Ham Croquettes [Croquetas de Jamón]

Ham Croquettes [Croquetas de Jamón]

It has been my good fortune to have been invited to so many wine producing regions across the globe, with the opportunity to sample not only the wines at source, but also the accompanying indigenous cuisine. Wine producers take great care in presenting traditional...
Asparagus Tart

Asparagus Tart

“Nature ordained that asparagus should grow wild, so that everyone may go and pick it, yet now we see cultivated asparagus!” Pliny the Elder Heaven forbid, although I am unsure as to whether he was merely surprised by such commercial modernity or thoroughly outraged...
Coq au Vin

Coq au Vin

“I’m having fruit salad for dinner. Well it’s mostly grapes actually. OK, it’s all grapes. Fermented grapes. I’m having wine for dinner” – Julia Child. Julia Child, seminal American cook and author said “Wine is part of the food chain, it makes meals more pleasant”...
Asparagus

Asparagus

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses” Abraham Lincoln Just for a moment, as May Day beckons, I steal my gaze from the airborne grace of our incoming house martins, swallows and turtle doves to a more...
Stock with Fergus

Stock with Fergus

If you want British food at its finest, or should I say British country food at its finest, then you should head straight to St. John Restaurant near London’s Smithfield Market. If Gavroche has provided London with its finest French cooking and River Café its Italian,...