There’s been some purging going on. When you make a decision to move your life to the other side of the world for a while, you start looking around and counting stuff. We have a normal, two bedroom apartment. But after living here for five years, there’s a lot of stuff. I swear it breeds […]
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So. Last week there was a new list that came out. See here El Bulli got bunted down and so did Fat Duck. Noma slides to top spot, it’s supposedly now the ‘world’s best restaurant’. Having never been to Copenhagen, it’s hard to make an educated comment on this new state of play. The only […]
The other day when twittering away some time in the back of a taxi I stumbled on the most delightful post by Emily Fleischaker. In this blog for Bon Appetit she works through her thoughts on ‘what her mother taught her about food’. See here It’s just lovely, in a mellow cup of tea and […]
Most mornings breakfast looks like this: It’s an insanely earnest slurry of muesli, made from Carmen’s Bircher, bumped up with some puffed kamut, bran and a strange fibre boost powder that’s deckled with carob. The puffed kamut was a novelty supermarket purchase, which largely revolved around the lark factor of saying ‘puffed kamut’ in a […]
It’s hard to believe the day with a white dress was more than two years ago. There are many great things I remember. Most are set in slightly hazy, slow motion montage to a sound track of Stevie Wonder and Ben Harper. Ducking in for a nervous trip to the toilet just before dashing down […]