PURE absolute genius is the best way to describe Fiendish & Goode. Taking great British classics like Victoria Sponge and Lemon Drizzle Cake, they came up with the idea of offering these bakes as bite-size morsels. The perfect excuse to indulge but in an oh so delicate way. You can read our interview with them here.
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Kitty Travers loves ice cream. From travelling the world in search of new flavours to her excitement at the arrival of new seasonal fruits, hers is a passion of a first love. Slightly giddy, very infectious, and like her ice creams, the real thing.
Her passion for ice cream started early.“I had a waitress job in Cannes and I discovered a little ice cream shop. This was ice cream made from the fruits of southern France and local sweets, where the flavours changed every day. And I thought how do l make this?” The place was called Vilfeu, an ice cream parlour just off the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes. Over a decade on and her passion shows no sign of waning. In fact, like a true romance - her fascination, delight, and dedication to her craft has led her to seek out peach ice cream in Texas (you’ll see why later), to enjoying Fior di Latte in Scotland (it is made with real butter). Such is her passion that she tells me, “even if I wasn’t selling it, I would still be making it and eating it”. After training as a chef in New York and working with Mario Batali at Otto, where she got her first opportunity to experiment and truly indulge her passion for ice-cream, she returned to London, working at St John Bar and Restaurant before launching La Grotta Ices in 2006. Heralded as one to watch in Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs (she was nominated by Fergus Henderson), her gift for flavours has always been obvious. When we first met Matt Atkinson, Cobble Lane Cured was just becoming.. well Cobble Lane Cured and British charcuterie was still new to London. Since then, this home-grown product has gone from strength to strength with a merry band of skilled artisans making some award winning cured meats here in London. We still can't get enough of Cobble Lane Cured salamis. You can read our interview with Matt here.
Despite its proximity to Victoria Station, Ebury Street is more village that crowded thoroughfare. In this corner of central London just off Buckingham Palace Road, you’ll find the picturesque grandeur of Belgravia with its Georgian terraces, statement window boxes and celebrated boutique shopping. On Ebury Street, there are all manner of delights from William Curley famed chocolates (their afternoon tea is a must-do) to Pimlico Road Farmers’ Market on a Saturday, and Daylesford Organic. There’s Peggy Porschen cakes on the corner of Elizabeth and Ebury, and of course Poilane, and Baker and Spice nearby.
Other E’s we can't get enough of include: Elsey & Bent, green grocer at London Borough Market; Edgware Road for its Turkish food and grocers; and England Preserves who make the most wonderful gooseberry and elderflower jam. A-Z REFERENCE: MAP 74/ 5C FOR YOUR ADDRESS BOOK: William Curley Patisseries Chocolatier, 198 Ebury Street SW1W 8UN . Tel 020 7730 5522 Pimlico Farmers' Market, Orange Square, Pimlico Road SW1W 8UT Baker and Spice, 54-56 Elizabeth St SW1W 9PB. Tel 020 7730 3033 Peggy Porschen Parlour, 116 Ebury Street SW1W 9QQ. Tel 020 7730 1316 Daylesford Organic, 44B Pimlico Rd, SW1W 8LP Poilâne, 46 Elizabeth St, SW1W 9PA Elsey & Bent, Borough Market, Southwark Street, SE1 9AF England Preserves, 2. 148 Spa Road, SE16 4EJ Two hours south of San Francisco is Merdec. For anyone who doesn’t live there, it’s a non-descriptive town, located somewhere between here and nowhere, in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California. Stretching out lazily through a series of repeated clapboard houses and abandoned stores, where the town begins and the city limits end, no one can tell.
Like so many small towns in California’s central valley, named progress has been its enemy. Whereas once motorists stopped on their journey towards Los Angeles or Yosemite, now the super Golden State Highway speeds past taking most tourists with it. In this almost featureless landscape where very little offers respite, the only thing thriving in Merdec are the almond groves that line its highways, which in this prolonged season of drought ravish the land like the credit crunch from which this town has never recovered. Off the Highway along Martin Luther King Jnr Way is Mario’s Tacos. This yellow beacon on an otherwise bleak street is easy to spot. It’s a lone kiosk opposite the Merdec Fairground Speedway, in a parking lot where most of the stores, even the local gun supplier, have gone out of business. You can read more of my article here. |
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