The couple selling curry to the French
This summer we spent a week in the south of France. There, during the summer months many towns and communes stage marché nocturne, or night markets. These see a selection of local food producers and businesses set up around the edge of the town square, a band is booked, and locals come with their own...
wine and tarragon make it French
Ah the French, they have given the world of food so much. French cooking techniques run through the art of preparing food like the radiation from the Big Bang runs throughout the Universe – they are omni-present. However I would proffer that theirs is not so much a star in descendence, but that others cultures,...
Fabada-bing-fabada-boom!
spanish beans – 1 Originally uploaded by eyedropper.co.uk. We were in Bilbao a couple of weeks ago, and while there I picked up a conpango, which is a pack containing a morcilla (spanish black pudding) a chorizo and some pancetta. I didn’t know quite how to use it, hence being perplexed by the woman trying...
Budapest
My only pre-knowledge of Budapest came from a half remembered history lesson about the events of ’56 and a reference in the film Gross Point Blank, Dan Ackroyd’s character says, “ah, Budapest, city of Cathedrals”. Well it does have a great deal of ecclesiastical establishments to commend it, but it also has a great deal...