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 »
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Make It Melt on Your Tongue: A Night of Chocolate with the London Gastronomy Seminars
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 »
Introducing the 100 Pubs Project Map
Yeah, it was coming. Who could resist the mighty power of Google? So, I’ve created a map for the 100 Pubs Project pinpointing each pub I’ve visited so far for the project. Yep, I went through my little Pub Project notebook and plugged in every pub in Google Maps and saved it to a specially-created … Continue reading »
Jellyspeak with Bompas and Parr and the Experimental Food Society
Thursday the 17th saw me in a room full of people, the Cookbook Cafe to be precise, watching two young men show us what extraordinary things they can do with their jelly. Allow me to explain. As (sort-of) anthropologists of food, my cohorts and I in the MA programme at SOAS are quite involved in … Continue reading »
The Kitchen Front at the Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum has a new exhibit which opened on the 12th of February. I was able to go to a sneak peek opening through a friend on Tuesday, the 9th (thank you, Derry). The Ministry of Food exhibit is an exhibit dealing with food, food production and rationing during World War II. The … Continue reading »
