The Underdogs of Spore
12 December 2011 // Food and Drink
By dexter petley An shorter version of this piece appears in the latest issue of An Antidote To Indifference, edited by Andrews of Arcadia – available in the shop now. Winter opens with trees dripping in thick mists, thumping on the yurt roof. I listen like a squatter inside a drum. An acorn, a rotton [...]
Pint by the River: As Darkness Descends
11 November 2011 // Food and Drink
by Roger Clapham It’s almost a cliché when it comes to the onset of winter and beer drinkers start reaching for the dark stuff, however stouts and porters just feel right when the clocks have gone back and the perpetual gloom of the near night-time seems almost constant. Frankly, I’m quite glad to not live [...]
Damsons In The Quietus
2 July 2011 // Food and Drink //Miscellany //On Nature
“There is no way I have the literary skills to describe that taste without sounding totally pretentious. But it is definitely the taste highlight of my life. It is up there with seeing The Clash at Eric’s on 5 May 1977 for great life-changing moments.” The exemplary Quietus – our favourite music website by a [...]
Pint By The River – Dark Star Tripel (8.5%)
9 February 2011 // Food and Drink
by Ben McCormick. With eyes like two halves of a pithy blood orange and a bellyful of wind that’s making sounds to give singing, diving, pilot whales a run for their watery money, I stroll into The Rake in Borough hoping for some solace. Instead, I find Dark Star Tripel. Dark Star brewery started out [...]
Hugh’s Fish Fight
12 January 2011 // Film/TV //Food and Drink
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Channel 4 programme last night – Hugh’s Fish Fight – was tough viewing whichever way you look at it. Much like his exemplary campaign to try to improve welfare for chickens, Fish Fight showed just how screwed up the current quota system is. Actually, scrap that – it’s downright abhorrent. The series [...]
Cake by the River
28 August 2009 // Food and Drink
mmmm, HONEY FLAPJACKS by Rosie Lovell I was kindly asked to contribute a cake recipe for Caught by the River. It was flattering, and I realised I needed to do some research into the best picnic characters, as I’m not myself a fisher woman, just yet. But I do like baking so felt I had [...]
Message From The Country
16 July 2009 // Food and Drink //Miscellany
Our friend and contributor Ben Myers has upped sticks from London to get to know our green and pleasant land a bit better. Thankfully, he said he’d keep in touch. Here’s his latest message from the country…
Cake by the River
23 June 2009 // Food and Drink
the return of the cake. guaranteed to take the blues out of the blanks. (thanks Wendy). Gooseberry cake. Gooseberries have been grown in Britain since the reign of Henry VIII but reached their peak of popularity in the 19th century. During this time England was mad for gooseberries along with all the pies, puddings and [...]
There! In The Bushes!
In London the elderflowers are out. I always take this as a sign we are moving from spring to summer – although they do come out here a couple of weeks before the rest of the country. I like to make cordial with them which is dead easy to do and tastes supercharged compared to [...]
Bloke Walks Into A Pub
26 February 2009 // Food and Drink
So there we were, me and Andrew, minding our own business, enjoying the first pint of the day (at The Cow in Westbourne Park, the perfect place to ease yourself gently into tomorrow’s hangover) when a bloke comes up and asks us how the beer is. We’d gone off-piste that morning when we each opted [...]
