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A Roma c’e’ una brutta abitudine di fare gli hamburger con un pezzo magrissimo della razza piemontese (sopratutto la carne degli allevatori “La Granda”) ignorando completamente che tale razza e la mancanza di grasso non e’ adatta affatto agli hamburger. Il risultato e’ (more…)

Chocolate-cherry heart-shaped cakes at Maltby Street.

I messed up. Big time. I was totally planning on going to Violet Cakes this morning to buy Claire Ptak’s delectable heart-shaped treats for this fine Valentine’s Day. I had spied chocolate-cherry heart-shaped cakes at Maltby Street on Saturday. Then at Broadway Market (more…)

Coffee geeks rejoice! Continuing his course of upward trajectory, Gwilym Davies has opened Prufrock Coffee on Leather Lane. Davies’ coffee sales have known several locales, first a roving cart, then a shiny trolley inside the storefront of Present in Shorditch, and now, (more…)

Nic Roome’s madeleines have become my latest edible obsession. As far as I can gather, he runs a small operation out of his house and is a recent convert to the world of artisan food production, having left a career at Burberry to pursue baking. I was first introduced to Roome’s madeleines by my friend Kitty Travers, my official London food guru, at Monmouth Coffee’s Bermondsey location. Since it is only open on Saturdays, I sort of panicked at the thought (more…)

Back by popular demand, Carson, my cousin’s seven-year-old-son, has written a guest post. This one is about the chocolate mousse I ate at Brawn on London’s Columbia Road on Friday night. (more…)