Last week I was at One Pig, a aural trace of a pigs life from the comforts of the farm to my fork. The very same day I had just returned from Wales, where we celebrated by slicing up our first samples of our hams. Timely? You could say that. I have been a fan… [Read more…]
A very fortuitous moment occurred when I realised that the weekend of our Pig Adventure also coincided with Castellano’s All Things Pig Dinner in Bristol. It was meant to be… obviously. Also very lucky was that our Pig/ Anniversary weekend also happened to be in and around the West Country, so an adventure up to Bristol –… [Read more…]
My dear friend B from the fabulously good read Black Dot Cooperative invited me to a supper-club. Knowing absolutely nothing about them, it and where I was heading was a perfectly great suprise. Joy was found in unexpected treats and by trusting the guide. We arrived in the gallery of Protein, a brand agency based… [Read more…]
Firmly back in the land of reality now, after nearly two months off the road and back into the normality of our old routine. It’s easy to let the memories of our amazing trip fade back into he recesses of our minds but the truth is that 8000 miles through the heart of the… [Read more…]
Jason Mann is a farmer with a mission. Forming Full Moon Farms as part of Spring Valley EcoFarms with a group of forward thinking ecologists, chefs, educators, and activists in 2002, he then opened a restaurant, Farm 255. Not content with that, in 2005 he added a farm cart which operates outside his restaurant when it… [Read more…]
S jokes that we are the youngest people in America. He has a point. As we are often staying in RV (aka: Recreational Vehicle) parks where the smart retirees hang out alongside their cats and dogs in their homes on wheels, wearing lots of leisurewear. Not that I mind too much. Older folks are generally… [Read more…]
As much as the excitement of the trip began with the thought of truly American road food, by the time we arrived in Memphis, I was well and over the novelty of eating fried things in buns. Recommendations of various BBQ joints were ignored (not because I didn’t want to try, but a girl can… [Read more…]
Belting it down the freeway to get to St Louis in time for Cocktail Hour at 6pm was a challenge. We had left Chicago around 10am, and with a quick diversion to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first creations left us with almost no time. Always when entering a city, you assume that the action… [Read more…]
We’ve been doing quite a bit of research over the last few months in preparation, but there is one thing that has been on my list for longer than that – ever since I spotted a link to their dinners on the fantastically comprehensive blog, Saltshaker. On Saltshaker, Dan Pearlman links to many supperclubs happening… [Read more…]
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December 22, 2011 by Eliza
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