“Persiana” by Sabrina Ghayour is a most beautiful cookbook full of amazing recipes and fantastically mouth watering photographs of food. It’s subtitle is “Recipes from the Middle East and Beyond”. The Author ‘Sabrina’; ‘Private Chef, Supper Club Host, Cookery Teacher & Writer’ tells us that “Food is a staple of life and every day should be…
The Big Soup – Hairy Dieters ‘Eat for Life’
Hairy Dieters Eat for Life Book by Si King and Dave Myers is the second one of their weight control series. Self designated on the cover as “The Hairy Dieters Eat for Life How to Love Food, Lose Weight and Keep it Off for Good!” you would be forgiven for thinking it is just another…
Munching on Maxines Mobile Pizza at Bakewell Farmer’s Market
At the Bakewell Farmer’s Market I found myself at Maxine’s Mobile Pizza having been stopped in my tracks by a Chalkboard advertising some sort of delightful food to be sampled, in this case Hand Made Wood Fired Pizza, and a mobile pizza oven from which the smell of freshly cooking pizza was drawing a small crowd. Maxine’s Mobile…
Sampling some South African Street Food with a Bunny Chow from the the ‘Now Now Company’
At the East Midlands Chilli Festival in Newark Nottinghamshire we met up with the NowNow Food Company to eat some of their Bunny Chow. A Bunny Chow is a hollowed out bread bowl commonly filled with curries, which was the case here on the NowNow stall where they had a Durban Chicken Curry, they also had a Bobotie filling…
Wild Caper at Brixton Market
Wild Caper in the Brixton Market is a small café that is mainly selling Eastern Mediterranean food. I was really tempted to try some of their Meze dishes especially the ‘Meatballs Saganaki’ essentially Beef meatballs with a tomato sauce and melted Kaseri cheese for £5. We also really fancied the Pork Belly wrap for £4.75 which was a…
Day 5 China – Time to try those Ducks hanging in the window
In the evenings as I walked along the street by the hotel I kept on seeing places that were selling BBQ meats and poultry. The whole ducks were hanging in the windows and they looked so tasty I felt that I had to stop in and try some at one of the places. Which one?…
China Day 4: Back to Dongmen Pedestrian Market for more Street Food.
I did say that I was coming back to the Dongmen Pedestrian Market to try some more of their street food and as I was passing by during lunch I just stopped in and bought one quick snack which turned out to be quite a decent little bite. That ‘little’ bite was a ‘Jianbing’, 煎饼…
China Day 3: Dongmen Pedestrian Market – Street Food in Shenzhen
Now this is more like it! I had to find some thing really local and I wanted to find something on the streets, so I did a little searching and found myself at the Dongmen Pedestrian Market. I was expecting something more old world, something on a small narrow street down a dark alley. What…
China Day 2: In Food Memory Dreamland – Finding some Hubei Food from Wuhan in Shenzhen
It is my Second full day in Shenzhen and during a business meeting it transpired that my business associate Wesley was from Hubei, the area that I had once lived for 6 months a few years back (well when I said a few it was 1998). We talked fondly of the food from that area…
China Day 1: Searching for Food memories in Shenzhen China – Soup and Dumplings
Although I was primarily visiting Shenzhen in China on a business trip I was hoping to search and capture some food memories of Chinese Food that I ate back in the late 90’s when I worked in China for a while after completing my PhD at the Chinese Academy of Science in Wuhan. I was hard to believe that it really…
My Food Hunt 