Cuizine

Andrew Stellitano is a food designer. His commissions, by clients like Gucci and Lyle’s Golden Syrup have resulted in creations like geographical lasagne, emoticon bento nori and most famously, the most expensive mince pie ever. Like most art, context adds a lot of depth to his work and reading the explanations and research that has [...]

Situated on Macdougal street in historic Greenwich Village, The Minetta Tavern was a hangout of Kerouac, Hemingway, Ezra Pound and various other literary figures in the years that made the village famous. The area has long gone from bohemian to boho, as is usual with cities the rents go up and artists move out, but [...]

I first heard of David Chang in an article in the Observer Food Monthly that mainly focused on his mythical pork buns, but didn’t really give me much of an impression of his restaurants. I got more of that when watching an episode of Vice’ munchies series (Chang goes to a fried chicken joint in [...]

A couple of weeks back,  we posted up Timmy Vulgar’s DIY cookery show, a tour de force of soulful Mexican cooking from the caustic and often hilarious frontman of deranged alien punk bands Human Eye and Timmy’s Organism. We were so taken with Timmy’s passion for food, we caught up with him over the magic [...]

From all the culinary media I have been consuming recently, from what friends who’ve been out there have told me, they were lecturing us about craft beer and the burgers were served pink, YOU HAVE TO GO and from the craze for American food trends (burgers, hot dogs, BBQ) in London. It became clear to [...]

The holiday season is the most feast-laden part of the year and thus, it is my favorite time of the year. I couldn’t really give a shit about getting some presents at Christmas, and I straight up just don’t go out on New Years Eve because its so overly hyped that it always ends up [...]

In the hottest English October in recorded history (my thermometer / Twister melted in less than five minutes), Benjamin Savva and I held a cookery class for Belly Kids at Beach Gallery. We turned up drunk at the gallery from a couple of bottles of white wine and coke; our own bad mix (the white [...]

In 1946 George Orwell wrote an essay titled ‘The Moon Under Water‘ an idyllic paean to his perfect pub. As with all of Orwell’s work, his words still ring true, painting a picture of an essentially classless, welcoming place ‘whose clientele… go there for conversation as much as for the beer’. During a chance visit [...]

I travelled to Slovenia recently with my girlfriend Liv, and in my research for the trip (reading Lonely Planet), one of the first things I read about was an equine eatery named Hot Horse. It’s apparently a true favourite with the locals and renowned enough to be mentioned in the wikipedia entry for Horsemeat. I [...]

On a recent foray to Sainsbury’s Local, the cheekily price marked-up little brother of the big stores, I stumbled across this bin, a manager’s special, chock full of Sainsbury’s Basics Curry Sauce at the have to look twice price of just 9p. Nine pennies, an astounding price for a jar that even at basics brand, [...]