Events that are not regular happenings
Fermentation Sensation As a fan of Masterchef, I have been lucky to meet a few contestants and eat their food and in some cases, become their friend too. One of these is the lovely Josephine O’Hare, whom I first met about a year ago when I attended her regular supper club Hare on the Hill in Clapham and loved it. Since then we’ve been in touch and have become friends, but I had not been able (for reasons obvious to…
Summer fruit… Cherries hail the arrival of the summer season, and are one of my favourite fruit…Recently in fact, I have literally stuffed my face with plenty of them, here in London and when visiting Italy. In Sardinia for example, we picked up a local, small and dark variety which was absolutely fantastic, while often, especially when buying from big chain supermarkets, I end up disappointed with cherries that lack in flavour. Basically, varieties of cherry make a huge difference…
Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert Refettorio Felix is Massimo Bottura’s latest charitable and sustainable effort, part of the project launched at the Milano expo a couple of years ago called Refettorio through the non profit Food for Soul. Massimo combined the fight against food waste with feeding those in needs, with the help of a bunch of partners (including Lavazza and Grundig) and volunteers as well as local established charitable soup kitchens. After the italian city and Rio, the London…
Cheese… Italian cheese How could I resist an invite to the launch dinner for Italian Cheese Week? The event was held last week at Manitoba Tigella , a recently opened tigella restaurant in a slightly odd, liminal location between the British Museum and the destroyed Tottenham Court road crossing. I discovered tigella a couple of years ago during a weekend visit to Bologna; the are small discs of white bread, cut in half and traditionally filled with cheese and cold…
The perfect Italian pair Pastabites occasionally receives invitations to events, and often these events are really special: one such occasion was a lunch held in the beautiful, lush settings of Petersham Nurseries in Richmond, a place I’d always wanted to visit but never managed to. The fact that the lunch was sponsored by Parmigiano Reggiano and Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena and was going to be cooked not only by resident chef Damian Clisby but also by Michelin star italian…