RecipeMama In a tiny kitchen in our flat my mother and I have just lost a small pancake, or a pikelet. My mother was turning over the pikelets in the frying pan when this little fellow slipped off a s...
Vision surges in front of you. You must seize this vision with the brush, because it can disappear suddenly, as the hare when the hunter approaches. Su Dongpo (Su Shi), a Chinese poet. The popularity...
Do you remember this passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, chapter IX ‘Queen Alice’? Sir John Tenniel, A Leg of Mutton At last the Red Queen began. “You’v...
More and more people are visiting Manchester these days, and admittedly there are more and more reasons to do so. FutureEverything (festival-formerly-known-as-Futuresonic), Manchester International Fe...
Gammon in Orange, Ginger, and Honey, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Now, this post is all about the art of cuisine. In the end, nations like the French or Italians, renowned for their art...