TV doesn't help our kitchen nightmares | Jessica Reed
Posted by edwina 107 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
There's too much foodtainment on our screens, and not enough shows aimed at teaching couch potatoes how to cookAs a child, I was allowed to watch as much television on Saturday and Sunday mornings as I pleased. I monopolised the living room, watching American sitcoms until 11.30am, when my mother would enter the room with a notepad and pen and ask me to change the channel so she could watch her f
The best and worst kitchen gadgets
Posted by edwina 122 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
We've trawled the internet to find the best, the worst and the most useless kitchen gadgets for your home
Health Tip: Preventing a Kitchen Fire
Posted by mittan 141 days ago (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
Precautions you should take Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Fire Safety
Taste of London - in the kitchen
Posted by edwina 150 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Open kitchens are all the rage at the moment - but do we really want to dine with it all on show? Blogger and WoM Taste Festival Fringe tweeter The Ginger Gourmand wonders where the line should be drawnAmbling around Regent's Park last Saturday afternoon you could have been forgiven for thinking that Taste of London was all about celebrity chefs playing at front of house for the day. The top name
The next interactive online cookery class will be on Tuesday 23 June. What we're going to be making is still a secret ...The internet's only live, interactive cookery class is making a triumphant return later this month. We warmed ourselves with a hearty vegetable curry in the gloom of February, roused our tastebuds from hibernation with salmon and chilli bulgar in March, and felt the warmth of s
The menu at 21212 aims to circumvent those unpleasant pangs of dining table indecision. Are you happy to let the chef choose what you're having for dinner?Paul Kitching, formerly of the Michelin-starred Juniper in Altrincham, has just opened his new restaurant in Edinburgh. Last year, contemplating his plans for the move north, he declined to tell me what he was going to call the place, because t
Matthew Fort: Kitchen calamities
Posted by edwina 189 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
From exploding eggs to fulminating fish, what's gone disastrously wrong in your kitchen?Poor old Kirk Broadfoot. I mean, to have egg on your face, quite literally. It's no laughing matter. No, it isn't. Mind, you, Kirk's up there with other soccer luminaries when it comes to unfortunate accidents. Remember how Rio Ferdinand strained a tendon in his knee when he put his leg up on a coffee table w
In the final part of his guide to kitchen gardening, Dan Pearson reveals why organic is best, what tools you'll need and how mixed planting helps veggies growIf you are growing your own, it makes perfect sense to garden organically. I've always done so and don't have the worry that "junk food" fertilisers or chemicals are working their way into my food. Soil that is well prepared and improved wit
