Every cuisine is built on a staple food – a starchy backdrop to the main event. It might be potatoes, rice, bread, or, if you’re from the north of Italy, polenta. Cheap, rib-sticking, and innately comforting, it is – as tradition dictates – the perfect starchy staple. Yet, ever since Elizabeth David introduced the UKContinue reading “Polenta: A History”
Category Archives: Stories From The Table
To the table: bread and butter pudding
Food memories – the good and the bad – are the most enduring. It’s not just the taste, but the things that accompany it: memories of the kitchen table in a childhood home or of the person standing by the stove; nostalgia for a smell, a sound, a place or a time. I quite often find myselfContinue reading “To the table: bread and butter pudding”
Kir and coffee
When a set menu is topped and tailed with kir and coffee, you should probably sit down and order it – even when you don’t like kir and you can’t drink coffee after 7pm. Especially when the waiter ushers you and a loved one to a small table on the edge of La Place deContinue reading “Kir and coffee”
To The Table 