I had an impromptu dinner gathering the other night. After a thoroughly unproductive Saturday, I was determined to salvage something of the day, and my way of usually doing that is to cook and see friends. So I got on the phone, put out the invites and hit Waitrose. I’d already decided on roast lamb […]

I’ve been hearing people in the food world talk about Pierre Koffmann’s famous pig’s trotters since I started writing about food. Ditto I’ve listened to chefs rhapsodise about Koffmann’s “immense” presence at his legendary La Tante Claire restaurant – whose famously difficult kitchen trained hoards of now Michelin-starred chefs in their own right – years […]

Today Edinburgh’s Michelin-starred, Scottish produce championing chef Tom Kitchin takes his place back in the kitchen with the legendary Pierre Koffmann at Selfridges fifth floor pop-up restaurant, as part of the London Restaurant Festival. Kitchin did his time in the kitchen of La Tante Claire back when he was  a young  up and coming chef […]

Hello all! And welcome to my new-look, solo blog – minus Jude. Fiftyfourfoodmiles is in the process of being put down (sob, but Jude is so busy on the frontline of journalism we thought it would be better if I carried on the glluttony single-handedly). This is still very much in the early stages, and […]