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Daniel is busy in the middle of Rosh Hashanah celebrations (for the Jewish New Year), so we don’t have his regular BFD column. He writes: Hi guys Some of the meal from last night’s festive feast. Filet mignon topped with papad [poppadum], red wine and pomegranate sauce on
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The empanada is a popular finger food eaten with different fillings throughout South America. Empanada comes from the Spanish empanar, which translates to English as ‘breaded’ or something wrapped in bread. Depending on where you are geographically, you will find empanadas with a wide variety of fillings such as beef,
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Everything has an interesting story behind it, even the simple homemade carrot cake. Carrot cake first appeared during World War II in Great Britain, where “housewives” were forced to use natural sweet products to sweeten their cakes due to the lack of available sugar. In 1943 the British War Ministry
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Old Ljubljana is the picturesque capital of Slovenia, a relatively new Balkan nation state fashioned in 1991 from the western corner of the now disintegrated communist Yugoslavia. Populated in the late sixth century AD by Alpine Slavs (or Slovenes), they have a long history of subjugation by Germanic types: first
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There are a hundred variations of the oatmeal biscuit: some more successful than others. Oatmeal, the significant ingredient in the biscuit, we all remember well as a staple for breakfast in the form of porridge a long, long time ago. Great for winter, it filled the kids up and shut
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When cooking for official dinners and banquets, juggling the different courses, oven times and plating can often be a little stressful. Last minute demands, confusion and miscommunications over dietary needs are always a disaster waiting to happen. Vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, no garlic, no onion… There’s often someone waiting to
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The Milanese veal cutlet, as the story (and there are many of them) is told, was discovered by an Austrian general on a military campaign against North Western Italy in the 19th century (most of Europe was fighting itself during this period; actually, Europe has been fighting itself since spears
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Right now we are smack bang in the middle of summer here in Israel. The coastal areas are suffering their usual extremely nasty heat and humidity. Meanwhile just 40 kilometres away in Jerusalem the days are hot but dry and really quite bearable. Jerusalem evenings it seems were custom made
