Edible London

Children in restaurants are a controversial topic . In my bit of East London, they are pretty much everywhere -- I even spotted a sleeping ...

When it comes to cooking at home, I am not much of a traditionalist and I am a big fan of short cuts and time-savers. A real, pedigree grat...

Many moons ago, I was a young graduate working near Chancery Lane. The smoky old-man boozer where we used to go on Friday nights is now an ...

Forget sliced bread. The best food invention ever was ready-made pastry. With its arrival, any random fridge/cupboard ingredients can be tu...

In the three years we were away from London much has changed (like the arrival of Boris bikes and hundreds of new cyclists on the roads) and...

My bookshelf is lined with a dozen or more cookbooks, resplendent with artful photos and names of acclaimed chefs. I love to browse through ...

To me, they are a completely alien species. They don't appear to have the live alarm clocks in the shape of kids, nor do they seem to h...