One of the benefits of returning to the UK is that I have been able to catch up on my UK Cookery programmes and get introduced to some new chefs. It’s amazing how quickly someone new can arrive on the scene. My new favorites are the “Fabulous Baker Brothers”- Henry and Tom Herbert. They have a show on Channel…
Desparately Seeking Hot Dog – “preferably of the cheap and nasty variety”
I should have known better, and I did know better, but that did not stop me pretending to believe that I could get a nice hot dog from a random kiosk in the UK. I was strolling along the banks of the River Trent and feeling quite good that I had chosen my lunch…
“Please sir, Can I have ANOTHER Scotch Egg?”
Ok it’s all getting a bit out of hand on the Scotch Egg consumption front! After a year and a half in Chicago where I had located and consumed the grand total of two scotch eggs, I am becoming overwhelmed with the plethora of opportunity here in the UK. When I was last over here you…
Club sandwich or Double Decker? – its all in the toast
When is a Club Sandwich not a Club Sandwich? When it is a double decker. A Double Decker is so called because each layer of filling forms a deck, much like a double decker London bus. A club sandwich on the other hand is double-decker with two layers of fillings between three slices of toasted bread. Traditionally the club ingredients…
How often do you pick up a Scotch Egg to be told “That was a pig yesterday”?
Today at the Farmer’s market in Loughborough I chanced upon the Woodhouse Farm stall where a young chap was selling a whole load of meats from the farm, sausages, bacon, hams, steaks, black pudding and much more. In amongst that were a few ‘misshapen’ scotch eggs. As I picked one up, in between offering us…
Jamie’s Italian – Nottingham
It’s hard not to get excited about a trip to one of Jamie Oliver’s resturants, over the years he has been almost constantly in the spotlight and gets as much good press and he gets bad press. He has probably featured equally on the what’s hot and what’s not lists. I think to me his greatest…
An Authentic Amercian Burger in the UK? “Come to Annie’s Burger Shack”
As tip offs goes this was the real deal. I had heard that there was a pub in Nottingham where an American lady was putting out really good authentic American Hamburgers. This I had to see for myself and so I trotted along to the Trent Navigation Pub on Wilford Street by the canal to…
The Silly Sausage Cafe – A not so greasy ‘Greasy Spoon’
I am hoping that people are not getting too bored of my lack of progress along the El Stop Hunt while I am in the UK. I know that I am not, I am spending my time ensuring that I promote a stereotypical or is it a ‘rose tinted’ view of what this country…
10 years on, No rain for a change today, so it has to be a lunch at Deli 8
It really does not seem like it but it is 10 years since Deli 8 opened it’s doors in the bustling Nottingham suburb of West Bridgford in 2002. I could not really believe it myself, I often came here for lunch back then when I lived and worked in Nottingham and so I was curious to…
English Farmers Market – Meat, more meat, bacon and scotch eggs
I love a good farmer’s market, whether in the UK or the USA you can always be assured of getting your hands on some good local produce. In Chicago you are usually getting fruit and vegetables from Illinois and the surrounding States of Michigan and Wisconsin. In Nottingham it was meat and dairy from Nottinghamshire,…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 