On a night in the last week of March this year, I had a bizarre dream. No grand political visions but rather, a blissful nightmare of sorts about eating at a fine dining restaurant with my mother and vanquishing demons in between courses. Make of it what you will. In the morning, I posted a…
Musings
How mass migration shaped Sichuan cuisine
I wrote this a while ago for a possible project. It’s some 1,700 words – a rather long read but you may be surprised. If you were asked to describe Sichuan cuisine, what would you say? Searingly spicy? Tongue numbing? Intense with pungent aromatics? Delicious and addictive? For most people, their last Sichuanese meal inevitably…
15 Mile Menu at The Kings Arms, Christchurch
A little while ago there were numerous stories in the property section about the UK’s most expensive beach shacks. On the market for hundreds of thousands of pounds and looking little more than glorified sheds, they caused quite a sensation. The reason why I’m talking about this on food pages is because across the strait…
Island eating in Grenada: the restaurants
(This is the second part of the Island eating in Grenada post. The first was on the island’s raw ingredients.) Being in Grenada for the Grenada Chocolate Festival meant that there were a lot of chocolate related meals but I also had an opportunity to explore some of the local fare. Rhodes Restaurant at Calabash…
Island eating in Grenada: the raw ingredients
In the UK, Caribbean food pretty much consists of plantains, jerk chicken, rice and peas and curried goat. That is, if you manage to track down a Caribbean restaurant. Out on the islands however, every nation has its own culinary identity. I went to Grenada, nicknamed Greens amongst the Caribbean islands, for the Grenada Chocolate…
A world of chocolate in Grenada
I travelled to the island of Grenada recently for the second Grenada Chocolate Festival. It’s not the first time I’ve been to the Caribbean, or to a chocolate plantation, but Grenada had something different to offer – Grenada was the first cocoa producing country to do the whole cocoa bean to chocolate bar process. (You can…