Finally – curing salo, pork back fat.
After days, weeks and even months of telling everyone about the wonder I’ve been curing in my fridge – Ladies and gentlemen… Ukrainian salo, or cured pork fat. THE combination - cured salo and black...
View ArticleMaltby street market, Bermondsey.
On Thursday 23rd December, I got up at 6.30 in the morning, and was already ‘on location’ at 9 o’clock – under the bridge arches near Tower Hill, London. The streets were freezing, empty – and only a...
View Article‘Moon’– Estonian food with a (hi)story
What is the typical Estonian cuisine? I often get asked upon accidentally dropping my place of origin, a tiny country an hour’s ferry drive from Helsinki, with history and pride that stretch its petite...
View ArticleOxford Food Symposium, or how to find similar-bellied friends whilst tasting...
‘How do you feed hundred people with one goat? You can’t. You need to ferment the meat of one goat to feed the crowd’ a Sudanese saying quoted by Harrold McGee. When faced with an enormity of task to...
View ArticleA mediaval chelly
Do you know what these brown creatures are? Mysterious fruit. These are medlars – plum-size, apple-like fruits that originated in Asia (and possibly South-Eastern Europe) that used to be very common on...
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