Havering

Pie – (noun) ‘A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry’. There has been a large amount of debate around pies recently that I for one, have no desire [...]

The water may be getting icy as the darkness of autumn lengthens, but for much of Scotland’s seafood this is coming into the optimum season. As the oily fish of spring and summer begin to become [...]

I’m eternally grateful to live in a country which has autumns. Bringing with it a rhapsody of colours as the season progresses, nature at its finest in a final flourish before hibernation, I [...]

Autumn is a season filled with romance and nostalgia. There’s nothing quite like a walk through a city park painted in oranges, reds, and auburns, or along a country path dripping with brambles [...]

As an adult, how often do we truly get to experience something new, for the first time? So many new experiences are simply a variation on the old. As I contemplate this fact I realise that my [...]

The cuisine of the people of Scotland has long been a self-deprecating joke about deep fried food, a loathing of anything green and all washed down with any liquid on the yellow to brown [...]

Travel and holiday has always meant food for me. Whether paella cooked over orange wood in Valencia, oysters from Étang de Thau, or squats lobsters from Applecross, its always been about first [...]

I used to spend a lot of my childhood holidays in and around Aviemore but I’ve not been to the town in about twenty five years. I think that might need to change in the near future with a [...]

Slow Food – the international, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world – is launching its new Glasgow group with a campaign to encourage Glaswegians to grow their own food. [...]

Leftovers were a staple for me during my childhood in the west of Scotland. I probably didn’t even know the term existed; we just took it for granted that any food which was left would be reused. [...]