I love cookbooks and have a fairly deep collection. Some I have cooked with extensively, some I have yet to cook from. I have read every one–cover to cover. Reading cookbooks is a sensory experience for me. I enjoy the feeling of the pages and the anticipation of what will appear next as one moves through the volume. I love to imagine the tastes within the recipe, to anticipate combining new foods and to consider the mouthfeel–whether soft and creamy or crunchy–of the first bite or to imagine the smell that will fill the house as the food cooks. It is a happy place for me. I bought a new cookbook today that promises to provide these sensory experiences, but also a bit more, a bit extra. Continue reading
Room to grow
I am quite interested in the idea of rooftop and vertical gardens. For me they epitomise invention and forward thinking while at the same time offer scope for the possibilities of the future of food and the opportunity to make value out of waste. Continue reading
A time of Lychee
Just about this time of the year, in Hong Kong one begins to anticipate the new crop of Lychee. The sweet, almost rose scented flavour of fresh lychee, for me, is a harbinger of summer–a time for slowing down a bit, for refreshing oneself in the sea, for drinking cocktails on the veranda of some gentrified colonial building or in a modern rooftop garden. Lychees can be made into drinks, eaten just as they are, or, as I liked to eat them, tossed into this salmon salad. Continue reading
Hong Kong: Markets walking tour from Central to Sheung Wan
Update: We tried this walking tour on our latest visit to Hong Kong. Some of the way finding landmarks are now no longer there, please be aware of this if you try to do the tour.
This walking tour starts at Central and travels west toward Sheung Wan. The tour takes in Fa Yuen Streets, Central Market, the Mid Level Escalator, Graham Street Market, Gough Street, Cat Street Market, Sheung Wan Market, Western Market and ends at the Sheung Wan MTR station.
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