With the London launch of its Taste of Greece promotion The Greek National Tourism Organisation made it clear Tuesday 9 February 2010 was no day to be in Athens. A European capital already confronting a financial crisis was without two culinary giants who, ignoring unmistakable discrepancies in waistlines and hairlines, might be deemed the Heston Blumenthal and Pierre Hermé of modern Greek cuisine. Christoforos Peskias and Stelios Parliaros were at The Cookbook Cafe, doing cooking demos and helping to sell Greece, by which I mean they were promoting their country’s assets, not liquidating them. [Read more...]
Changing the perception but not the taste of Greek food
12 February 2010 By 3 Comments
Knightsbridge woman walks out on pork belly sandwich
Picture a one-armed South Bank street performer juggling pumpkins while being sprayed from the Thames by a naked Duke of Edinburgh skidding by on a jet ski and you can begin to appreciate my astonishment upon seeing an elegant Knightsbridge woman walk out of O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge butcher shop without one of its incomparable pork belly sandwiches in her possession. “Is that the queue?” she whined towards the single line of 5 or 6 punters ogling the platter of fat-glistening pork belly. She was outta there within seconds, sans un sandwich au poitrine du porc. [Read more...]
27 October 2009 By 2 Comments
