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Our own concoction: the Big Mac-aroon.

Review: Waitrose Cookery School

If you’re still on the hunt for Christmas pressies for foodie friends or family or you want to know what to do with Boxing Day leftovers, you may want to check out the new Waitrose Cookery School, a first for the premium supermarket chain which …

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Competition Reminder: Leon 2 and the Giant Drawer of Wishes

Don’t forget to make a wish in Leon’s Giant Drawer of Wishes competition! You’ve got until Tuesday the 31st of August. To celebrate the launch of its second cookbook, simply titled Naturally Fast Food, London’s fast but healthy restaurant chain – Leon – has teamed …

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Sponsored Post: Leon 2 and the Giant Drawer of Wishes

To celebrate the launch of its second cookbook, London’s fast but healthy restaurant chain – Leon – has teamed up with Octopus Publishing Group to make one lucky person’s wish come true! The new book, simply titled Naturally Fast Food, includes a section devoted to a chest of drawers in …

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Last Minute Listing: Festival Of Herbs

Get the lowdown on cooking, eating, applying and growing herbs at King Henrys Walk Garden tomorrow afternoon. We dig this tucked away community garden and have everything crossed for good weather so that you can peruse the diverse planting and plots and stroll around in …

Photograph of Jun Tanaka courtesy of Pearl Restaurant & Bar

Chefspective: Jun Tanaka, Executive Chef at Pearl Restaurant & Bar

Photograph of Jun Tanaka courtesy of Pearl Restaurant & Bar Here’s a quick Q&A with Pearl Restaurant & Bar’s Executive Chef, Jun Tanaka, whose Michelin-starred experience seems to exceed his youth. Jun’s modern take on French cuisine along with the backing of the bar’s inventive …

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Slow Club Diary: End Of Week 5

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. Homemade cheesecake certainly is slow – but baking it didn’t always make me smile! When I read that the slow task was to make something with my hands, it was like waving a …

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Come Dine With You?

Competitive cooks of South East London brace yourselves: Come Dine With Me – the best reason to work from home these days – needs a bunch of hugely ill-matched, foodily ambitious contestants for the new series. Best if you’re deluded about your ability to put …

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Roving Chef

Recommending the Roving Chef is a piece of cake. In fact, we just finished having a piece of her moist and delicious pound cake before writing this review. Roving Chef is a one woman operation offering cookery classes “in your own home.” The one woman, …

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Roast Broccoli Salad Recipe with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk

Here’s another simply scrumptious recipe from Eat Drink Talk‘s Jennifer Klinec, a tasty one we’ve tried and loved. If you’re not one for broccoli, Ms Klinec suggests substituting purple sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts or cauliflower. The recipe is certainly good to keep in mind when …

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Interview with Jonathan Parker, Founder of Foodie Social Networking Site Foodari

Here’s a quick interview with Jonathan Parker, founder of the recipe-rich and cookery-wise social networking site Foodari. Jonathan reckons Foodari (dubbed a “The 21st century cookbook” by The Guardian) offers its members the “ultimate cookery experience on the web.” How’s that? Let’s find out! What …

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STEAK! with Cheese and Biscuits Blogger Chris Pople

One of London’s most noted food bloggers, Chris Pople, recently opened his home to Londonist to sample what he suggested would be the “best steak you’ll ever have (in the UK).” Having a look at his April 2007 “Steak!” post on his Cheese and Biscuits …