It sort of surprises me, given how many dinners I’ve cooked in my life, that there are certain celebrations that I’m only just getting round to hosting at the age...
Have you ever done one of those quizzes that tells you which character in Friends you are? I’ve never actually tried it, but I don’t need to. I am Monica....
Last Saturday, I went to the New Food Fair on the Haarlemmerstraat – the sun was shining, I ate a lot of pork, it was all jolly nice. But this...
Back in the 80s, people used the word ‘trendy’ to describe things that were fashionable. Clothes, food, venues. Trendy is now about the un-trendiest word you could apply to anything,...
I get quite a few emails requesting me to try out someone’s new restaurant/cookery school/dining concept/food product/[insert random not-always-food-related service here]. For reasons of time and money management, not to...
When I was 17 my first nephew was born, which means that ever since I’ve been an adult there have always been kids around at Christmas. It also means that...
A while ago, a friend of mine asked me to write a post about the staples I keep in my store cupboard. The stuff which means that, when I look...
A few weeks ago, I blogged about a feature on Dutch street food for which I did an afternoon’s film shoot with the presenter. The feature was for GlobalMAG, a...
So I’ve just worked my way through raw herring (with onions, of course) from the stall on Spui, chips with mayo and satay sauce from Vleminckx, organic foccacia from the...
