Here’s a chance to win one of two copies of Colman Andrews’ superb book Taste of America. It’s a fascinating insight into American cuisine, and the food that built and shaped a nation. Here’s my full review. There are no strings with this giveaway – it’s exactly that … a giveaway. Just use this form [...]
I once rode across America on a Greyhound bus, from the laid-back city of Portland, through the deserts of Utah and back up through the Wild West to the industrial heartland of Chicago and Detroit, then onto Toronto and my Uncle’s spare bedroom for a week of recovery. I learnt two things on that trip, [...]
A book about pies, perhaps? Absolutely. Quite an easy guess. It’s written by Global Baker Dean Brettschneider. “Global Baker”? I think that just means that Dean’s from New Zealand. He’s got some pedigree, though, and has lived and worked in places as diverse as China and Denmark. That sounds suspiciously like a ‘brand’ … Maybe [...]
I read a lot of cookbooks. There are a couple of hundred on the shelves over there in the dining room, and I’m starting to get to the point where I don’t think many more will be, shall we say, welcome. I can tell a good cookbook from a bad one almost immediately … that [...]
The Levant is the part of the world where continents and empires collide, the crossroads where east meets west with a passing wave at Africa. It centres around the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing countries like the Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey, the crucible of the Mediterranean and an area still very much at the forefront of [...]