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 ...
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.
The Summer is rolling on, the festivals and the sports-event-that-cannot-be-named are kicking off, so to brighten up your Summer just a little more we have another exciting competition for you lovely people. We're offering ten food geeks, yes TEN, the chance to win tickets for them and a friend to attend Foodies ...
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" ...
Last month saw the coming together of so many great things, lemonade and scones, deep fat frying and meringues, eggs and red food colouring, and old and new geeks at our ...
This month, the TFGE crew were treated to a private dining experience at the newly refurbished Harvey Nichols Forth Floor restaurant to try out the new tasting menu and have a gander at the ...
Edinburgh has been proving its worth when it comes to inspiring cooking over the last few years... we've added multiple Michelin stars to our belt, had home grown contestants on MasterChef and The Great British Bake Off, and now our very own
With due apologies for the tardiness of this post, I'd like to say a big thanks and congratulations to fellow Geek, Aoife, after last week's first Burgher Burger event.
Total Food Geeks came together because of a united love of geeking out about food. Over the past few weeks I've come across some things which I've thought were the epitome of this group mentality, so I thought I'd share them with you all... 1. The first is a book - ...
A verrine is a dessert originally from France made by layering different ingredients in a small glass. I’m going to show you how to make a verrine of Pistachio, Pineapple and Milk Chocolate. It will have layers of Pistachio Crème Brulee, Poached Ginger Pineapple, Biscuit Cuillere and Milk Chocolate ...
