by Nicola | Aug 31, 2009
As early as the first century A.D., Western cartographers and geographers began to speculate that there must be a large continent in the southern hemisphere, to act as a counterbalance to the large known landmasses of the north. Beginning with Magellan, explorers... by Nicola | Aug 5, 2009
The unstoppable rise of the cupcake over the past five years has been analysed in terms of retro-food chic and nostalgia, the infantilisation of Western civilization, the triumph of appearance over substance, and even American political culture. After all, a cupcake... by Nicola | Aug 3, 2009
J. Crew’s La Boucherie boxer shorts illustrate French cuts of meat such as the poetically named faux-filet, tendron, and bavette d’aloyau, via Eat Me Daily. I first saw sot l’y laisse on a restaurant menu as a teenager, somewhere in south west... by Nicola | Aug 1, 2009
Photo by Jonathan Brown. Brown reviewed the launch on his blog, Around Britain with a Paunch, writing that he and his friends “mingled in the mist, like shadows on the set of Hamlet”. A former boutique storefront in London has become the temporary home for... by Nicola | Aug 1, 2009
The water selection at Claridge’s, curated by Renaud Grégoire, food and beverage director. The concept of terroir has its origins in French winemaking, as a means to describe the effect of geographic origin on taste. As a shorthand marker for both provenance and...