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Naples VIP Pizza Tours

Journey to the holy city of pizza with Daniel Young, creator of youngandfoodish and author of Where To Eat Pizza: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Pizza Places in the World. https://youtu.be/WWnvkDtXNu4 These insider's tours are co-hosted by pizza photographer and...

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What to make of a chocolate bagel?

https://youtu.be/pFNc529k0Ns B Bagel Bakery makes their bagels the old-skool way: hand-rolled, boiled and baked, With locations in Soho, Fulham and Tottenham Court Road, it's my go-to resource in the heart of London for plain, sesame, poppy, onion or everything bagels...

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Cannoli Napkin Holders at Panificio Costanza

Throughout the populated areas of Sicily you are rarely more than 100 metres from a good cannolo, a fried pastry tube filled with sweet ricotta cream. The filling is often dotted with mini-chocolate chips and may also contain nuts, lemon or orange zest, mascarpone and...

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A Pop-Up Logo for Me & My Pop-Up Dinners

From the inaugural BurgerMonday pop-up  on 24 January 2011 with the Young Turks as guest chefs to the first FryFriday pop-up on 10 February 2012 with Anh Vu and Van Tran of Banhmi11 my dinners have been shared experiences only as good as - but, happily,  every bit as...

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My Most Read Posts of 2011

So not so burger-manic a year after all. Only half on my most read posts published in 2011 were about burgers: 1. At MEATliquor, Burger Love is Blind 2. My Confidence Cracked in Bistro du Vin Burger 3. Is Devouring a St John Custard Doughnut Truly the Best Thing to Do...

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Duke Ellington: King of Jazz & Gluttony

The three-part profile of jazz great Duke Ellington written by Richard O.Boyer for The New Yorker in 1944 isn't just one of the greatest musical portraits ever written for a magazine. "The Hot Back" is a classic in food and travel writing, too, a tell-all from a then...

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“We believe in the flavour of spices”

When asked why virtually all Indians choose to cook and eat their guinea fowl and chicken without skin, Anirudh Arora, the chef at Moti Mahal in Covent Garden, did not think fat was a factor. "We believe in the flavour of spices," reasoned Arora, composing a mantra...

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The New Trainee Barista at Penny University

Early this morning, Gwilym Davies was about to board a flight home from Malta to London when he received a urgent call from Tim Styles of the coffee shop Penny University. Penny U was a man down for the day and Styles wanted to know if Davies, the 2009 World Barista...

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how a dish is like a suitcase

Before adding a new dish to the menu, the astute chef scrutinizes it as a practiced traveller would his or her packed suitcase: 1. Search the contents and identify the least necessary item. 2. Remove that item. This case for simplicity can be applied to many of life's...

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if third man’s harry lime were a foodie

If Harry Lime, the villain from Carol Reed's 1949 British film noir The Third Man, were a food obsessive, as was Orson Welles, the actor who portrayed and embellished the Graham Greene creation, than one of the most famous lines in cinema history might have read...

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it’s a wonderful thing, dinner for two

The famous last line of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, winner of the 1961 Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Screenplay, punctuates a game of gin rummy between Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) and C. C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon): BUD I love you, Miss Kubelik. FRAN...

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What to make of a bad first taste

youngandfoodish: @NancyRomm Hate when u try an exotic dish for 1st time & it's wrongly prepared. Can't be sure if u dislike dish or only that version of it. NancyRomm: @youngandfoodish I once had a boyfriend like that. It was the guy.

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