“See this,” says skipper Donald Anderson as he prizes open the mouth of  a catfish to reveal a jagged set of needlepoint teeth. ” This’ll take your hand off. They live on the bottom of the sea and feed off shells, which is why their teeth are so sharp. Like razor-blades.” It’s just turned 6am […]

Last week’s culinary shenanigans in a few pictures. This is why I am getting fat.

On Saturday food blogger extraordinaire Helen Graves and I teamed up to do a mezze stall at the Warwick Wingding in Peckham. We’d been talking about what to do for a couple of months, with an original plan to make cold jerk chicken sandwiches being replaced by an idea to create tempting Ottolenghi-style salads and […]

As you might have gathered from previous posts, I was in Vietnam in April – larking about and eating as much as I could. My love affair with Vietnamese food started long before that, when I first tasted beef wrapped in betal leaf at Song Que on the Kingsland Road about four years prior, but […]

July 2nd was the fifth anniversary of my dad’s death, and I couldn’t concentrate on work. So I decided to cook, and I wanted to create a dish that I could enjoy that night and remember my dad by – an incredible man and father who was so much fun and so life-loving. One of […]

Croissants from Fusion cafe, Sheffield For my first contribution to the MSN and Sainsburys food website, I wrote a top ten of ultimate breakfasts in the UK, finally managing to cover the Malvern Guest House in Deal, which has over 60 breakfast options (including ‘burger breakfast’). You can view the top ten here over at […]

I wrote about edible flowers and their proliferation on this year’s summer menus for The Metro. Pun-tastic!

Opening up the previously members-only restaurant and bar Paramount at Centre Point to the general (if smartly dressed) public was a bloody good idea.  The views are immense. Like on the way up to Windows, your ears pop in the lift to the 32nd floor, and when you step out it’s like you’ve been transported […]