• Food and crime in Catalunya

    Barcelona Negra was a unique event - a celebration of the crime and dark genre organised in the beautiful Palau de la Virreina. This was a busy and fun festival, the brain child of the very enthusiastic local book store Negra y Criminal. I’m just sorry I had to leave early which meant missing the [...]

    Posted on 10/02/08 | no comments | read on

  • A book for the wish list

    I gave an author chat at the very impressive Borders in Fulham not long ago. At the end the store very kindly said, by way of thanks, ‘Pick a book.’ It was not was easy to choose. There were two floors to the place, all of them stacked with interesting fiction and non-fiction, and titles [...]

    Posted on 01/02/08 | no comments | read on

  • Some new places to eat and drink in Rome

    My last trip saw me staying in a different area, between the Colosseum and San Giovanni. Quiet, a little sparse on the cafe and restaurant front, rather too near some of the tourist tat of the Colosseum… but as always not without promise.
    One much overlooked area in Rome is Monti, which lies behind the Via [...]

    Posted on 10/10/07 | no comments | read on

  • The art of Roman bread

    Panella is a bit snooty. The place describes itself as ‘L’Arte del Pane’, the Art of Bread. I got a very Roman matronly wag of the finger for daring to take a picture - without flash I might add - inside the shop. But I suppose if you’re this good at your job….
    Panella makes bread [...]

    Posted on 30/09/07 | 1 comment | read on

  • Sacro e Profana, an unusual Roman restaurant

    I hate recommending restaurants in Italy for two reasons: they change quickly, and my preference may not be yours. Two old favourites - the pizzeria Li Rioni near the Colosseum and Ditirambo in the Campo Dei Fiori - have been pretty poor of late and are definitely off my list.
    But here’s a very unusual place [...]

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  • Autumn on the way

    I’ve been in this business long enough to recognise that US English and American English can, at times, be very different languages. Though it’s not widely appreciated, many Americanisms that raise a wince in some quarters in the UK are actually older versions of the English language, not modernisms at all. But there are oddities [...]

    Posted on 22/09/07 | no comments | read on

  • Melbourne’s lovely Vic Market

    I’m an absolute sucker for markets partly because there are so few back home in the UK. There’s a wonderful farmers’ market in my neck of the woods in Wye, but only every fortnight. Other than that it’s off to London to go to the gentrified and deeply overpriced Borough Market by London Bridge Station.
    Melbourne’s [...]

    Posted on 31/08/07 | no comments | read on

  • The great Melbourne Writers’ Festival

    Here’s the view from my 39th floor full length window at the Sofitel, Melbourne (I don’t suffer from vertigo, honest, I just want to close the shutters once this photos taken). I’m finally at the major date of this tour and at an event that is a masterclass in how to run a book festival. [...]

    Posted on 29/08/07 | no comments | read on

  • Barramundi please

    The last time I was in Australia a friend in Melbourne introduced me to a very Australian dish: barramundi, or giant perch, a fish that’s native to the country and one I’d never encountered anywhere before.
    It’s a big ‘un. The one at the top is lazing around in a tank at Sydney Aquarium at this [...]

    Posted on 28/08/07 | no comments | read on

  • But what about the fruit?

    Of course, having said Thailand is no longer exotic, I only have to look around my hotel room to realise how daft that was. The proof lies in a bowl of fruit. You just don’t get it like this anywhere else. Even when it’s imported - the taste isn’t the same.
    This is the fruit bowl [...]

    Posted on 19/08/07 | 2 comments | read on
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