Food

The Saffron Tales Cookbook

I always love it when a publisher (thanks Bloomsbury) sends me a new cookbook, and I was delighted when ‘The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen‘ dropped on my doormat.  From the short stories dotted throughout the book, alongside the recipes, Yasmin Khan opens up…

Le Swine Bacon Butty

They set out to make the ultimate bacon butty, ‘they’ being Bruno Loubet and  his former chef James Packman, and Le Swine is proof they’ve cracked it. A year was spent researching this butty, looking for the main ingredient, the finest free- range, pork and finding…