Entries tagged with 'England'
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[Photographs: Carey Jones] All right, London. You've already got Borough Market, the envy of food lovers across the planet. Need you really add another? Held in the Covent Garden piazza every week, the Real Food Market brings together all sorts of vendors, including many Borough Market favorites, such as Neal's Yard Dairy, the Flour Station, and Shellseekers. After a special four-day showing during London Restaurant Festival, the market will convene every Thursday through November 5, and every Thursday and Friday, until Christmas, after that. Click through for our slideshow of the highlights. Carey is over in London thanks to Visit London, the city's official tourist organization, in connection with Virgin Atlantic and the Intercontinental Park Lane....
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[Daily Mail] If you've been losing sleep over the soggification of biscuits after dunking them into hot beverages, you're in luck. Felice Tocchini of the Fusion Brasserie restaurant in Worcester, England, claims he's created a state-of-the-art biscuit able to survive up to one minute in a hot drink before disintegrating into mushy bits. According to Daily Mail, the current record is 25.5 seconds for a chocolate digestive. Tocchini spent three weeks testing ingredients. Key factors included the layering of flour and oat-based doughs to build strength, adding sweet potato slivers to hold everything together, and coating the biscuits with an egg-based glaze before baking. According to Dr. Len Fisher, who wrote How to Dunk a Doughnut, dunking releases up...
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This past Saturday the 39th Annual World Pea Shooting Championship was held in Witcham, England. Competitors had to hit a target made of putty from 12 yards away. The Telegraph reports on the latest in pea-shooter technology (a laser-guided shooter with gyroscopic balancing) and the characteristics of successful pea-shooting (such as "moisture criteria," the optimum amount of saliva on the pea). The winner, Jim Collins, used a traditional peashooter....
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"Is my ramen some third grader who's no good at dodgeball and gets picked last for the team?" The now defunct Chili Mushroom Ramen. Do you have that one thing, that favorite thing, on that one menu that you always order? You go back to that same restaurant for that same dish, year in and year out. But would you go back if that dish was brutally, surreptitiously stricken from the menu one dark night when no one is around to save it? This is the story of how I was separated, cruelly, from my Chili Mushroom Ramen: #28 at Wagamama. Wagamama is a ubiquitous British noodle house chain, at which customers seat themselves up and down clean communal tables...
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Photograph from cheese-rolling.co.uk I'm not the most outdoorsy person, but this is a competition I can get behind. Every year on Cooper's Hill in Gloucester, England, a cheese-rolling race is held. No, it isn't a race between different rounds of cheese—it is something much better: One round of cheese is rolled down the hill and participants chase after it. Last year our cheese correspondent Jamie Forest wrote about 2008's winner and the cheese used in the race. You can see photos from this year's race, which took place on May 25, in today's post at The Big Picture from The Boston Globe. The tradition has been going for for at least 200 years and is always growing in popularity....
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Looks like Jamie Oliver's dinner for the 30 world leaders at the G20 summit went over well. Oliver cooked the meal along with his students from Fifteen. On his blog he says: I was well chuffed with the food and we worked out that if you were to serve the whole three courses at home then it would come in at around £11 a head. I felt that it was really important to write a menu that was not indulgent. The food was homely and proved that you can serve very humble food in the most opulent of places. I wanted to prove that you really don’t have to spend loads of money to serve a very special meal....
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Photograph by smoothdude on Flickr There is something beautiful about this English breakfast, photographed by Daniel Krieger in Maidenhead yesterday morning. I feel tubby just looking at it. While the spread of yolk-popping eggs, fried bread, sausage, beans, chips, and a tomato can seem like a mess of things—plus the toast squeezes in there, "wait for me!"—it looks so clean and methodic. Krieger says it's one of the better English breakfasts he's had, but get this. One of his favorites is at Chip Shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which he believes actually rivals this one. Related Man Gets English Breakfast Tattooed On Skull Snapshots from the UK: The English Foodstuff Lexicon In Defence of British Food...
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All That Klausner From the blog of comedy writer Julie Klausner: Easter is tantalizingly around the corner, quoth the candy aisles of Duane Reade (which has Whoppers Robin's Eggs) and Walgreen's (which has Milk Chocolate Praying Hands). But according to my friend Jocelyn, who has BEEN TO ENGLAND, our candy may as well be pushpins and gravel. Because across the pond, come Easter, the Brits are doing what they do all year round: making us Americans look like potato salad-shucking morons. Behold, the CADBURY CREME EGG McFLURRY. Of course, there's nothing stopping you from making your own Cadbury Creme Egg shake at home. [via Buzzfeed]...
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The Brits are known for some wacky potato chips flavors—think Prawn Cocktail and Roast Chicken. When I first moved to England I committed myself to tasting them all, the only flavor I absolutely fell in love with being Sweet Chilli, as in Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. Now, powerhouse British "crisp" producers Walkers is asking the nation to vote for the next big flavor in its "Do Us a Flavour" competition that lasts until May 1. Being a Serious Eater has certain risks, and in the line of duty, I bit the dust—crazy-flavored dust that coated each and every chip. Eaters from around Britain sent in flavor ideas, and you'll never believe the finalists: exotic Crispy Duck & Hoisin, everyday...
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For years I've taken a (very) small measure of Kansas pride in the fact that my home state is host to one half of the International Pancake Day Race. Each year on Shrove Tuesday, residents of Liberal, Kansas, race their counterparts in Olney, England, all with pancake pans—and pancakes—in hand. Having never attended a race, I was under the impression that runners had to flip their pancakes throughout the event. Wrong. They flip once at the beginning and once at the end—to prove they still have their pancake payload. [The incriminating video, after the jump.]...
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