Hundreds of alien-like crustaceans were crawling around in the trays in front of me, pincers waving in the air, tiny legs clicking all over each other’s backs and bodies…

This country seems to suffer from a lack of understanding when it comes to Asian cuisine, complex flavours often bypassed in favour of spice and heat. Maybe that’s why I’ve always found it difficult to have much of a fondness for Indian food. It could also be because it’s so [...]

Everybody from Frank Sinatra to Jay-Z has extolled the virtues and bemoaned the vices of New York City. This being my first trip to NYC, I decided to spend a day traipsing across town eating everything in sight.

Eastern Standard is apparently the restaurant that the big-name chefs go to when they’re in Boston. The food is said to be innovative and consistently good, ever changing but always memorable. Jackie investigates…

Taco Haven, San Antonio, is not a place you want to stand out when you are British, Asian, and photographing the food. It is, however, a place to enjoy barbacoa, aka cow’s face. So Jackie sets down her camera, and tucks in.

As a school girl I was extraordinarily lucky. My passion for the arts was cultivated from a young age with access to all of the London attractions at hugely discounted rates. One school chum had a rather famous father who, at the time, was the artist in residence at The [...]

The Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas, the infamous barbecue joint, serving up smoky, tender, flaking pieces of meat and tangy beans to red-faced, beer-swilling men, and Jackie Lee. Welcome to Woman vs. Food…