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A really easy chocolate cake for anyone that hates baking cakes.  Its easy to make, dreamily, creamily light and silken smooth to the tongue. Flourless cakes are always perceived to be difficult and therein lies …

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This is a postscript to the article “Passionate about Pasta” in reply to a food writer we rate very highly. As much as we love to see passion in food writers, it is important that, …

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It’s Wednesday and you have guests for dinner – probably because they don’t feel like cooking either and you weren’t thinking on your feet when it was suggested. Nobody wants to go to a …

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The Chinese didn’t make the first pasta even though the oldest form of this type of food type was found in Lajia (China) in a bowl buried under muddy volcanic slush – it was made …

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Humans started cultivating, peas, water chestnuts and cucumbers around 9,750 BC. Scientists from the University of Hawaii when on an expedition to Myanmar (then known as Burma) found a cave, the Spirit Cave, where …

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Suckling pigs and pit roasting are amongst the oldest forms of  cooking on earth. Long before pots and pans existed, humans have been cooking in pits. It’s a labour intensive process but for those of …

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Desserts have, for the unfortunate,  always been the coup de grâce at the end of a very long and boring meal and for others pure bliss – the calling card of a meal.  Today I have …

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Holland, all too often neglected in gourmet circles, is vital part of any foodie’s trip into culinary heaven. So many Dutch products are part of our everyday lives that that we’re often astounded to discover …