Booking in sought-after restaurants may become even harder than it is today if the trend to decrease the number of sittings in restaurants catches up. In the UK, we heard last month about Mikael Jonsson of restaurant Hedone announcing he would be opening for just six sittings every week. Earlier, Sat Bains, chef of two Michelin star Restaurant Sat Bains announced that his … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
Thousands pledge support to #SaveRummo after flooding that nearly destroyed pasta maker
A storm hit the area of Benevento, Italy, a few days ago causing floods that have caused havoc in the factory of one of the region's main pasta producers, the Pastificio Rummo. People on social media, first in Italy and then internationally responded instantly by promising to help the troubled pasta maker. A young internet user Luciano Lobosco created a #SaveRummo event on … [Read more...]
Is there such a thing as the best cookbook? 1000 Cookbooks has the answer
Which is the best cookbook ever published? Is there such a thing as the best cookbook? What are the favourite cookbooks of chefs? Or bloggers? Or authors who've written cookbooks or books about food? That is the question that a new project by Jon Croft, a food book publisher at Absolute Press and Matthew Cockerill, co-founder of Open Access Publisher, BioMed Central, try to … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #53
Novak Djokovic is a high tennis performer. His 10 grand slam career wins put him equal seventh in the all-time list but he is unlikely to stop here given he is at his peak at the age of 28. He clearly has the two contemporary players Rafael Nadal (14) and record-holder Roger Federer (17) in sight. But why are we mentioning this on a weekly round-up related to food and wine? In … [Read more...]
10 things we learnt from Peter Goossens (Hof van Cleve)
Belgian chef Peter Goossens is probably one of Belgium's most internationally known chefs. He has been in the World's 50 Best Restaurants list for many years and is one of only three Belgian chefs to have three Michelin stars. Just before summer we spent time with this high-performing chef. We have already published the interview but here are the 10 lessons we learnt from that … [Read more...]
