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Jamon on the bone in Soho

by Ed

I‘m spending two hours a day in the Apple lecture theatre accessing the fast broadband network as we are still wind-up internet at home. It’s a stones throw from my old work stamping ground of Soho, the tiny streets bordered by Regent and Wardour Streets. My big food find is Fernandez and Wells on Beak [...]

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Wagyu tasting offer for bloggers at Jamon Sushi

by Ed

Wagyu really is wonderful. It is also expensive and one of the most mistreated meats in Australia. Possibly the worst way to eat it is an a hunking great steak; possibly the best way is to prepare it with care in small quantities, even as sushi. Charles Greenfield, the owner and chef at Jamon Sushi [...]

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The Jamon challenge at $475 a kilo

by Ed

To the left are five slices of the jamón ibérico de bellota. They weighed 88 grams and cost a shocking $41.80.To the right are five much larger slices of San Daniele ham from Italy weighing 142 grams and costing $17.04.One sunny afternoon, before I joined Febfast, we sat on the front veranda surveying the 4 [...]

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Lunch most popular:Movida

by Ed

Spanish chef Frank Comorra is a laugh. When he sent me a copy of his sell out Movida cookbook he signed it as the CEO of Ikea. He’d read by blogpost where I’d complained Movida didn’t conform to the stereotypical Spanish restaurant and owed more to the Swedish superstore than dark oak, Pablo Picasso or [...]

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