As winter becomes ever more pervasive, my impulses turn towards cosy gezelligheid, warm eetcafes, spicy red wine and comfort food. With two newbies in town, I wanted to try somewhere...
Finally, a week after the event, I return to last Friday night – an evening marked by the arrival of ex-Amsterdammer friends. It’s always nice when someone else takes charge...
I can’t count the number of times someone has told me I’ll make a great wife because I can cook. I rarely feel the need to express my feminist principles,...
Well, it really has been quite the gastro weekend. The question is not what to write, but where to start? The beginning might make sense, but I fear that if...
Ever cooked for a nine year-old? Ask them what they want for dinner and all but the most die-hard foodified child has one standard response: pasta. Well, that’s on the...
A little plug here for the latest initiative of one of my all-time food heroes: Jamie Oliver. Mr Oliver has correctly recognised that the organic transfer of culinary knowledge from...
I go through occasional bouts of virtuous foodism. Take today for instance: I’ve just returned from a food shopping expedition to the organic shop, where I eschewed kiwis from the...
Flu a thing of the past and drinking hat firmly back on head, it was high time I started going out again. Last night I went to a Mexican restaurant,...
Didn’t someone write a self-help book about chicken soup? Something about nourishing the soul and restoring us to emotional health… or I might just be making that up. In any...
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Hi, I’m Vicky! Food writer and certified wine geek. Amsterdammer and digital nomad. British by birth and Dutch by choice.
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