TAG | Food

Aug/10

13

Anyone for Gourmet Goat

BRITISH shoppers will be able to buy gourmet goat meat after it hits the shelves at a luxury food hall next month. Harrods is launching the unusual cut for the first time after seeing growing demand for goat. The meat already features on the menu at upmarket UK restaurants including the two Michelin star Pied [...]

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The average length of time to plan a girly night out – four days, six hours and 43mins Aug 5 2010 Lachlan Mackinnon THE typical girlie night out takes an incredible four days, six hours and 43 minutes to organise, a study found yesterday. Female party-goers will also swap 14 texts, two Facebook postings, four [...]

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Jul/10

15

Salmon and Colcannon Fishcakes

Makes 8-10 500g raw salmon (boneless and skinless) 500g potatoes 125g Savoy cabbage ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon pepper 15g white wine 1 egg (beaten) for coating Dried white bread for crumbing Peel and chop the potatoes into even-sized chunks and bring them to boil until tender. Shred the Savoy cabbage thinly and boil for [...]

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Jul/10

14

lasagne sandwich?

The focus on healthy eating has never been greater, but the launch of a lunchtime lasagne sandwich – described as a “solid snack between meals” – has divided the eating public. Supermarket chain Tesco, which will stock the sandwich, says it is made up of “two thick slices of bread and a filling of diced [...]

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Apr/10

16

Not the way to treat your guests

A furious diner was refused a glass of tap water at a restaurant just days after a new law made it an offence for licensed restaurants not to provide water free of charge.

Sonya Adams asked for a glass of water while dining at Vermilion Cinnabar in Manchester, where she and five friends had just dined.

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Apr/10

16

Wonderfull wines

Marchese Lodovico Antinori is at it again. After knocking our socks off with his so-called “Super Tuscans”, Ornellaia and Masseto – Italy’s most prized and expensive wines – he’s now repeating the feat with his new project, Tenuta di Biserno, this time in cahoots with his brother, Piero. As with everything in Italy, it’s a [...]

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Mar/10

7

Ravi Shankar opposes GM food in India

“The penalty for creating awareness (misleading the public) about the ill effects of Genetically Modified issues may lead to an imprisonment of minimum six months and upto one year with a maximum fine of Rs.2 lakhs,” he said. “The clauses of this bill are draconian and more stringent than even the repealed acts like POTA, TADA.”

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Estonia’s top hotel The Three Sisters Earns a Michelin star

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Scottish cuisine is not all deep fried mars bars and donner kebabs, however the serious lack of  top quality restaurants in Glasgow is now very apparent as not a single star has been handed out to any Glasgow establishments. This  means that Glasgow is the ONLY major city in the UK not to have a [...]

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Jan/10

8

New York Hotel chin chin buffet breakfast

This morning I woke feeling as if I could eat a small country, so as I have been staying in the New York New York hotel the first place I hit this morning was the chin chin buffet, this slam buffet area, usually serving Chinese fayre had a full breakfast offering on from 7am till [...]

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