The Camp Culinary Adventures of TV’s First Celebrity Chef

You can’t beat a bit of Fanny, especially in the kitchen. Overshadowed by modern day macho MasterChefs, Fanny Cradock paved the way as the first ever celebrity chef and remains one in a million, like a dish you can perfect just once and never recreate. Spicing up British TV from the mid-1950s-70s, folks tuned in…

When Moulded Meals Were Haute Cuisine

It’s hard to imagine anyone ever salivating over a quivering tower of jellied meat, but for centuries – that’s right, not just the seventies – it was the height of haute cuisine. A hundred and fifty years ago, if you were an ambitious chef out to knock the socks off your guests, the centerpiece of…

10 Easy Recipes you could probably make while Drunk

I say probably because I wouldn’t want to encourage being drunk in an environment surrounded by gas fires and kitchen knives. Nessy is not surprisingly, a pretty messy chef. And I hate cleaning up. Nessy also hates reading long recipes and always gets bored half way through. So here are my favorite recipes, so easy,…

10 Secret Tips for Foodies and Winos

1. Save an Unfinished Bottle of Wine for up to a Week Just for the record, I’ve never had this dilemna, but for those of you that are able to open a bottle of wine without finishing it, this is a pretty good tip. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrEMMZW1IMs&feature=player_embedded] 2. Make the cheese you serve at dinner parties look…

FOOD P*RN: The 20 Most Amazing Ice Cream Recipes

Welcome to another edition of MessyNessy’s Food P*rn. Since for most of us, the sun is out and we’re all in search of something a little more refreshing, I thought I’d zone in on ice cream. Recipes as usual, are attached– can you think of a better way to spend a hot weekend than making…

Meet the Italian Grandmothers Making the World’s Rarest Pasta

Pasta makes everything better. This we know. But in the ancient villages of Sardinia, where the art of handmade pasta is practically a sacred ritual, there are ancestral, mouth-watering secrets that even the finest fettuccine can’t hold a candle to. We’re talking about the most beautiful and intricate shapes you’ve never seen; braided, stretched, twisted…

You can now Rent Julia Child’s Provencale Kitchen as she Left It, via Airbnb

A copy of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, dog-eared, heavily scribbled in with my mother’s notes and covered with her gravy stains, will one day be passed on to me as a family heirloom. I didn’t know it then, but my childhood in Provence probably wouldn’t have tasted the same if it wasn’t for Julia…

The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy, France

The talented film-making duo behind Tiger in a Jar have struck again, this time they’re in France, filming the culinary workshop, The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy. It prompted me to find out a little bit more about the dreamy workshop, and if you’re looking to try out some authentic cook thrown in with a very…

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Lunch at the Forgotten Rothschild Party Palace

I stood looking up at the gates, hands on my hips, wondering what forgotten chateau I’d stumbled upon this time. We’d taken a detour to avoid the traffic back into Paris and suddenly pulled over into the ditch by the side of the road at my absolute insistence. What I didn’t know then, peeping through…

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Fancy Junk Food prepared by Chef Jacques La Merde

Introducing the esteemed Chef Jacques La Merde, he’s basically full of merde, sort of like all those pretentious foodists. So he has an instagram account where he plates junk food as if he were competing on Top Chef. It’s pretty hilarious … not to mention, strangely appetising?! “Pogos with Marble Cheeze slices, Honey Ham Rosettes, Spongebob Squarepants Zoodles…