Posted on Oct 26, 2006 in Cook, Food for Friends | 5 comments

Harira for bookclub

Our last Bibliofemme bookclub – for The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson – was held at my flat on a rapidly-darkening autumn evening. The previous evening had been cold and dreary as I walked home from my webmaster course so I decided to start a soup, leave it sit overnight, and then finish it...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2006 in Do, Travel | 2 comments

Berlin for Prix Europa

In Berlin most of this week to present the Other Voices website at the Prix Europa internet competition. A total of 22 sites are nominated for the Exploration award, each of which has to give a half-hour presentation. Our area of the competition is fortunately limited to three days – long, intense and...
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Posted on Oct 17, 2006 in Kitchen | 6 comments

A new place to cook

A new place to cook
Well, after a few years of searching – plus 2½ never-ending months of frustrating to-ing and fro-ing with mortgage providers, solicitors and auctioneers – the Boyfriend and I have finally managed to take possession of a little country cottage, our Irish bach, in North County Cork. It is a...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2006 in Do, Read | 2 comments

Boiled, Baked & Basted

Boiled, Baked & Basted
In yet another of my infrequent series of alerts about Irish food programmes, a new RTÉ Radio 1 show called Boiled, Baked & Basted started on Saturday night. It features chefs talking about the favourite and most inspirational cookbooks in their collection (Bibliochef, perhaps?!) and the first show has...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2006 in Do | 0 comments

Time for baking, but not for writing

With the onset of cooler weather, the amount of cooking and baking in my house has increased, if not the recent writing about it. It’s no longer torturously hot in our tiny kitchen if the oven is on and, as a result, I’ve gotten back into baking old reliables like Brown Soda Bread and our...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2006 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Saha: A Chef’s Journey through Lebanon and Syria by Greg and Lucy Malouf ****

Saha: A Chef’s Journey through Lebanon and Syria by Greg and Lucy Malouf ****
While at last year’s Savour New Zealand, Australian chef Greg Malouf was just back from a month spent travelling and eating in Lebanon and Syria and he spoke enthusiastically about the book that he was writing with his former wife, Lucy, based on the time they spent there. Saha is the gorgeous end...
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