Food History Jottings

Visitors to my kitchen frequently remark on the large number of antique jelly moulds scattered around the room. I usually explain th...

In 2015 I was commissioned by the Getty Research Institute to produce a replica of a sugar table centrepiece designed by the eighteenth cent...

Behind the sugar moulded torso of Neptune and his trident is an almond cake, decorated with ornamental bands of snow sugar and surmounted ...

A Twelfth Cake as not seen on TV! Recently I have watched a lot on British television (and heard even more on the radio) about Twelft...

At the School of Artisan Food François Marin's intensely flavoured  'restaurant', a restorative quintessence which gave it...