Food

British strawberries just encapsulate summer. Gently cooking fresh strawberries with dried hibiscus flowers, a little chilli and fructose sugar in a sealed bowl over hot water brings out and captures the very essence of summer. Keep the nectar in the ...

It just wouldn’t be summer without a trip to the seaside. Add just a hint of the beach by serving these bite sized British strawberries, dipped in dark glossy chocolate flavoured with just a hint of orange over a bed ...

Ping. Boink. Ping. Boink. Clunk. Cheers.  Fifteen love. If it’s Wimbledon, it’s the strawberry season and summer, after several weeks of dress rehearsals, is here. Don’t knock the strawberry. It’s a little ball of vitamin C. Although a large helping ...

One day back in 2009, Neil Houston had the idea of bringing his friends together to drink gin. Then, he thought – why restrict the day just to his friends? The World Gin Day has now grown into a global ...

Being a Thai and Vietnamese foodie, I was eagerly anticipating Friday 16th May. Asia House was hosting a demonstration lunch of Vietnamese food to launch the Vietnamese Market Cook Book for the Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival. I came  ...

With the sixth annual Big Lunch taking place in thousands of communities on Sunday, 1st June, celebrity cook A Girl Called Jack has shared a scrumptious selection of affordable recipes perfect for any Big Lunch. The Big Lunch – the ...

National Smile Month (19th May-19th June) will leave you beaming at giraffe. The family-friendly restaurant group giraffe is well known for serving up a mix of global fresh food that’s guaranteed to put a smile on your face. To help ...

If you were in or about Brick Lane’s Vibe Bar on 5th May, you may have caught sight or scent of a crowd of young revellers blowing raspberries – all over the place. The happy dozens were celebrating the permanent ...

Feeling hungry? Then head down to Farr’s School of Dancing in Dalston. No, we haven’t got our wires crossed: Farr’s is an upmarket pub in Dalston which takes its name from the dance school which previously occupied the premises where ...

ELN spoke to Chris Orr, London Wine Week’s guru, who has spent nearly a quarter of a century immersed in wine (figuratively speaking).   For how long have humans been making and drinking wine? We’ve been drinking wine since as ...