Wild Mushrooms: An autumn fungi foray
by Rebecca Davies I set off on a bright sunny afternoon and walked through the church yard towards the nearby woods. Amongst the graves I came across a beautiful tree covered in red fruit, like jewels...
View ArticleGreek Steak
Recipes from ’The Balkan Cookbook’ This dish always takes me back to Crete and a pebble beach restaurant lit by a string of multi-coloured bulbs—where the sound of faraway discos danced on folding...
View ArticleTurkish Coffee – Greek Coffee – Serbian Coffee – Bosnian Coffee
The Balkan Cookbook Balkan Coffee kahve — kar-vay (Turkish) kafa — ka-fa (Bosnian Serbian) karve — kar-vez (Greek) To make the coffees use an ibric, aka dzesze (jez-ma)—a saucepan will...
View ArticleAdriatic Roast Potatoes
The Balkan Cookbook Roast potatoes This method of roasting potatoes is found all along the Adriatic and is a perfect partner for all grilled and roasted meats. Pecene Krompira — petch-en-ee...
View ArticleA Serbian Breakfast
The Balkan Cookbook A Serbian Breakfast I discovered my first Serbian Breakfast at the national trumpet festival in Guca. The trumpet festival happens once a year in the village of Guca where for one...
View ArticleTomato Salad Straight from the Balkans
The Balkan Cookbook Tomato salad Straight from the Balkans OK this is for me a standard side order when I am traveling through the Balkans in the summer. It is the perfect accompaniment to grilled meat...
View ArticleSlavonian Beef
Recipes from ’The Balkan Cookbook’ Slavonian beef with lettuce salad My mum swears she invented this recipe, and after failing to find any beef dish in any Balkan restaurant with exactly the same...
View ArticleSerbian Chicken Risotto
The Balkan Cookbook Serbian Chicken Risotto I used to hate this as a kid. The smell of boiling chicken never worked for me and it wasn’t until I was in my teens that I really developed a liking for...
View ArticleThe Urban Forager: A Philosophy of Use
Foraging is a pursuit usually associated with the countryside. When we think of foragers, we think of adults and children standing under huge apple trees in the corner of deserted fields or next to...
View ArticleNiš Baklava
The Balkan Cookbook Niš Baklava As a child, I used to visit auntie ‘O’ on St Nicholas’s Day—Santa Claus is my uncle’s patron saint. On this day over a thousand years ago my uncle’s ancestor had given...
View ArticleA brief introduction to English wines.
I have over the last couple of weeks had my patriotism excited from its usual simmer, simmer in the broadest sense of the word, more of a single, occasional bubble in a sea of indifference, excited...
View ArticleThe little app that makes everyone a wine genius
I came across, recently, a new iPhone app from a Dutch company called WineStein. The app is really pretty impressive. It has a massive and ever increasing database of wine and the exact scientific food...
View ArticleThe more obscure regions of the world of wine
Alongside trying some of the offerings from the established regions of the wine world, imported and distributed by the powerhouses of the UK wine market, Bibendum, John E Fells and the like I had the...
View ArticleI don’t like Chardonnay, but I like Chablis
One sentence that is heard over and over in wine retail outlets, perpetually throughout the UK must be people suggesting that they don’t like Chardonnay, refuse to drink it, blame it for hangovers,...
View ArticleSoggy Tapas
A thin stream of rainwater followed the delicate arabesque of the Moorish fretwork before falling to the tiled floor where it bounced before being lost in the general deluge. Damp groups of soggy cold...
View ArticlePumpkin flavoured delights…
The oversees caffeine giant strikes again with an American twist on a festive tradition. Ahhh STARBUCKS™, you are sometimes so wonderful… For weeks now Americans have been bombarding the internet with...
View ArticleAmidst Art and Wilderness in Arizona
I stood at the top of Cathedral Rock, overlooking the clutter of red rocks in the distance. Below, cars trailed across the landscape on pieces of gray ribbon, looping intricately around dull desert...
View ArticleBelated response to “Ordering the vegetarian meal? There’s more animal blood...
Even though this article is now almost 5 years old, it’s still flying around on social media as some sort of defence to meat eating. That alone shows the weakness of the argument; if it was stronger,...
View ArticleBelated response to “Ordering the vegetarian meal? There’s more animal blood...
Even though this article is now almost 5 years old, it’s still flying around on social media as some sort of defence to meat eating. That alone shows the weakness of the argument; if it was stronger,...
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