Food and Drink
Almost 90 per cent of fruit & veg given to schoolchildren contain toxic pesticides
There has been concern over a number of years over the amount of pesticides and other toxins used in our fruit and veg production. Now an official investigation has found that 84 per cent of fruit and veg given out to school kids have tested positive for toxic chemicals. The tests found traces of pesticide in apples, bananas, carrots, pears, satsumas, tomatoes and raisins destined for four to six-year-olds. Two million kids get free fruit every year as part of...
Would you eat these fried chicken doughnuts?
Ma’ Plucker of Soho's Beak Street has combined fried chicken with doughnuts to create new "Dirty Doughnuts". The eatery has created three dirty doughnuts including fried chicken with peanut butter, streaky bacon served on a jam filled doughnut, fried Chicken with jalapeño jelly served on a honey glazed mini doughnut and pulled BBQ Chicken with apricot jelly served on a smoked paprika mini doughnut. The doughnuts are served exclusively as part of Ma’s Dirty Birds & Doughnuts Afternoon Tea alongside a...
Would you eat the bizarre diet of Victorian Cambridge University scholars?
Bizarre and stodgy diet of Victorian Cambridge university scholars has just been discovered. The bizarre and shocking eating habits of Victorian scholars have been revealed in documents found in a university archive. Students at Cambridge's Girton College survived on a relentless round of stodge, meat and more stodge, according to work records recently discovered. One of the dinning halls. The bizarre and shocking eating habits of Victorian scholars have been revealed in documents found in a university archive. The academics...
Spirit of the Week: Havana Club Rum Tributo 2016
Rum is finally getting the moment in the sunshine it deserves. Once the reserve of popular (read: mostly terrible) cocktails such as Mojitos and Daiquiris, the spirit’s premium, sipping expressions are finally beginning to receive some apposite recognition across the globe. The first in a new limited-edition run of ultra-premium expressions, Havana Club Tributo 2016 pays homage to the know-how of Cuban rum masters, as a tribute to the best rum that Cuba has to offer. Joining The Iconica Collection,...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe: Negroni Inglese from 45 Jermyn St.
Forget monotonous mojitos, Club Tropicana Mai Tais or mawkish, emetic ‘coolers’ - the humble Negroni is the ultimate summer cocktail. A perfect balance of bitter, herbal and underlying sweet flavours, the Italian icon makes for an ideal aperitif; refreshing thanks to its succinct bitter notes. Since its initial creation, allegedly in Florence during 1919, the drink has seen various reiterations. Some of the most popular include the ‘Sbagliato’, made with Prosecco instead of classic gin, or the ‘Boulevardier’, which traditionally...
London’s best new restaurant openings – September 2017
With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. Hoppers St. Christopher’s Place – Marylebone Following the resounding success of the Soho original, a new, larger Hoppers will launch this month. Opening in Marylebone, Hoppers St. Christopher’s Place will have space for 85, set across two floors, with a further outdoor space for 16. What’s more, the new restaurant is set to take bookings,...
Woman loses six stone and ‘looks ten years younger’ thanks to extreme diet 95 per cent fruit based
A legal secretary lost almost six stone and claims she looks a decade younger thanks to a diet which sees her eat 95 per cent FRUIT. Fresh-faced Rebecca Rosenberg also says she has banished her lifelong acne problem and cured herself of MS since becoming a fruitarian. The 33-year-old munches on ten peaches, oranges or apples, a family-size bag of grapes or an entire watermelon in a single sitting. She guzzles 1.5 gallon smoothies, devours ginormous salads and gets through...
Restaurant Review: The Greek Larder
Amorously known as ‘ladies’ finger’, you may be forgiven for believing that okra’s pet namesake is derived from a squalid woman who’d been rummaging around in the dirt of the vegetable patch - on discovering okra - in desperate search of something less assiduously unpleasant. I, for one, loathe okra. It’s less a matter of taste (which is has very little) but of emetic texture. When I recently voiced such angst on Twitter, the responses that followed were surprisingly less...
How To Breakfast Like A French Socialite
French socialites like Elsie de Wolf, Marie Antoinette and Geneviève Lantelme certainly knew a thing or two about throwing timeless, sophisticated Parisian soirées. Our French neighbours embrace food as a way of life, spending hours enjoying gastronomic delights with good company and even better wine. From delectable morning mainstays to the importance of embracing flavours, here's Côte Brasserie’s tips on how to enjoy the most important meal of the day and breakfast like a French socialite. Bon appétit. Eat Fresh...