The Sigla Blog

What the hell was going on with yesterday’s Observer Food Monthly? Last week I got the Observermail (which gives you a sneak preview of what’s coming up in Sunday’s paper), and it mentioned the Food mag would feature Nigel Slater’s ‘Taste of Summer’. Good stuff, I thought to myself, already looking forward to lots of […]

Anyone passing through here with even a modicum of regularity has probably noticed the blog equivalent of a tumbleweed passing through. I’ve been working a hell of a lot in the last month and a couple of things I’ve been doing are food-related. I used to bake a huge amount as a child. No weekend […]

It’s almost a year to the day since I lamented the closing of the Winding Stair, a wonderful café/book shop hybrid that is much missed. In the April edition of Food and Wine Magazine, there is heartening news. Apparently The Thomas Read Group have bought the venue and plan to re-open it as a ‘gastro-library’. […]

As promised in my mini anti-Valentine’s rant, here’s a piece a wrote for the current issue of Food and Wine Magazine called ‘Chocolate: The lore, the legend, the lies’.
Valentine’s Day, depending on your viewpoint, is either the most romantic day of the year or a bumper bonanza for florists and card-manufacturers. While some of us […]

Damien has been salivating about food blogs and all this culinary talk got me thinking. Blogging is synonymous with opinion . be it soap-boxing rants or informed analysis and yet this seems to be absent from many food blogs. Or perhaps, it’s just the food blogs I’ve visited. Many seem to focus on reviews, recipes, […]