Posted in America, British, England, Recipe, alcohol, alcoholic drink, apples, barbecue, beverage, drink, eastenders, holiday, patriotism, summer, tradition on Jul 4th, 2009
Every stereotype, no matter how absurd the caricature, has, at its core, a grain of truth. Though I doubt anyone has ever seen him, the beret and black and white hooped sweater-sporting Frenchman with a cigarette hanging off his lower lip and a baguette under his arm, remains an abiding image of France; and in [...]
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Posted in British, England, Garlic, London, Manchester, Potato, Recipe, beef tallow, carrots, chicken, chicken stock, flavor, flavour, flour, herbs, lard, leek, onions, parsley, parsnips, stew, suet, thyme, vegetables, weather, winter on Jan 16th, 2009
File this one under “utter fabrications told to you by older sibling and believed for too long”. I must have been very young when my sister (15 months my senior) informed me that I should be wary of eating my grandmother’s suet dumplings because suet was the gooey material supporting bovine eye-balls. Quite where she got this [...]
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Posted in British, Christmas, England, Recipe, alcohol, alcoholic drink, anise, bay, beverage, brown sugar, cinnamon, culture, drink, easy, holiday, holidays, juice, lemon, orange juice, oranges, spices, sweet, tradition, wine, winter on Dec 20th, 2008
Even though mulled wine should remind me of being in the church choir as a cherub-faced youngster and singing Christmas carols with frosty breath overlooking a seasonally-decorated nave and a sea of pink-cheeked parishoners, it doesn’t. In spite of this being the way I was introduced to this most famous Yuletide beverage, my abiding memories [...]
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Posted in British, England, Fergus Henderson, Food Commentary, Gabrielle Hamilton, London, Prune, Restaurant Review, animals, dining, duck, eating, family, food, holiday, lunch, mutton, parsley, pigs, podcast, restaurant, tourism, travel, trotter on Dec 3rd, 2008
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Since Amy and I have been together I think we’ve only spent two Thanksgivings in America – not because we don’t enjoy turkey, but because it is often the cheapest time of the year to leave the country as many expat Americans are returning home. And true to form, this year, despite a sizable delay [...]
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We recently invited you to tell us what your top five flavors of potato crisps/chips are, and we were, frankly, amazed that so many of you did. Not only that, we were surprised by the variety of flavors you selected. It seems that there is a wide world of taste out there and we are [...]
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Posted in British, England, Food Commentary, Pub, alcohol, beer, chips, crisps, crispy, flavor, flavour, food, fried, salt, vinegar on Sep 25th, 2008
Those of you who have watched or read Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, will be familiar with the idea of top fives. In the movie, the main character (played by John Cusack) is a record shop owner, who spends most of the movie revisiting the demise of his past relationships, and in so doing, constantly re-imagines [...]
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Posted in England, Food Commentary, Jose Andres, Spain, Squid, appetizer, beer, bread, capers, cheese, easy, eating, food, healthy, lemon, mackerel, manchego, morcilla, peppers, pinchos, pintxos, piquillo peppers, racione, sausage, savory, seafood, soccer, tapas on Jun 8th, 2008
In celebration of the start of Euro 2008 – the European soccer/football championships – yesterday, and in light of the fact that England failed to qualify because they were awful, I am in need of a team to follow, so have decided to become an honorary Spanish soccer fan for the next month, or however [...]
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Posted in America, Bourdain, England, Fergus Henderson, Food Commentary, Gabrielle Hamilton, London, Mark Bittman, Prune, Restaurant Review, alcohol, batter, bone-marrow, butter, celebrity, chefs, cornichons, delicacy, dining, diversity, eating, food, game, gherkins, indulgent meal, offal, philosophy, podcast, quail, rabbit, restaurant, squab, sweetbreads on Apr 24th, 2008
Normally, when I think of prunes my first thought is the familiar TV commercial showing the side-by-side comparison of someone experiencing “bloating and discomfort” and someone enjoying the verve and gaiety brought on by just one bowlful of California prunes. However, since last Thursday, my first thought is now “when can I have some more?”. [...]
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