clever gretel
This dish has been keeping Balts cool during the summer since the Middle Ages. It’s tangy, refreshing and will quickly become your heat-wave staple. Time: 60 minCost: £Serves: 4-6Difficulty: Mid Equipment you will need: A knife A grater A chopping board A big pot A large mixing bowl. A mixing spoon Ingredients: A bunch of […]
Welcome to Gretel’s Bookshelf, where we spotlight interesting cookbooks from around the world, speak to experts about their history, and pick out the best recipes. Not many people remember Tadeusz Żakiej, a post-war Polish musicologist and composer who is at most a footnote in the history of Polish theatre and performance. Meanwhile, Żakiej’s contemporaries, a […]
Fresh ingredients are cheaper than ready meals, but men’s unchanging lack of interest in domestic cooking insures the continuing success of microwavable meals. Increased rates of employment among women in the late twentieth century are the reason for the continuing decline in home-cooking, according to new research released this weekend by the Institute for Fiscal […]
Artist Kasia Grzelak discusses her new series ‘Matka Poltka, Imigrantka’, the Catholic Church and her love of bread and salt If you have taken the metro in Newcastle recently, chances are you have seen some of Kasia Grzelak’s artworks from her latest “Matka, Polka, Imigrantka” series (Mother, Pole, Immigrant). They were meant to be displayed […]
Two London based friends discuss producing their cookbook Recipes Against Racism, and the meaning of food in their cultures Claire Sachiko Fourel and Lex Shu Chan, like many Londoners, are “third culture kids.” Chan was born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong before they completed their education in Britain, while Fourel was born in […]