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Food For Thought

22.12.2011   Richard Johnson
Faith Popcorn wants to know everything about you – and I mean e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. From the vermouth in your martini to the groceries in your refrigerator. The world’s…

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Waste Not, Want Not

17.11.2011   Richard Johnson
This Friday, London's street food sellers take on a challenge of Biblical proportions. They are feeding the 5,000 -- in Trafalgar Square. And they're hoping Nigella will…

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The Latest On The Street...

05.12.2010   Richard Johnson
The lovely Simon Parkes came down to Brent Cross to see what the British Street Food Awards market was all about. Have a listen here on BBC…

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Sunday Times magazine Gets...

25.01.2010   Richard Johnson
I will always remember Marco Pierre White in the lobby of the Soho Grand, signing for breakfast. He put it on Room 320 – the only problem was that…

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The Word is on the Street

01.01.2010   Richard Johnson
2009 was truly memorable – for many reasons. It was the year I discovered that 1) all Mexican food is the same – it’s just folded in…

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“Nobody can go back and...

05.11.2009   Richard Johnson
Antony Worrall Thompson has just sent me this article. He wrote it for the Express, a few years ago, when he was -- understandably -- down on the whole…

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Is This Coffee ?

30.10.2009   Richard Johnson
I don’t know if it was the coffee beans (Tanzanian Peaberry and Sumatran Mandeling), the hand grinder, the personal cafetiere or the trioxane pocket stove in her handbag that…

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Middle England Is Listening

30.10.2009   Richard Johnson
Okay this is getting really exciting. Aside from all the 'trade' attention the Awards have been getting (and I'll blog about it soon), the rest of the world is…

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Bloody Journalists

17.10.2009   Richard Johnson
Pardon my French. But journalists do like to stir. And the journalists on the Islington Gazette are no different. According to one of their recent stories, everyone was…

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Marco Pierre White At The...

16.10.2009   Richard Johnson
After the launch, Marco and I went to his new-ish place at Stamford Bridge to talk about the judging process. It wasn't a posh lunch. All we ate was…

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British Street Food Awards...

28.09.2009   Richard Johnson
September 2009 saw the launch of the British Street Food Awards at Whitecross Street Market in London. It was one heck of a job getting the banner…

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