Orange Blossom Water
How to use Orange Blossom Water
Monthly Archive September, 2007
Yes Chef!-Part One
The Early Years….My First Day in a Hotel Kitchen
This is the story of a commis chef, set in a four star hotel some time in the 1980’s, I have changed the name of the two leading parts to ‘I’ (me) and ‘Chef’ (Chef)
I was destined to be a commis (trainee) chef, I ticked all of […]
The Luck of the Buddha
How working overtime and the Buddha saved my life
I am prompted to tell this story following a recent post by a fellow food blogger. The original post was about the recent tragic plane crash in Phuket, Thailand and how the author sticks with Asian good luck charms in tandem with sensible precautions before embarking on […]
Salt Scrubs and Tea Bags
The merits of social networking in cyberspace
This blog is one of millions, food blogs are set to take over the world and Tom Cruise (playing me) will make a film about it which nobody will quite understand. There are food blogs for everything and from everywhere so why bother starting my own? Well, the main […]
Ten Years After
A decade at the helm of a country house kitchen
This week sees my tenth anniversary as Head Chef of a country house hotel. As we approach a weekend of six hundred and sixty covers I recall the hotel’s anguish at wether or not I could start in time for a Jaguar dinner for sixty-how times […]