Category: Recommendations

Indian Feast

Lucky me, Kevin brought me this cookbook from London. He’s been eating at the Cinnamon Kitchen and liked it so much he bought the book. In my twenties I travelled to India several times and cooked a lot of Indian food but at one point I…

Paddington & Lina Bo Bardi

Yet another new drink we tried over the holidays, the Paddington. I organised and attended a mixing workshop for the place I work this december, now I’m mixing a lot of new drinks I never had before. I have to admit it like my cocktails…

The family cook book

We have Exiting news: Coeur de Sel is featured in a new cookbook. The book is called “Das grosse Familien Kochbuch” by Julia Hofer (AT Verlag). I like the book’s approach: modern families (with working parents) are busy and cooking a decent maybe even healthy…

Lokumlar or turkish delight

If you go to Istanbul or Turkey in general this is the thing you have to eat and bring home! We been told to buy it at Keseklers shop outside the spicemarket. They are supposed to do the best. Don’t buy the little square ones…

The New Yorker Food Issue

A recommendation for this weekend: The New Yorker Food Issue. With the cold weather outside I suggest staying in all weekend reading the brilliant  New Yorker Food Issue. If you can’t find the paper issue I strongly recommend reading this brilliant article “Toques from Underground…

Granola from Sooishi

I was well surprised when I came home from Paris and found a big parcel from sooishi on my desk. In it were the new sooishi granola. To me finding a granola I like has so far been an almost impossible task. Hard to say…

Marché des enfants rouges

This is the first time I’ll blog about restaurants or shops here but I try to get rid of one too many blog and this would mean recommendations for restaurants and such would have to find a new home here. Probably not the worst idea.…

Gather magazin

Yesterday my copy of GATHER has arrived and it’s as beautiful as I hoped it would be. Stunning food photography, interesting reads and recipes that sound rather interesting. I will have to wait to try the shaved asparagus salad with poached egg till next spring…

What’s cooking: The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit

We left our favorite cook book shop – “Books for cooks” with this little gem. A “thesaurus” of different flavour combinations. Former marketing executive Niki Segnit has taken 99 flavours (from potato and cucumber to black pudding and washed-rind cheese) and grouped them into hundreds…