A couple of weeks ago, I bought a book, a massive seven hundred and sixty-seven page hulk of a book about Nordic food, perhaps unimaginatively entitled The Nordic Cookbook. My short review is tha...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2019/04/scandinavian-cinnamon-and-cardamom-buns/
A couple of years ago, I bought a pizza oven, a proper one, one that took four people to lift into place. I burn kiln-dried logs in it, and it hits almost 500c. It cooks a pizza in about two minu...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2018/12/etxebarri-by-juan-pablo-cardenal-jon-sarabia/
Portugal is very small, a slim slither of a country clinging on to the side of the Iberian Peninsula, battered along its western coast by the most magnificent of Atlantic breakers, its interior p...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2018/07/the-taste-of-portugal-edite-vieira/
I think I eat too much meat. I’ve been trying to cut down recently, have a couple of days a week without any meat, and to eat more fish and seafood instead of just, well, red meat, that sort of...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/07/naturally-nourished-by-sarah-britton/
One of my favourite cook books from last year was Sumayya Usmani’s brilliant Summers Under the Tamarind Tree, an intoxicating collection of Pakistani food. I’ve cooked from it ever since, and...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/06/mountain-berries-and-desert-spice-by-sumayya-usmani/
A few years’ ago, there was a public health campaign warning of the dangers of heart disease. It featured a middle-aged everyman who’d let himself go, a couch potato who drank too much. At on...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/05/saffron-soul-by-mira-manek-2/
There are a lot of broadly Middle Eastern cookery books around at the moment. In the last few months, I’ve cooked from Ottolenghi’s peerless Jerusalem, and Levant by Anissa Helou, and now Jou...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2016/10/palestine-on-a-plate-by-joudie-kalla/
Hipster hamster food? Not exactly. Maybe. OK, yes. No. That’s not fair. This is a book about the Holy Trinity of preserving, namely fermenting, pickling and drying. Three related but very, very...
I often struggle with lunch. Sometimes, there are too many meetings and it just slips by unnoticed, and other times, I fail to prepare and end up grabbing another mediocre sandwich here or there....
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2016/08/savage-salads-by-davide-del-gatto-kristina-gustafsson/
A few months ago, we were in town, and had lunch at the superb Trinity Kitchen. For those unfamiliar with the mighty city of Leeds, Trinity Kitchen is the food court attached to its big, shiny ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2016/07/korean-food-made-simple-by-judy-joo/