Food Meets Art: Valeria Napoleone
Douglas Blyde meets Valeria Napoleone; cook, collector, curator and food lover, and is led through her home for a tour of her collection and a saunter through her new book…
Browsing: The Foodie
Dukes Hotel & the Vesper Martini
You might have noticed that Bond is doing the rounds, and if you were keeping…
Death by Burrito
The rain hammers down in cruel sheets as I wander the cold, hard streets looking for the elusive dive bar. I’m using Googlemaps, but the technology seems to be playing wicked games
Notes on Game & A Recipe for a Wintry Venison and Juniper Braise
So did you catch it? Shoot it? Pluck it? Draw it? Interrogate your butcher about…
Royal China Club
“The lobsters are the most generously proportioned I’ve ever seen. They sit in huge tanks in the centre of the restaurant, beautiful and languid and blissfully unaware that there’s a small Chinese man coming towards them with a portable net in his right hand…”
Locanda dell’Isola Comacina
“There’s that moment after dessert when the restaurant owner wheels out a flaming pan of liquor coffee in order to stop anyone dying from a medieval curse…” All in an evening’s dining, if you’re on an island in the middle of Lake Como.
The Game Season
“It’s autumn and I am writing about food for The Arb. Two facts which mean I am pretty much morally obliged to do a piece about cooking and eating game…” The Arbuturian’s very own Mrs Beeton, Angela Clutton, gives us a few facts and tips on autumnal fare…
The Skyfall
“Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina…
The Hampshire Hog
The Hampshire Hog. The name resonates with Englishness. You feel like it should be said by some portly, ancient chap wearing a cravat and a smoking cap as he reminisces about misspent student days in ‘The Hog’.
The Hinds Head
Chocolate wine first appeared on the English culinary scene in the 1660s, soon after the arrival of chocolate itself, which was known during the reign of Charles II as “the Indian nectar.”
The Burlington Social Club
Italians do it better. I could have told you that myself, yet last time Pret…
Sausages with Pumpkin Mash
It’s the end of October and you can’t swing a black cat without hitting something…