I’ve written a piece about the restaurants and bars in Saltaire for Leeds-based arts and culture blog, The Culture Vulture. This is the first time I’ve written a guest piece for anybody else, and I’m very grateful to Emma at The Culture Vulture for giving me the opportunity in the first place, and even more [...]
I must admit to approaching Yotam Ottolenhi’s Plenty with some trepidation. It’s a vegetarian cookbook. I am not a vegetarian. You may have noticed this. Vegetarian cooking just isn’t my strong point. I’m not militant about my meat-eating, though, and I’m not averse to vegetarian cuisine. I just don’t think about my cooking as either [...]
The recession might be technically over, but these things have a long tail and there’s more misery afoot, especially once the new occupants of Downing Street start to swing their cross-party scythe. Austerity has crept back into fashion. People want – need – their money to go much, much farther than it ever has done [...]
The Yorkshire Chef’s Cookbook is published by the good people at the Leeds Guide. It’s a collection of recipes from some of the region’s best chefs. There’s some great stuff here – a smokey duck breast dish from The Fourth Floor Restaurant at Harvey Nichols, some venison from the brilliant Butcher’s Arms at Hepworth, roast [...]
Everybody knows that cooking professionally is hard. The hours are long, the work is stressful. Kitchens are hot, inhospitable and downright dangerous places to work. It’s relentless work, with wave after wave of possible problems and things that could – and do – go wrong. But to some people, cooking is in their blood. It’s [...]