Paper Palate

The weekly fix of recommended restaurants in the Times heads to Spain for the top ten Tapas restaurants. They list Moro, up in Exmouth Market, which both Cooksister and the Passionate Cook were most disappointed with in a recent visit. Two establishments are listed outside of the capital – one in Brighton the other in […]

There is nothing like a fresh, fluffy, homemade baked good first thing in the morning to start your day off right. The melt in your mouth goodness of a delicious pastry is an amazing day starter with a cup of steaming hot coffee. And after baking the night away making white chocolate raspberry […]

Is Fresh turning into a bi-monthly publication? This issue is marked as September/October. Despite the huge popularity of cooking and the food revolution in the UK, none of the UK food magazines sell in huge quantities or make staggeringly huge profits either.
This issue opens with the usual In Season recipes – Rosemary Spiced Pears, […]

GourmetStation.com, a company that creates in-home dining experiences, is running a contest called “Get Out of the Dog House.” Submit a short, under two-minute video on how they got in and how they got out of “the dog house” with family, friends or associates by Oct. 7. The top three winners will receive a 12-, […]

September’s Bon Appetit promises you will “Cook Like a Chef” with “Secrets and Recipes from America’s Top Spots.” I was intrigued. Who doesn’t want to know special chef secrets? Not me!
Sometimes, though, cooking like a chef doesn’t make sense. Chefs have huge industrial kitchens, supersize appliances, yards of counterspace, and […]

According to the now very famous book, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure, the trick to keeping that girlish figure is to enjoy sensible pleasures. Meaning, if you’re going to indulge in that decadent cheesecake at lunch then have a salad for dinner or take the stairs instead of […]

If you have ever been to the Stinking Rose restaurant and loved it, I have the cookbook for you: The Stinking Rose Restaurant Cookbook, which was published in May, 2006. I was in San Francisco this weekend and, when asked where we should go to dinner, I hesitantly asked, “Do you guys like […]

I really can’t think of anything worse (well I can, but it ain’t for polite company) going to a restaurant by myself! I mean, not only looking like Mr. No Mates to all and sundry, but isn’t one of the joys of eating out enjoying the occasion with friends? The Times thinks differently with a […]

With gorgeous weather still here, there’s a bit of time left to take advantage of outdoor entertaining, and the folks at Williams-Sonoma want to help us take advantage of it. Their newest tome, appropriately titled Outdoor Entertaining, found its way into my shopping cart at Costco the other day.
Over 140 pages of […]

The gloves are off. The UK’s supermarkets have embarked on a game of one up-man-ship in the ‘green’ stakes. I guess in this enlightened age the stakes are high.
Tesco offers extra club card points for not using their carrier bags, Asda is using trains to reduce the road miles and thus the pollution and Sainsbury’s […]