“I gotta get better at plate-up Tony, I literally suck at this – how the fuck do you do it”? I stared down at what looked like a pile of elephant crap on the pristine white flat-to-rim plate. This was my own personal favourite plate type, a ‘God’s-beard-white’ with just a slight cross groove running… Read More “Plate this Bourdain”….Indian Vegetable Curry
Andrea’s hands are powerful, they have a vice-like grip that panics me……but at the same time her touch is soft and comforting. She has a firm grasp of my right bicep..my lower arm is turning blue as she talks loudly and at great speed in dialect to her partner in crime Teresa. My limited Italian… Read More Fresh pasta and learning to cook ‘at source’
I’m very much affected by the weather, my kitchen is equally affected……as is my garden – which at the moment is lifeless and bare. I’m in mourning for it and I long for when it is yellow and green and red and white again and I can wander through it executing slugs, caressing baby courgettes… Read More The very ultimate of pies – Venison
I spend about 4 weeks in Italy every year and each time I am taught something incredible by my Italian relatives in Puglia – literally standing over Nonna Macchitella’s shoulder as she deftly creates incredible Southern Italian classics. These bad boys will knock your socks off – Gnocchi or ‘little lumps’ are an amazing alternative… Read More Herb and cheesy Gnocchi
The Bicycle Thief 