Joel Salatin is America’s most celebrated pioneer of chemical-free farming – but if you want to taste his beef or chicken you’ll have to move to Virginia. He talks to Gaby Wood about why local is best and his role in the documentary Food, Inc, which attacks the giants of industrialised food productionJoel Salatin is [...]
Daniel Clifford’s food puts paid to the myth that Michelin stars are about cooking that thinks ‘creativity’ is more important than the puntersA brief ceasefire is duly declared in this column’s futile battle against the pernicious influence of the world’s most irritating food guide. For years I have railed against Michelin Stars In Their Eyes, [...]
Would a cerebral cheffy conference like Madrid Fusión work here in the UK? Why are all our big food events so overwhelmingly commercial in character?Madrid Fusión is over for another year and, as usual, Ferran Adrià stole the show. Usually when he makes his annual appearance as the headlining act at the highbrow culinary congress, [...]
Now it’s easier than ever for management to cut you in on a slice of the action. What’s the best food treat your boss has ever bought, and how does a company-funded cake club sound to you?In the dog days of January – or indeed during any month with an ‘r’ in it – there [...]
There’s a theory around that yogic meditation can heighten the experience of eating and drinking. Can one truly be a yogi and a foodie?Being a food lover in your mid-40s involves carrying something of an occupational health burden. Like many men of substance I keep my cholesterol low with statins. I also keep my blood [...]
Waitrose is ranked first with a satisfaction rating of 79% in a poll carried out by Which?When money is tight consumers might be expected to make price the priority when choosing a supermarket, but in a survey today upmarket Waitrose is named Britain’s most popular supermarket.Waitrose is ranked first with a satisfaction rating of 79% [...]
The world’s best chef is taking a two-year break – but foodies need not despairSo, Ferran Adria has announced that El Bulli – the best restaurant in the world – is set to close for a couple of years, and jaws have dropped wide enough to shove a whole tasting menu in. “No meals will [...]
After a facelift, the Krupskaya brand is as popular in Russia as everThere isn’t anything quite like it. Madame Mao’s Sweet’n’Sour Sauce? Natalia Trotsky’s Mexican Pick’n’Mix? Perhaps not. Somehow the wives of communist dictators just don’t cut it as food brands. Except in Russia, where for the last 70 years Krupskaya chocolate – named after [...]
A book has claimed that Pope John Paul II flagellated himself in a bid to bring himself closer to Christian perfection. The book Why He’s a Saint written by Monsignor Slawomir Oder, says that the Pope used to whip himself and deny himself food.
Does searing meat to lock in juices really work? What’s the real secret to a juicy, flavoursome steak?Some myths can be as irritatingly persistent as a dog at a barbecue. Most of us, I think, can accept that you don’t get piles from sitting on radiators, and that the world didn’t hatch from an eagle’s [...]