Scottish hearts bled last week, and for anyone who felt inclined to sample the viscous body fluid, the taste was unsurprisingly sweet. But on this occasion it had nothing to do with Irn-Bru and Mars Bars, for at stake were some of Scotland’s other prides and joys. Scotland’s berries were under attack from those down south. Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket,…
In the Friends episode ‘The One Where Ross Got High’, as Monica hosts Thanksgiving Rachel is tasked with making dessert. With an English recipe book to hand, sticky pages confound her into combining a traditional English trifle with a shepherd’s pie. That means ascending layers of ladyfingers, jam, custard which she made from scratch, raspberry sauce, ladyfingers, beef sauteed with peas…
From Żelimucha to Białousy in northern Poland, to Čačak, Serbia, eastern Sicily, and parts of the Languedoc, after taking more than a year away from his popular cooking show to traverse Europe in search of the finest ingredients, despairing celebrity chef Gaston Ramirez has declared ‘Kill me now, my life is compote’. The traditional dessert, made of pieces of fruit stewed in…
