Food For Thought
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…
Waste Not, Want Not
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…
The Latest On The Street...
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…
Sunday Times magazine Gets...
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…
The Word is on the Street
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…
“Nobody can go back and...
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…
Is This Coffee ?
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…
Middle England Is Listening
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…
Bloody Journalists
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…
Marco Pierre White At The...
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…
British Street Food Awards...
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…







