Havering

Founded almost thirty years ago the Slow Food movement looks to promote the belief that food can be all at once ‘Good, Clean and Fair’. For this year’s Slow Food Week from 1st [...]

Who would’ve thought that Scotch Broth would be a dying dish, but the fact is this country has fallen out of love with mutton. While this rich, flavoursome meat is starting to make a [...]

‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers’, so wrote Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables and whether you dream of New England in the fall or reminisce of conkers in the [...]

There’s little in this amazing world of flavours that gets me as excited as the one that is currently approaching perfect ripeness. The Scottish raspberry. It has long been my favourite [...]

As a child I never realised just why Robert Burns was so important to Scotland. My childhood memories of reading ‘To a moose’ while struggling to understand the language and the [...]

 An introduction to Scotland and her whisky The French have a word, a romantic and mystical term, for the synergy between soil, climate and topography. It is this synergy that creates the finest [...]

In a world where the supermarket and the multinational is king it is undoubtedly more important than ever that there are niche suppliers with a focus on quality, welfare and provenance. When a [...]

Returning to Glasgow from a week on the stunning coast of Wester Ross travelling down the A9 I allowed myself a wistful stop off in Aviemore. It was more of a bathroom necessity to begin with, [...]

I went through a phase of wanting to be a chef, quite a long phase actually. Then I thought about doing a supper club. But who would come, what to cook? Then I met Michael Casey, the self [...]

shoogle: (v) shake, wobble, move from side to side.   One of the things that I find hardest about blogging is working out measures to put on my recipes. I rarely use scales, a spoon, a cup [...]