Ian Marber, the nutritional therapist behind The Food Doctor brand of healthy food products and clinics, is a mainstay of daytime TV and magazine and newspaper food and wellbeing columns. He released his first book in 1999, and has published regularly ever since. How Not to Get Fat – Your Daily Diet is Marber’s latest [...]
There are things we say in the kitchen, a codified lexicon, that explain some of the kitchen mentality at Ko. “Make it soigne” means make it right and make it perfect. It’s something you hear a lot in traditional French kitchens. No mistakes, no misunderstandings. Make it the best. Do not fuck it up. It’s [...]
When you think about the types of food that have strong associations with a particular place or country, what do you think of? British fish and chips, maybe, or American hotdogs? What about French crepes or Belgian waffles, Spanish churros or an Italian espresso? There’s a subtle theme here…these are all fast foods, street foods, [...]
Bill Granger has a particularly attractive way with food. His new book is a collection of unfussy, stripped down classics, aimed at providing a comprehensive guide to cooking some of Granger’s best dishes at home. Granger’s food is hard to describe properly. It’s homely and comfortable, but the influence of the Sydney restaurant scene screams [...]
Mark Hix runs a clutch of restaurants in London and another one in the coastal town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. With his food, Hix wanted to rekindle the old London chop houses – restaurants that flourished during the 1800s that were ‘civilised places to eat big chunks of meat.’ A constant theme on Hix’s [...]