Category: Food Stories

La Belle Assiette; Reading

La Belle Assiette; Reading

When it comes to research, my curiosity knows no bounds especially when it comes to food. So, when private chef agency La Belle Assiette asked if I’d like to review their services of course, I said yes. But I was a bit anxious about it […]

Renovation at HQ

Renovation at HQ

I recently had my kitchen renovated. Well, it was a couple of months ago now but I’m still tweaking and styling, and a little bit traumatised by the whole experience. The spiritual and practical HQ of our household, I don’t think I was truly prepared […]

Food Hero: Made for Drink

Food Hero: Made for Drink

It could have been anywhere really, but Dan Featherstone and his team chose Maidenhead to be the HQ of the Made for Drink company. What started in his kitchen a few years ago, soon became prodigious cook-ups in the community hall at Waltham St Lawrence. […]

Damson in Distress

Damson in Distress

The ancient Syrian city of Damascus has given us many gifts over the years, giving its name to a number of wonderful and unusual things like damask fabric, the decorative inlay of metals called damascening, a type of fancy pigeon, moments of revelation called “Damascene […]

Priya Tailor’s Pop-up Restaurant: Maidenhead

Priya Tailor’s Pop-up Restaurant: Maidenhead

After dabbling in dining room supper clubs locally and in London, self-taught cook and mother-of-one Priya Tailor, decided that it was time to launch her first pop-up restaurant in Maidenhead. With 24 guests seated at the rustic timber tables of Saint’s Cafe, starters from the […]

Local Food (and Beer) Hero: Taplow’s Moog Brew

Local Food (and Beer) Hero: Taplow’s Moog Brew

There’s a change in the wind and a whisper in the streets of  Taplow. It wasn’t until I visited the home, tiny beer-garden and micro-brewery of Margi and Id, founders of  Moog Brew that I realised how incredible their enterprise really is. Trading for 2 […]

Thali and Street Food in Southall

Thali and Street Food in Southall

He doesn’t know it, but in the last few months I’ve developed a co-dependent relationship with Gordon Ramsay. At first I watched for the explosive drama and classic Ramsay expletives, but then I got hooked on the catch phrases of surprise and expressions of disgust. […]

How We Do BBQ

How We Do BBQ

I grew up watching my dad catch and cook snapper on barbecues made with cypress pine which smelled divine as it burned. He’d brush on his special mix of lemon juice and olive oil that would splatter onto the white-hot ashes sending smoke up through the […]

Local Food Hero: The Marlow Cheese Co.

Local Food Hero: The Marlow Cheese Co.

Cheese is a funny thing. The way we appreciate a fine cheese rather goes against the grain. Mould makes it more marvellous and the worse it smells the better it is. That’s how I knew the Cygnet cheese from The Marlow Cheese Co. was going to be a […]

Food Hero: Rex Bakery

Food Hero: Rex Bakery

Ok, so this one is not local, but it’s not that far away. Today I want to sing the praises of Glenn Stephens founder of the Rex Artisan Bakery in Little Chalfont. I want to shout to the roof-tops that I finally found a worthy […]