I’ve wanted to meet Jo Hampson ever since I tasted a slice of her smoked chicken. It was so delicious that it has been logged as one of my ‘food memories’, vivid and clear enough so that I can still taste the smoky, unnervingly tender chicken in my mouth. Where did this chicken come from?…
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The Pasta Queen’s Oxtail Ragu and Maloreddus
This recipe comes from my dear cousin-in-law, better known to the outside world as the charming, hard-working and endlessly talented ‘Rosie MacKean, Pasta Queen’. Rosie chose oxtail because its cheap, versatile and packed full of flavour. Ragu is the perfect meal to feed a crowd, and is a staple Christmas dish in the MacKean household.
Mrs Nugent’s Green Tomato Chow
There’s a glut of green tomatoes from the organic farm I have just started working on. My mind turned to the wonderful Mrs Nugent (A.K.A Yvonne) in Nova Scotia and her Green Tomato Chow that Cass and I had whilst we stayed with her this summer. I’ve tried recreating it following her recipe, which she…
Leonard’s ‘Pate Chinois’, a Quebecois classic
Pate Chinois, or ‘Chinese pie’ is a classic French-Canadian dish, allegedly invented by the Chinese migrants when they came to build the railway in 1867. At the time, maize, potatoes and beef was all they could get their hands on. The dish was soon adopted by busy mother’s in rural Quebec who liked the dish…
Inside the world’s largest community kitchen
The langur (community kitchen) at the Golden Temple serves 50,000 free meals a day to everyone, regardless of religion or class. More than 5,000 happy volunteers work round the clock, cooking up a full meal of tea, rice, vegetable, daal, chapati and kheer (pudding). A whopping 18 quantals (=18,000 kg) of daal and 50 quantals…
How to make Poha, from the king of breakfasts
Hasmukh was the king of breakfasts. It was his responsibility to make them at Sapna Ranch and each morning there would be something different – bhelpuri (a type of chaat, made with puffed rice and tangy tamarind sauce), poha jada (thin beaten rice), poha patla (thick beaten rice), upma (savoury porridge made using semolina and…
People I Meet and Food They Eat 