by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Featured
Jonathan Safron Foer Eating Animals Little Brown, 2009 341 Pages £18.99 ISBN 978-0241144251 When Jonathan Safran Foer’s grandmother cooked chicken, he and his brothers would regularly interrupt the meal to say, “You are the greatest chef who ever lived”. Never mind...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Short, fat and pearly white. O – to be a grain of risotto rice in the prime of life. At least, that’s what I thought. Standing in a market in Edinburgh the other night I found myself looking at two boxes of rice: an Arborio next to a box labeled simply “risotto rice.”...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
At the James Beard Awards on Sunday — the Oscars of food — fat was elevated. And not just as each guest lifted Debbie Gold’s cured bone marrow on mustard croutons with parsley and ramp to their lips, either. The recipient of this years cookbook of the year award went...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
This recipe is designed to make your life easier. It’s for risotto. No, really – don’t walk away. Risotto is a comfort food. Nigel Slater referred to it as “the most gently restoring of all suppers.” For a dish that’s high in carbohydrates, flavor, warmth and,...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Restaurant: Jamal’s 107-108 Walton Street Telephone: 01865 554905 http://www.jamals.co.uk In leaving the restaurant last night, I squeezed past a pirate and a sea wench, danced with a fairy and held my friend steady as he lost his dinner to the trash bin on the...
