For the launch of my SpagWednesday series of London pop-ups I shot a video homage to the classic American commercial for Prince Spaghetti. The original spot was filmed in 1969 in Boston’s North End and ran nationally in the US for 13 years. Above you can view them side-by-side.
Our notion of “Prince” may be different but the overall message is the same in 2011 London as it was in 1969 Boston: Wednesday is spaghetti day.
Andrew's Cafe may have been gutted, but our memories of the kitchen takeovers that transformed a greasy spoon into a silver spoon endure. For our BurgerMonday, SpagWednesday, WichThursday, FriFriday, CoffeeSaturday and DeliSunday pop-ups, we drew culinary superstars...
I had my first Negroni, the now wildly popular cocktail of gin, red vermouth and bitters, at a bar in the Prati district of Rome in 1994. The man next to me had one hand on a red cocktail, the other on a woman who looked exactly like Italian actress Monica Vitti...
SpagWednesday Week is my video mix of photos taken by Paul Winch-Furness at six SpagWednesday pop-ups organised in London by young&foodish. The featured guest chefs are Arcangelo Dandini of L'Arcangelo in Rome, Rowley Leigh of Le Café Anglais in London, Giorgio...
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