British Street Food Awards 2012

A nice opportunity of a street food nature, ladies and gentlemen. Just heard word of spaces at Queens Crescent Market, Chalk Farm on Thursday 10th & Saturday 12th March 2011 and Swiss Cottage Market on Friday 11th March. The fee per stall is £120 a day, and includes a trestle table. Lower fees are available if you provide your own marquee, trestle table etc (but these must be in keeping with the colours and branding of the market). You must have public liability insurance and have attended Food Safety and Hygiene training. Contact Osita Udenson on udenson@btinternet.com for more information.

I always associate mushrooms with autumn – when the ground is deep with leaves, and the air is filled with the smell of bonfires. It’s the best time – just before nature descends into its Winter sleep. But the farmed varieties are available all year round. Which is just as well for the wonderful Sporeboys team on Broadway Market.

I love their mushroom sandwiches. But then mushrooms on toast would probably be my last meal on earth, so I’m a bit biased. (more…)

It was army scientists who first brought us dried egg, freeze-dried coffee and processed cheese. Well, they’ve gone and done it again. With everlasting bread. By lowering its acidity, and by chemically bonding its molecules to water, they have created a loaf (sic) that will stay fresh for up to three years at 26 °C. Our lives will never be the same again. (more…)