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 A few days ago on twitter Lisa Abend drew my attention to a foie gras funding project. Yes foie gras, the duck or goose liver that is utterly sublime but sets off ethical alarm bells, as the animals are force fed vast amounts of corn in order to get the buttery consistency and bright . . . → Read More: Give a goose man your support During the first episode of the television programme Rick Stein’s Spain he says that you need to seek out good Spanish food. This I find rather bizarre as I always feel good Spanish food generally falls on top of me. It chases me though markets, tiny bars, old hold in the wall restaurants, new . . . → Read More: 10 Tips on Eating in Spain.  The wine blogger Denise Medrano once described me as feeling that my mission is ‘to bring the other cuisines of Spain to London’ Tapas are wonderful things to go out and eat in bars of an evening, but in Spanish homes families rarely make 15 different small dishes to share round a table. In . . . → Read More: Rick Stein’s Spain As you may or may not know, a few months ago we had The London Gran Calçotada. Calçots are a great Catalan institution and are in season from the end of November to the middle of April. The past decade has seen calcotadas become popular all over Spain and the season extend by . . . → Read More: The London Gran Calcotada Photos The Pope is in Spain on an official visit, one of the reasons for this is to inaugurate the Sagrada Familia, one of the most popular and expensive tourist sites in Barcelona. The protests against the Pontiff’s trip have been numerous but seemed to me, at least, to have more relevance than the ones . . . → Read More: The Pope in Barcelona  This moment of self-realisation provokes a headache, a bout of self-pity and a subsequent need for something sweet. In the end I make bunyols. They are small Catalan doughnuts and I make sweet ones. I feel too sorry for myself to attempt a trip out to the shops to buy a bottle of anise, and indeed fear my desire to prove myself worthy of the title of honorary anarchist in public, so I use rose water and sweet Pedro Ximenez sherry instead. . . . → Read More: Anarchism, La Diada, Doughnuts and me  As you all may or may not know I am not a fan of Anthony Bourdain. He is the poster boy for The Pseudo Macho Dick Waving school of cooking where everyman thinks he (invariably it’s a man) is some hell raising swash buckling rock’n'roll pirate, when more often than not they are slightly effete middle class young men who chop onions for a living or aspire to. Rather than an outre expose of the restaurant scene I found Kitchen Confidential . . . → Read More: The Questions People Ask |
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