A man of appetites: Stop messy about
This week Lou looked at simple summer puds, while I went back to school in search of Eton Mess. The beauty of Eton Mess today is that it's three simple ingredients that have formed a brief 'menage a trois'; meringue provides structure, fruit brings sweetness and cream offers its cooling milky flavour – all in...
Me on BBC Radio Newcastle
Today I appeared on Simon Logan's show on BBC Radio Newcastle. They cut the interview into three chunks, starter, main course and dessert after the news. You can listen to the whole 11 mins below. Andrew Webb on BBC Radio Newcastle 11mins If you've not got time for that then why not just listen to...
Waitrose Kitchen Magazine: Fields of Gold
If you wanted an old Italian mama (or nona) straight out of 'central casting' to photograph making pasta by hand, you could not get better than 80 year old Vincenza Vicenti who learned the skill at her mother's side from the age of 10. To watch her work was a joy, she simply mixed flour and...
Video promo for Food Britannia
Here's a short promo for Food Britannia giving you just a taste of what the book's about, to see more of me on film visit the Showreel page
Yorkshire Old Wives’ Sod
The brilliantly named Yorkshire old wives’ sod is the sort of pudding one imagines Nora Batty feeding her hen-pecked husband Wally in Last of the Summer Wine. A curmudgeonly sounding pudding that must surely be a candidate for the best-named dish invented on these isles? The name, as far as I can tell, comes from...
A man of appetites: scone or scone?
This week I get to grips with the big issues, namely is it 'scone' or 'scone' – confused? You're not out of the woods yet. Picture the scene; freshly baked scones, fruity jam, clotted cream, butter, a pot of strong tea, milk and sugar, all laid on an outdoor table and bathed in warm dappled...
A man of appetites: Apple Crumble
After last week’s Sunday Roast, Louisa and I thought we’d follow with something sweet, and what better than apple crumble. Few things in life are as pleasurable or as quintessentially British as sitting down with family and friends to a proper homemade apple crumble. It’s a simple tasty pudding that’s easy to make and is...
The best bits of the food map
My showreel is taken from some of the 50+ web videos I made as part of the Big British Food Map for Channel 4. Here's the Youtube link to it.
Damson jam, damn good
Big Bertha, my biggest pan, nearly comes a cropper with the bumper crop of damsons from my inlaw’s damson tree this year. Molton hot jam, a baby crawling around the kitchen, what can possibly go wrong? It was like the start of Casualty before the ‘accident’ happens. 5 kg of fruit and 4kgs of sugar...
Food Britannia: Off cuts and left overs
My tome, over a year in the making, is nearly finished, you can pre-order a copy here (out Spring 2011) Anyway, like self build furniture there’s always bits and bobs left over when writing a book. So some of them I’ve scrapped together here for your hopeful enjoyment. When things go wrong I’ve had to...
The British Pie Awards…
…and the mysterious dissappearace of Elisabeth Luard. It is to Mrs Luard that I owe the slight queazy feeling in my stomach this evening. I was invited to be a judge at the second British Pie Awards sponsored by Colmans held in St Mary’s Church, Melton Mowbray. Upon arriving I was duly assigned to judge class 12, Football...
The Sportsman Birthday Lunch
The plaudits for The Sportsman in Seasalter near Whitstable, are legion. In a nutshell it’s a pub doing simply brilliant food. Many a diner has booked a day return to Whitstable, or trundled down the A2 to enjoy it’s hospitality. And so if you’re interested in good British food, you’d be remiss not to pay...
