Total Food Geeks is an excellent project, bringing together food writers and enthusiasts together, from across Edinburgh. We continue to enjoy playing an active part in all its various activities, although we've been a little remiss, of late, in keeping up with our previous regimen of regular posting. We've recently become ...
What is it that makes the perfect restaurant, for you? Is a roaring fire a must-have during winter, as you feast on slow-cooked venison and glug a full-bodied red? Are there some other set of elements ...
I understand that three minutes doesn’t sound like a particularly noteworthy time to wait, but rarely do I feel more conscious of the passage of time than when watching the sands of time slip through an hourglass. On a recent visit, to Pekoe Tea, in Tollcross, I sampled sencha green ...
Given that we tend to eat out, rather a lot, the various chefs around Edinburgh do a great job of keeping us on the straight and narrow, ensuring that we eat seasonally and locally. We are truly blessed in this regard, ...
This year’s Edinburgh festival, and in particular the Edinburgh International Book Festival, has been a very busy time, so it proved rather propitious timing that we were to spend a weekend in Perthshire, in the middle of the month, to celebrate our friend Mary’s birthday.
What speaks more of the Great British Summer than the Garden Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse? Cucumber sandwiches on the lawn, refreshing glasses of elderflower cordial, a nice wedge of fruitcake, with ladies in hats and gentlemen in morning coats; there is something quintessentially and splendidly British about the ...
This month’s theme of “Danger Zone” has a range of different connotations, for me. It means at least all of the following: “Dangerous” food: from fugu preparation to munching on scorpions, some intrepid folks like sampling all manner of dangerous or scary looking items. It’s not really for me, though. [caption id="attachment_3336" ...
We did it! After nearly 28 hours, most of which had involved mind-blowing pain and agony, MJ and I danced across the finishing line at Brighton racecourse to the cheers of the assembled supporters and friends, to complete our 100km London to Brighton challenge. Some of ...
It was with considerable serendipitous glee that I read about this month's theme, the art of eating. It sounded very familiar. Where had I heard it before? I felt that nagging sensation of palpably proximate knowledge. And then I closed the book that I had open in my lap and ...
Not to get all geekily self-congratulatory, but I really enjoyed Georgia’s post from the other day, which she generously attributed to our questing ways. In response, slightly by accident, I’ve found myself “experimenting” in the opposite direction over the past few days, so thought I’d write a little responding ...
