This weekend I was forced to give up the fight. The leaves have started their decent into gold-hued death, the birds have ceased their joyful song, September mornings bring a new, silver-tinged chill to the air and Pia has put away the garden furniture. Summer, my friends, is over. Read more » >>
If Wikipedia is to be believed (and why wouldn’t it be), the tomatillo is a member of the nightshade family, and is related to the cape gooseberry. It is not, as I thought when I bought some last week, a green Swedish tomato. Nor is it in any way connected to the tomato family. In fact the two don’t even know each other. Read more » >>
…is a British writer and editor who moved to Sweden in 2001. A former chef turned food and travel writer, he loves everything about food, but particularly the raw ingredients themselves. When not cooking, eating or thinking about food, he can often be found hanging around in butchers shops, fishmongers and grocery stores; a hobby he can pursue for hours on end. He hopes that writing this blog will take up so much time that it halves his food shopping bills.