Learn to Make Bread with Hungry Tiger

It’s been a long time in the works, but it’s finally here. May I please present Baker & Loaf — Artisan Bread Making Classes in London:

Baker and Loaf

Why learn with Baker &  Loaf?

The Geek Factor — Bread making has very few major variables (flour, water, yeast, salt) but there’s a heck of a lot you can do with them. I didn’t want to teach people to make one single loaf of bread, following a recipe, then go home with no idea [...]

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TigerBites: MEATliquor, Marylebone

The Dead Hippe Burger — no oil painting….

Eating in a restaurant has been likened to buying a slice of lifestyle which doesn’t necessarily belong to you. For example, book dinner at any of London’s overpriced overstyled “it” restaurants and feel like an oligarch for the evening; as long as you can pay the bill, no one has to know otherwise.

In a similar vein, cult burger joint MEATliquor is so overtly, drippingly, jaw-achingly cool that you’re automatically cool by [...]

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Foodie Read of the Week: The Trade in Adulterated Olive Oil

Interesting article of the week:

Slippery Business – The Trade in Adulterated Olive Oil by Tom Mueller (The New Yorker)

via the Guardian’s Word of Mouth Blog.

I’m a huge fan of good quality olive oil, spending what might reasonably be called ‘ridiculous’ sums of money (by those who buy the mass-produced stuff) on freshly-pressed olive-y goodness. It irks me that as we turn increasingly to buying smaller amounts of better quality foodstuffs, certain cynical producers are cashing in on our tastes.

All the more reason to buy your food from an easily [...]

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In Brief

Culinary school graduate.
Umami addict.
Wine junkie.
Londoner.
Writer.