Archive for July, 2007
Covent Garden Stages the Capitals First Ever Night Market
Covent Garden will return to its roots as the original larder of London this August when the iconic location hosts the first ever night market in the city. Londoners can stop for an alfresco bite in the atmospheric surroundings of hops and hay bails or pick up some quality fare on their way home for [...]
Oil and More
I’m not sure where you start when choosing olive oils - the supermarkets have various brands, the delis have dozens of estate bottled and generally expensive oils too. Several wine merchants offer olive oils made by wine producers whose wines they list (see Surf4wine for an example).
There is one olive oil specialist on-line, Oil [...]
British Sausage Week
A while to go yet until British Sausage Week; but many thanks to Eating Leeds for the discovery of the accompanying website.
It is the 10th Anniversary of British Sausage Week and to mark the occasion, which runs from the 15th to the 21st October, The British Sausage Week roadshow will be touring the country [...]
UK Blog Watch: Ambrosia and Nectar
Annemarie requested that her Ambrosia and Nectar blog was added to the UK Food and Wine Blog list; a delight to do so, Annemarie.
Based in London Annemarie writes
Ambrosia and Nectar is a food blog written by a dedicated food obsessive who plans her next meal before finishing the current one. Thinking about, cooking, [...]
Aztecs Chillies
Pre-conquest those Aztecs, down Mexico way, had a diet pretty much like that of today.
Archiologists have discovered ten different varieties of chillies in caves in the Valley of Oaxaca. Inhabited from 500AD through to 1500 the different varieties show that they were integral to the diet. Arid conditions through the centuries prevented decay of [...]