A message Dalia from Gaza finally got back in touch with me after a long absence - her phone battery exploded during the evacuation. While I am in my lovely home cooking organic food, making "placki" to use up all the excess mushrooms in my fridge;...
A healthy snack recipe I’m at a stage in my life where I’ve become acutely aware of the food pitfalls we can all too easily fall into as a family and I finally have the motivation to fix them. These buckwheat blondies are a small part...
I have fallen in love with Lublin. This city feels like I imagine Poland did before the last World War, when the soul of the country was fractured. It always makes me sad to think how much culturally richer, healthier and more robust Poland would...
I've been trying to decide which recipes to share with you from the KinoVino-Kinoteka supper club I did a couple of weeks ago. Guests asked if all the recipes were in the book, and while some are, some were developed especially for the occasion. I...
As you may or may not have noticed my routine has gone out of the window recently. Flown away to another time and place, one where I didn't have a full time (if freelance) job and wasn't working nights and weekends on another creative project...
There is a Russian saying that "life begins and ends with a blini", which shows the true value of these mini pancakes in that part of the world. I'm not trying to suggest that blinis are given to babies in Russia, I expect that the...