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Blueberry, basil and almond pudding pie! 21 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
Nowhere does blueberries quite like BC, and at the moment it is the season, so I am loving all the local bakeries with their blueberry pies – bursting at their golden, cross-hatched pastry seams with ...
From Vancouver, with love – and lots of courgette flowers 19 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
So it’s been three weeks since I’ve been living in Vancouver and I thought it was about time I wrote a ruddy blog. Sorry for the delay, but the truth is, I’ve been having something of a summer holiday...
Tofino: a wilderness paradise with an incredible food scene 24 Jun 2013 | 02:36 am
The view from the Wickaninnish From Victoria, we headed up the island’s only highway for just over four hours (with a quick wild swim in Lake Sproat) until we reached Tofino – a small surfer wilderne...
To Victoria, BC: Red Fish Blue Fish, The Fairmont Empress and the bees knees 16 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
I was definitely expecting Vancouver to have a cracking food scene, given its location on the West Coast (some have called it the ‘original’ Portland), all the different cultural influences and the fa...
Tacos, Japadogs and a LOT of sushi… welcome to Vancouver 16 Jun 2013 | 12:17 am
A week ago today I was dancing to Daft Punk (and then later, and much more sexily, to Right Said Fred) in the Tiki bar at the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, a pint of Aperol Spritz in my hand, my … Conti...
Roz on film: Masterchef, 60 Second Reviews and my Brixton Kitchen Series for Videojug 10 Jun 2013 | 03:10 pm
When I was about 12, my camcorder was one of my most treasured possessions. I would spend hours with long-suffering friends encouraging them film me as I mimed along to 90s abominations like like Mere...
India revisited: Mumbai’s Irani Cafes for The Guardian 15 May 2013 | 01:07 am
I’ve been lucky enough to visit India three times. The first was as an 12-year-old with a bad fringe and even worse bum bag: awkwardly chubby, pale and privileged and utterly gobsmacked by the smells,...
My (Uyen Luu’s) Vietnamese Kitchen 30 Mar 2013 | 03:51 am
So I’m sorry I have been such a bad blogger of late. I know it’s been a ridiculously long while since I last blogged. I don’t mean to fob you off, and I know this is a lame excuse, but … Continue read...
Food Styling Experiment: Persian pavlova; lamb shank, saffron and rosewater curry; mackerel en papillotes; clams, white beans and kale and tonka bean ... 3 Feb 2013 | 02:05 am
If you’ve been following my Twitter or Instagram (BrixtonRose) of late, you might have seen that the other day I got together with my pal, the lovely and hugely talented photographer Helen Cathcart fo...
Christmas preserves: clementine and Campari marmalade 24 Dec 2012 | 04:55 pm
A few weeks ago I came upon a glut of glass jars (thanks to a frantic clean out of my mother’s fridge, which seemed to be stocked for the end of the world with preserves that went off in 2003), … Cont...
