It is no secret, I love a good book. I love it even more when the book is celebrating locally produced food and the food heroes that produce it. Eat, Drink and be Straddie: Tales and Tastes from an Island in the Sun, does just that, but it goes that one step further by celebrating [...]
I am a huge fan of Anthony CapellaĀ and his fabulously charming foodie fables, The Food of Love, The Various Flavours of CoffeeĀ and The Empress of Ice Cream, all amongst my favourite foodie reads.Ā So when I read that he had just released a new book, I didnāt even bother reading the blurb as I [...]
I hate to say it, but I have never really been that much of a fan of Chinese cuisine - Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese yes, but Chinese falls in the ānot that inspiringā department for me.Ā I know that is not always true, but other than Peking duck, there is not a lot on a [...]
Coffee is a magical brew to many.Ā Made from the roasted beans of the coffee plant, coffee, and the various flavours of it, would appear to be inspiring enough for Anthony Capella to write an amorous account of just that, in a way that has had me rethinking my own coffee vices to a point [...]
There is something about food in literature that we seem to devour with as much gusto as what we would an actual meal. We digest descriptive passages with passion and ardour and we greedily consume every ingredient, every sugar coated phrase and heavenly scented scene, living, as it would seem, through our stomachs, even if [...]
