heston blumenthal’s sound of the sea
Heston Blumenthal’s Sound of the Sea is dish that defines the Michelin-starred chef. I’ll be trying to recreate it.
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the menu film review
The Menu is a thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult set in the world of top-end fine dining. You don’t see many film review on this blog but I thought this was worth doing! The Menu unfolds like a tense play, taking place almost entirely within the dining room of an extremely exclusive restaurant. It is bound […]
Read moremy favourite cookbooks of 2022
Gifting time is here! Check out my choices for the cookbooks of the year. It feels like we are travelling through our cookbooks, more and more. Vicariously going long-haul as we find ourselves constrained in the pocket. Scrolling through lists of the best selling food books of the year finds us leaping from country to country. Amazon’s bestsellers reads more […]
Read moreadam ragusea’s broccoli in garlic sauce
This vaguely American-Chinese recipe for broccoli in garlic sauce is solely, unashamedly and wholesale lifted from Adam Ragusea. Go watch the video for it here, it’s great. I’ve cooked it a bunch and I love the powerful, salty sauce you make. I only reproduce it in my blog because it’s easier for me to browse the ingredients here than it […]
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