The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
Yotam Ottolenghi
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned... →
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells... →
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see... →
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
'The Guardian''s 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.