Monthly Archives: May, 2009
Credit Lunch
Expense skull-duggery is the new swine flu (remember that?) I did see 2 Japanese girls wandering round Borough Market wearing face masks on Friday. Although this could perhaps be explained by Asian bird flu. Or SARS. Or Ebola. Or child obesity. Or foot and mouth. Or global warming in the form of flash flooding. Or drought. Or amphibian [...]
My Last Supper
I recently had 40 minutes to kill at Fulham Broadway tube station. In hindsight, I should have popped next door and slapped Didier Drogba. Instead I visited ‘Borders Books’ and bought a book called ‘My Last Supper’. I sat down in a quaint little coffee shop and had something called a Frappucino which might or might not [...]
Feeding time
A chef’s greatest asset is their insecurity, their need to please. A good chef is generous, giving- of time and ingredients. I try my best to only ever send out plates of food that would make me feel happy, should I be the recipient. Most importantly I want people that I cook for to like [...]
What the Sistine Chapel smells like.
There is a film quote that has stuck with me for years. It is thought provoking and brilliant and somewhat implausibly flows from the pens of Ben Affleck and Jason Bourne.
‘Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I’ll bet you [...]
Borough Market
The smell of Dominican coffee makes me feel like smoking. I won’t though, because I dont have any cigarettes and am not buying a whole packet just to satisfy a pavlovian urge, that if fulfilled would only make me feel slightly sick and would negate the taste of the Dominican coffee. I would also lose [...]