Canapés seldom travel alone. An event that is worth one’s salt will have three to five different competing canapés offering a cornucopia of tastes, colours and textures. This week’s addition is a small phyllo pastry basket filled with a mushroom and tomato mix topped off with shaved parmigiano
You never know when the next cocktail party will appear on the calendar or when your better half without warning invites home a baker’s dozen of business colleagues or clients for drinks with a need for something a little more classy than salty chips and peanuts from the supermarket.
Pancakes are one of the oldest known foodstuffs, made from cereals in prehistoric societies. Pancakes were being flipped and consumed circa 4000 BC when ‘writing’ was in its embryonic stage and the Bronze Age was just kicking off. The pancake is a very diverse food made since forever all over
Hanukkah is the Jewish eight day winter time “Festival of Lights”. It is celebrated by a nightly lighting of candles, special prayers and the rather unhealthy tradition of eating fried foods. The festival celebrates the “miracle” that the oil in the lamp in the Jerusalem Temple lasted for eight days
Open Sesame Sesame has been cultivated by man for thousands of years, used as an oil, eaten as a sweet (halva), enjoyed as a dip (tehina), preferred as a crust on a tasty slice of pan-fried Atlantic bluefin tuna and appearing often at #12 as Crispy Sesame Chicken on your
It would seem that all things good and rewarding come packaged as a tort/torte. Tort law is there to redress a wrong done to a person and provide relief, something beneficial… while the German torte is there not only to provide relief and make a person feel great but
Little good news comes out of Iran these days. It was once the seat of the Peacock Throne and the home of a glorious long line of shahs. A fascinating tourist destination that any of us would have given our right hand to spend time travelling in; it features unbelievable
