BLOG Glam Pizza Club It is always good to have a longstanding friend that owns a nightclub. Six years ago Super Cool Wife and I had our joint hen / stag do at 'Glam' in Buenos Aries and last night we were back for a pre-wedding groove for a couple of our dearest friends. Of course my mind was straight to food and while others photographed the happy couple I headed for the kitchen, except there was not one. Instead a pop up pizza factory had landed in the back of club to produce "Pizza a la Piedra" bathed in di
BLOG The aeroplane community...... I have yet to put my finger on it, there is something about a plane ride that is both beautifully and peculiarly social.Maybe it is because you fall asleep with two hundred people you have never met before? Or you eat three meals out a plastic container in a confined space with complete strangers? Maybe the person next to me will take too much? Maybe we won't talk enough and they will think I don't like them?I always worry that I will snore in my sleep and the stranger next to me will suffer (I
BLOG Risotto it is as simple or as difficult as that. I was very lucky growing up, when I say growing up I mean between the age of 20 and 30. I spent a lot of time making risotto and it turned from a product to an art. I still have not perfected the art but I practice every chance I get. There is hardly anything to risotto - rice, onions, garlic, wine, stock and salt 'n' pepper. How hard it that? Very. I was taught how to make this dish by Hugh, one of the best people I have ever worked with in my life, (we used to go mountain biking together until
BLOG #techandtaste Food Parcel's & Blogging Where were you when #techandtaste happened? This is what people will ask you in years to come! This blogging event rocked, it quickly engaged with a key group of people from different walks of life, all brought together by their words and their Internet. This is why I LOVE blogging and blogger events, the last Blog Camp event saw "mummy bloggers" a group of particularly amazing people brought together by the Internet. London Bloggers Meet Up has consistently pulled together an eclectic mix o
BLOG Eating people - this is where is begun.... Really I am very ashamed, I started writing this travel and food blog years ago and have actually posted less than there have been ash clouds in that time. Actually if I ONLY wrote a travel and food blog I’d be as happy as shipwrecked sailor in a brothel with an Amex card. The blog would have to pay for all the travel and food of course - the issue is not that a desire to be rich, it is a desire to travel everywhere. Also, as those of you near me will know, I can't stop eating and that is an exp
BLOG ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen.......' ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen: his trip displaces the landscape and his version of events is all that matters. He is certainly kidding himself in this, but if he didn’t kid himself a little he would never go anywhere.’ Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea
BLOG Falling towards Argentina #LBM If I could drive anywhere in the world right now I’d drive to a book shop and pick up another copy of “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatiwn then armed with my video camera I’d pop down to Argentina and follow in Chatwin’s footspteps. On the journey I would stop at each place Chatwin did and find someone to cook a local dish from with and video the making of the dish. I’d upload it on my blog with all the ingredients so “the folks at home could cook along”. What is amazing abou
