No one has to sign up for a BurgerMonday meatup to have a burger at any of its host restaurants. That’s why at every BurgerMonday I offer an event sweetener or two not available to the general public.  For the two sold-out sittings of El Doble Night, a celebration of the double cheeseburger at Byron [...]

The next youngandfoodish Steak Frites Tasting Dinner will be Tuesday 25 May in the private dining room of Racine Restaurant in London. The menu will again feature three steak classics – onglet aux échalottes, filet au poivre, côte de boeuf – prepared by chef Henry Harris with the finest cuts of dry-aged, grass-fed beef selected by Darragh O’Shea of the [...]

You don’t have to be a pizza obsessive to attend a PizzaTuesday but you do risk becoming one if you do. With this series, youngandfoodish.com elevates the pizza experience via informal tastings, demos and discussions at London’s most distinctive pizzerias. There is, however, an ulterior motive: by assembling groups of passionate eaters, no one is [...]

In parts 7 and 8, the concluding videos of linguine alle vongole – the finer points of a perfect pasta, Francesco Mazzei suggests parsing the parsley, adding it only at the last moment, but warns against topping this pasta – as well as other seafood dishes – with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. A notable exception to the [...]

In part 6 of linguine alle vongole – the finer points of a perfect pasta, Francesco Mazzei prepares a creamy emulsion by tossing the linguine with its starchy cooking water and the clam sauce.

In part 5 of linguine alle vongole – the finer points of a perfect pasta, Francesco Mazzei of London’s L’Anima says you should open the white wine BEFORE you open the clams. But should you pour 1 glass of wine into the pan and another, more slowly, into your mouth as you cook the vongole? [...]

In part 4 of linguine alle vongole – the finer points of a perfect pasta, Francesco Mazzei stresses the importance of cooking with an understated extra virgin olive oil that won’t overpower the vongole.

In part 3 of linguine alle vongole – the finer points of a perfect pasta, Francesco Mazzei explains why he and his vongole sauce cling to a bronze-cut pasta that’s been pushed through a bronze die.