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Shortlisted Picture Book Of The Year 2012: A World Of Food
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 13:32:38
A mouth-watering fairy-tale world like you've never seen with pasta palm trees, magical mushroom forests, chocolate swiss roll trains and some very meaty-looking mountains…
There are many mediums through which to express your art, be it in pen and ink, oil paints, collage, or crayon. Using food materials is perhaps one of the more unusual techniques but these are the raw ingredients coming together in this highly
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Rachel Allen
By Catherine O’Dolan on 17/04/2010 19:11:58
Q&A with the television chef and author of Rachel's Favourite Food
Rachel Allen, author of Rachel's Favourite Food and mother of Josh, 10, Lucca, seven, and Scarlett Lily, one reveals her foodie secrets What’s your earliest food memory? I do remember being taught to milk a cow when I was about five
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Restaurant review: Chipotle
By Catherine O'Dolan on 01/02/2012 16:25:07
A perfect pit stop for fresh Mexican food with an environmental conscience to boot
Fast food gets a bad rap, with many equating “fast” with “junk”. Not so at Chipotle Mexican Grill, a new kind of eaterie, fresh from the States, that promises to give diners “food with integrity”. And that manifests itself in a firm commitment
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Mary McCartney's delicious family recipes: Sunday Roast, Meatballs and Cheesy Quesadillas
By Catherine O'Dolan on 23/08/2010 15:38:22
Dine in with tasty vegetarian home-cooked foods from Mary McCartney's meat-free kitchen
Sunday Roast TerrineServes a family of 4Ingredients4 Linda McCartney Veggie Burgers (or similar soya mince burgers), cooked as per instructions on pack and broken into pieces with a fork1 medium onion, chopped finely12 button mushrooms chopped finelyPinch dried mixed herbs1 tbs r...
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Announcing The Junior Design Awards
By Catherine O'Dolan on 16/12/2010 10:54:42
The only awards that celebrate excellence in design & style for children's fashion, lifestyle & interiors, travel, food, toys and books
of the year * Best classic book * New illustarator/author talentTRAVEL * Best family hotel UK * Best hotel: Europe/rest of world * Best hotel group * Best family tour operator * Best family holiday * Best Travel productFOOD & DINING * Best children’s food
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Cooking with Raymond Blanc
By Catherine O'Dolan on 07/08/2010 12:11:55
A lifelong love of good food and a rich culinary heritage encouraged Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc to open his own cookery class to inspire and educate mini chefs
was the very heart of the house. From about five or six years, my siblings and I were already helping our father in the garden. We were five children and we didn’t have much money, so the garden was very important; it was the garden that produced our food
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Chef Ken Hom celebrates Chinese New Year
By Catherine O'Dolan on 08/02/2013 10:31:00
The King of Chinese cooking shares his food memories and some delicious recipes
What's your earliest food memory? Probably at around five years old when my mum made Chinese sausage steamed with rice. It smelled so comforting and appetising and I still think of that smell today.What foods did you like as a child, and what did
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Parisian-style family dining (& celeb spotting) at Le Relais de Venise in Marylebone
By Catherine O'Dolan on 21/07/2010 17:11:17
There's no menu but the food is great at this family-friendly restaurant that's great for celebrity spotting
There are two quite unique features about the bustling French eaterie, Le Relais de Venise, which is a replica of the Parisian original that has been open for over 50 years. Firstly, you can’t reserve a table – even if you are the owner, so they say. Instead, you stand huddled in...
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Top chefs at home: Jérôme Ponchelle
By Catherine O'Dolan on 09/09/2010 11:38:49
Jérôme Ponchelle, Executive Chef at The Capital Restaurant, and father of Alexis, four, and Téo, three, on home-cooked food and the recipe for his favourite family pudding
purée made with 75 per cent carrot and 25 per cent potato.Any golden rules for raising a happy eater? Don’t give them snacks between meals.What’s the best way to tempt a fussy eater? I always use a sauce for my children to dip their food in. It is just a
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A foodie conversation with awarding-winning author, Amanda Grant
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 18:02:31
Award-winning author Amanda Grants talks about her fondest childhood food memories and setting the world – or rather the kitchen – on fire!
What’s your earliest food memory?My late grandma’s special teas. My granddad used to take my brothers to the park to kick a ball about while I helped my grandma make ‘footballers cakes’, which I absolutely loved to do. I now realise that they were
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