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I roam, grow my own, brave the kitchen heat and know my woozy way around a wine list. Welcome to my (very personal) world of food and drink…

After years of journalistic hyper-activity, lockdowns made me reassess the food and drink I really care about. Refreshed and unrestrained, I started this. Call it a blog if you must, it’s certainly a change of direction. Less about me, more the discoveries I want to share. Read more…

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You say macaroni, I say Squacquerone. Ciao to one of Italy’s best kept secrets

One of the delights of our recent trip to Bologna was emerging from our apartment one Sunday morning in search of coffee to find a buzzing organic market on our doorstep. Just 12 hours earlier the Piazza Aldrovandi  had been swarming with…
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Red-hot Impala lives up to the hype with a dream duck and molokhia’s ancient magic

En route to Impala through London’s Chinatown you run the gauntlet of lacquered roast ducks garnishing restaurant windows. From the humblest establishments to the Four Seasons, which trumpets its version as the world’s best. Switch from…
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Danielle and Sofie to reopen OSMA and introduce Boutikk in Manchester’s Northern Quarter

OSMA restaurant has been much missed. Now it is returning – to the Northern Quarter
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A decade of daiquiris downed! Happy big birthday, Manchester Rum Festival

Manchester Rum Festival is celebrating 10 years of merriment
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Hokkaidō comes to Didsbury – meeting the creative couple behind Midori at Wine and Wallop

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