Lettuce Soup and more – a collection of Romanian recipes. During lockdown we travel to foreign climes in our imaginations and our kitchens, our palettes traversing borders, opening our minds to new taste experiences. Visuals help too so a cookbook with evocative photographs is a boon. Carpathia: Food From the Heart of Romania is one […]
Flor de Cana Rum and Good Together by Mr Lyan – Review
A Smashing Little Devil of a Rum Cocktail with Flor de Cana: I’m a big fan of the cocktail maestro and bar impresario and Ryan Chetiyawardana (he calls himself Mr Lyan). His Tom Dixon designed bar Dandelyan in the Mondrian Hotel on the South Bank is ranked at number one in the World’s 50 Best […]
Simple Summer Food from Eating Well Everyday
Salmon and Goats Cheese Omelette – a review of Eating Well Everyday: I tend to run shy of chef recipe books – I generally find the recipes are too complicated for everyday and too high risk for entertaining. But Eating Well Everyday by Peter Gordon caught my eye – and, breaking my own rule, I was delighted […]