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Sous vide: the technique and gadget that has come to grace today’s menus and modern kitchens. For those of you unfamiliar with this, sous vide is the process of taking food, sealing it (seasoned or not) in a vacuum pack…
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Recently I came upon the most marvellous thing. For someone who recently wrote a blog post about preferring cheese over men (read here), the idea of recently launched cheese cookery classes at L’Atelier des Chefs is clearly really very exciting. So when…
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Growing up, every Monday on my way home from netball practice I’d stop off at the local Morrison’s at around 8pm. 8pm was a special time in the Wetherby branch. At 8pm they’d take all the hot plate food out,…
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I love a good French dinner, and recently, in pursuit of one, I popped into Covent Garden’s Les Deux Salons with the extended familia. Set right around the corner from Charing Cross, it sure is a convenient hop from the…
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There are a lot of good places to drink in Covent Garden, but also a lot of massively dire ones. The scale of dire there ranges from the hipster, moustached and uncomfortable, to the downright loutish. If I see another…
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Nestled in a cosy nook at the heart of London’s business sector, the City, lurks a shiny new outlet for my baked, roasted, tossed and sandwiched desires. Euphorium Bakery, newly opened this month, wafts bready smells down Threadneedle Street, enticing…
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Vermouth. Now there’s a tipple I’ve always wholly disregarded. Something to bang in a martini, something that sits at the back of my parents’ spirit shelf, sticky and collecting dust, something not very nice. And so, when invited to attend…
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