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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Earlier this month, Great British Chefs had advertised that their iPhone and iPad apps, were on sale half-off this month. I’ve been following Great British Chefs, mostly on Twitter and Facebook, so I downloaded their app onto my iPhone for $3.99. I think the usual price for the American iTunes Store is $6.99, but I … Continue reading »
In an article on Treehugger.com, Sami Grover asks “What Does a Vegan World Actually Look Like?” I found the article interesting, however not without some flaws of thought. A particular passage in the article particularly rankled me. Would a Vegan World Be Less Cruel? Clearly eating meat, or supporting the death that is inherent in … Continue reading »
Recently I finished reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, a book that’s part food memoir, part investigative journalism and part interview, all focusing on the problematic consumption of animals, particularly in the United States. As someone who has read other accounts of factory farming and the inhumane treatment of animals in these type of “farms,” … Continue reading »
I love sandwiches. If there was a type of food that I was restricted to eating, I would pick sandwiches over pizzas, curries, sushi, burritos, wraps or any other sorts. I could potentially live and live all right as a sandwichterian. Thankfully, I won’t have to (as I do love some pizza & etc), but … Continue reading »
This is just some pictures of stuff I’ve made at Stardust in the past couple months. I hope you have a cupcake or something nearby, or you’re likely to be pretty annoyed with me. BEWARE! NOMS AHEAD! That’s that for now.
I’ve been meaning to write an article like this one for a while, since I started the Tasty Fever blog years ago. When I was first getting into baking, I noticed that a lot of cookbooks that focused on baking often assumed that the reader had a number of kitchen gadgets that I, as an … Continue reading »
So, after lolling about unemployed at my parents’ house, I’ve begun baking again at Stardust Coffee & Video (or Video & Coffee… one of them). Last night I took a break because the water was turned off at my parents’ house due to a suspected leak, but the past handful of days have seen an … Continue reading »
So, now that I’m back in Orlando, I had been meaning to catch up with the local market scene. It didn’t take me long to go to the revived College Park Market located in the parking lot of Infusion on Thursday evenings. Small but sweet, it focused more on edible items for purchase. It was … Continue reading »
