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Custom M&M's. Feels like we've done the custom sweets to death already but you never know.
- Seasons - For the iPhone seasonsapp.com
Seasons brings all the information you need to you to make the right decisions when choosing your food during shopping or at the restaurant. Live greener with buying local and seasonal products.
Ping Pong now delivering to homes and offices. Happy and sad that they can't reach my house yet.
- Crumbs and Doilies Cupcakes crumbsanddoilies.co.uk
Spiritual home - or, at the very least, London pied à terre - of the cupcake.
Via nickandjess.
- Enjoymentland » Locavore enjoymentland.com
"Knowing what’s available in your area at a given time of year is often difficult to determine, so we’ve taken on the task of collecting data from a variety of sources and presenting it all in the most understandable of ways. The Locavore iPhone app will come in handy next time you’re at the market and want to know what’s actually being grown near you, and what is most likely to taste the best right now." US-only, mind.
Soufflé? Pah. Recipe for hot chocolate puddings further down.
- Poilâne, boulangerie en ligne poilane.fr
We source our sea salt from Guérande. Our flour is exclusively stone-ground. We work closely with our flour makers to use the very best varieties of wheat. And, we use a piece of dough from the previous batch of bread – the sourdough – as a starter for the next batch. The type of oven used to bake bread is also important. We bake our breads in wood-fired ovens. These ovens are fed with waste wood that cannot be used for any other industry.
- Jack O'Shea - Butcher jackoshea.com
- Mestizo - Restaurant & Tequila Bar mestizomx.com
My new favourite place. Great food, amazing range of excellent tequila.
My new favourite place. Great food, amazing range of excellent tequila.
- The new vegetarian: Yotam Ottolenghi makes chickpea, tomato and bread soup | Life and style | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
My new favourite winter recipe. Making the pesto from scratch adds a fair amount to the prep time.
- London Reivew of Breakfasts: London Google Map maps.google.com
This is an ongoing project and doesn't yet contain all of the places we've reviewed, so please carry on using the 'Browse by area' section on the website.
"There's nothing quite like a proper homemade chutney or pickle to add a welcome crunch or hit of spice to all manner of dishes". Oh yes, it's chutney-making season.
Linking people who want to grow their own food to space where they can grow it
Via headlessness.
- Mexican Rice recipe – All recipes UK allrecipes.co.uk
- stuffed butternut squash with spinach & couscous - Vegetable Side Dishes - Recipes - Riverford Organic Vegetables riverford.co.uk
Would have expected this to taste more exciting based on the number of ingredients. Ho hum.
- National Greasy Caff Database - Welcome! caffs.co.uk
Eritrean and East-African restaurant on Essex Road.
- Paul.A.Young fine chocolates paulayoung.co.uk
Raw Scotch beef with land cress, parsley & capers, Roast hake with artichoke & roast tomato, Lemon salad, Quaking pudding.
- The Ebury, Pimlico, Restaurant and bar theebury.co.uk
- URBANBITE.com - The new way to takeaway urbanbite.com
- Gothamist: Baking Substitutions gothamist.com
Handy substitutions you can make for common baking ingredients
- Knobbly needs | Weekend | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Jerusalem artichokes may not look up to much, but beneath that gnarled exterior is a nutty, sweet vegetable that's a welcome treat in the winter kitchen
- The 'sunflower' artichoke - Times Online women.timesonline.co.uk
"It was by reading Fergus Henderson’s book Nose to Tail Eating that I made the discovery that char-grilling a Jerusalem artichoke really brings out its sweet flavour." Recipe for Warm chicken, Jerusalem artichoke and caper salad.
- Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - New York Times nytimes.com
"Because the stomachs of cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain, cattle raised industrially thrive only in the sense that they gain weight quickly. This diet made it possible to remove cattle from their natural environment and encourage the efficienc
- Home | St. JOHN, St. JOHN Restaurant Smithfield, St. JOHN Bread & Wine Spitalfields, London dining, nose to tail eating, london restaurant stjohnbreadandwine.com
"Bread and Wine inhabits a smaller space than it's larger sister and is thought of as being less formal with a menu structured toward sharing plates amongst guests." Great meat, nice staff, reasonable prices.
- Guardian food month: Christmas dinner in a pie lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk
Mmmm.
- Lovefoodhatewaste.com - Tips and recipes to reduce food waste lovefoodhatewaste.com
- KitchenBug kitchenbug.com
KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way.
- Official: organic really is better - Times Online timesonline.co.uk
The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice.
- Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health - Independent Online Edition > Health news.independent.co.uk
"A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage." Great timing.
- What can I make? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Is there a website that lets you input the contents of your cupboard and fridge, then shows you recipies you can make with what you have?
- A menace to science | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
"For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in." Nice one!
- Nigel Slater: Chorizos to be cheerful | Magazine | The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk
"Spicy, paprika-infused Spanish pork sausages". So yeah, the vegetarian thing is going well so far.
It's no longer enough for a restaurant to flag up its organic credentials. Now chefs are trying to make sure that every part of their operation is eco-friendly - even if that means employing worms to help with the rubbish.
We claim to be a nation of foodies, yet vegetables still mystify many cooks - especially those weird specimens that turn up in the weekly organic box. What exactly do you do with chard or salsify? Do turnips have to be a turnoff?
- Acorn House Restaurant acornhouserestaurant.com
Eco restaurant, King's Cross
- Deliverance deliverance.co.uk
Chocolaterie now open in Islington.
- Celia Brooks Brown's Gastrotours celiabrooksbrown.com
All of my Gastrotours are a unique opportunity to join me for an insider's view of London's vibrant culinary hotspots.