How to eat a Michelin-starred chef’s food at home during lockdown
Frugality has been a keyword in my kitchen during lockdown – buying whatever ingredients have been available in the shops and making the most…
Frugality has been a keyword in my kitchen during lockdown – buying whatever ingredients have been available in the shops and making the most…
Home-cooking has taken on a new feel during these locked-down days. We make do with tired vegetables that have been languishing in the fridge,…
Gnawing on a bone should surely be enshrined as a basic entitlement in human rights legislation. Few eating experiences match the pleasure of finding…
There was a time when the Bull was popular with journalists from the old Birmingham & Mail headquarters in Colmore Circus. This was mainly…
Some restaurants simply know what they’re about. They don’t seek to dazzle with adventurous combinations of ingredients, complicated modernist cooking processes or presentation that…
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, good restaurants are about feeding people well. Yet too often frippery gets in the way, with…
Back through the mists of time, before I’d started school and when we lived our lives solely in monochrome while listening to George Formby…
Not many years have passed since I mocked vegetarianism in my restaurant reviews, resorting lazily to cliches about its followers and their sandals knitted…
On Saturday morning, I gave myself a good talking to. And, were I not irreversibly opposed to violence of all sorts, I may well…
Whitebait and marie rose sauce – a dish straight out of a 1970s cookbook and one that might draw sneers from snooty food lovers….