To be confronted by a roaring demon of heat and flames in the work place is an unwelcome jolt. Radiant heat and weird shadows fill the...

With rivers frozen over, fruit and grains buried under snow and most edible animals vanished from the landscape - how in hell would you...

Approaching the row of hissing bench-top steamer ovens, I remembered what Lloyd the Sous Chef had said about opening them - be bloody...

I've worked in some sweat boxes - kitchens as moist and stinky as a wrestler's jock strap, but for true hard-core cooking action there...

Apprentices are generally young, hung-over and over-sexed. I should know. So over the years, working with these budding chefs of...

Amuse-bouche are complimentary bite-sized serves of finger food to amuse the mouth before starting on the menu. Here are some tasty...

It’s a new café in your manor; you feel like supporting it with your custom and you order something simple - a slice of ham and cheese...

It’s the biggest horse-race of the year and we’re cooking in a track-side marquee. Well-dressed, drunken men barge in and start cutting...

It didn’t get more mercenary than this. On the horizon - 3 billion dollars worth of marine hardware; behind me - a gargantuan industrial...

From beneath my feet, in the public bar below, came a sudden roar and shriek of voices, then floor-shaking bangs and the sound of...

While setting up the BBQ station on the restaurant’s deck, I had the feeling of being watched. Around me the visitors to the Crocodile...

Sal and his wife owned and ran a trendy inner-city cafe. All shiny surfaces and modern-as-heck furniture, it was the new kid on the...

Grimod de La Reynière was one of life’s true characters. With his artificial hands, culinary curiosity, great wit and ability to write,...

Darkness. Freezing cold. Warm bed and thick eiderdown. A minute passes. Another one. Peek at bedside clock. Shock! Horror! I’m going to...

“The greatest joy is to vanquish your enemies, chase them before you, rob them of their wealth, see those dear to them bathed in tears...

This is about what not to do. This is about rules, writ stark and clear; ancient rules handed down through the centuries and known to us...

When I started out, the restaurant industry drank from a stream of black money. Hospitality was, as the Japanese call it, a water trade...

Tampopo, a perfect movie morsel from 1985, is a uniquely Japanese take on food, cooking and eating. An endlessly inventive comedy, the...

I had a problem. The power was out, unlikely to be fixed for days, and I didn't just have a whole cold room full of food, but three...

Knives all have a handle and a blade, and at one end of the blade is the tip; at the other end is the heel. Unlike their hunting and...