This week I have been

Reading

The 2011 Tour de France race guide.

Watching

An Idiot Abroad

Listening to

The xx

Discovering

(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.

Eating

  • An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
  • A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
  • A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
  • Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
  • Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
  • An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.

Links

Top Chef Masters – Kelly eats!

By injera, on September 12th, 2009%

I’m behind with Top Chef Masters, and I’m still behind with Hell’s Kitchen, too. This afternoon enabled me to catch up on episode five of TCM and the recap of that is posted over at Reality Ravings.

The Springboks are playing the All Blacks as I type this, so I will soon be losing the television to a delayed replay of the game. That puts paid to the plan of catching up today…

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Top Chef Masters – Heat Two

By injera, on August 15th, 2009%

Again, only a smidge of Tom Colicchio in this episode and no Gail, but we got Wylie Dufresne, a great Lost crossover (Dharma Initiative jumpsuits!  Food in tins!), a bright red hat and the phrase “avant garde pastry chef”.

Full recap over at Reality Ravings…

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Top Chef Masters – episode one

By injera, on August 8th, 2009%

Arena is screening the Top Chef Masters at the moment and I’m blogging it over at Reality Ravings.

The premise of this version of the Top Chef format is that 24 “celebrated” chefs will battle it out in various heats with the winners of each heat vying for the Top Chef crown and the associated $100,000 donation to their choice of charity. In the first episode, the chefs face the challenge of making sweets for kids and turning out a three-course dinner with… limited facilities.

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