the first day of the UK RumFest, … Continue reading »
So, I got invited to attend a chocolate truffle-making workshop with other London-based bloggers (and a Facebook contest winner) by Great British Chefs at Homemade London. We’d be making a modified version of a recipe featured on the Great British Chefs app that I reviewed not so long ago. I made the jaunt out to … Continue reading »
There’s something really special about having a nice mug to drink out of. I got a new mug from Takae Mizutani, a Japanese designer living in London whose wares are made right here in England–Cornwall, specifically. The mug may just be my new favourite thing to drink my tea out of. I’m keen on picking … Continue reading »
I’ll be going to the UK RumFest at Kensington Olympia 2 tomorrow. There’s still nothing really on their site regarding the Tropical Food Area, so my journalistic associate and I will be likely making a trip to Notting Hill prior to the hullabaloo and hitting a Mexican restaurant, El Camino, which I haven’t gotten a … Continue reading »
