Food

Cuisine

The only time I ever saw this on a restaurant menu I was somewhat disappointed to find that half the ingredients seemed to be missing. Read more...

Floyd's memorial lunch

It's been a while since I cooked any Asian food and for anything serious some basic supplies are required. Last weekend I visited one of the local Asian mini-marts, Read more...

"I've not felt this well for ages", Keith Floyd RIP

Brought up on Fanny Craddock and the Galloping Gourmet Keith Floyd was something of a revelation, entertaining to watch with an obvious love for cooking he kept it simple Read more...

Beefburgers

Tynan Wierd is an occasional reporter on local papers in the North East and is a copywriter for local marketing agencies. He is currently based in Northallerton, Yorkshire. Read more...

Kitchen Fires, What Not To Do

Cooking lunch for friends recently I offered them a choice of courses, stupidly I put crispy seaweed on. This dish is in fact cabbage, but don't ask me which, the one I used was a little too pale inside, I would suggest a dark green one, but any type of green-leafed brassica will do.

Gastronomy

elufood of the Fine Food Network

The following is an 'advertorial' for a friend, Stefano Pesce's business elufood here in Italy. If some of the language seems odd it's because he wrote it, and he's not English.

Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between culture and food. It is often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking (see Culinary Arts), but this is only a small part of this discipline; it cannot always be said that a cook is also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies various cultural components with food as its central axis. Thus it is related to the Fine Arts and Social Sciences, and even to the Natural Sciences in terms of the digestive system of the human body.