Author: |Posted: 6:03 pm on 26/03/09
Category: Food on TV
With Easter just around the corner, millions of Britons are tucking into mountains of industrially produced chocolate that is high in sugar and fat – but chocolate enthusiast, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, is back to show everyone that when it comes to chocolate, we definitely deserve better. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:54 am on 26/03/09
Category: Playing with Your Food
When he wasn’t torturing Christians and poisoning his family, Nero liked to indulge in raucous feasts with erotic overtones. Inspired by Heston’s Feasts, 4Food spent a day in life of the greedy tyrant to see how he would get on, eating in the 21st century. read more
Author: |Posted: 12:24 pm on 20/03/09
Category: My Life in Food
Sam Avery, comedian and former guest editor of 4Laughs, is a wannabe rock star and budding gourmet. With Mother’s Day on the way, Sam reminisces about a previous experience… read more
Author: |Posted: 5:58 pm on 17/03/09
Category: Food on TV
In his Tudor Feast we see Heston creating otherworldly beasts and employing pyrotechnics in an attempt to entertain and amaze another group of celebrity guests. Get the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes on Heston’s Tudor Feast read more
Author: |Posted: 5:56 pm on 17/03/09
Category: Playing with Your Food
Experimenting with cookery and exotic ingredients put Tudor England at the heart of the culinary world. 4Food spent a day in life of the wife-swapping monarch, Henry VIII, to see how he would enjoy a taste of 21st century cuisine read more
Author: |Posted: 5:43 pm on 17/03/09
Category: Food on TV, Playing with Your Food
Butterbeer, as Heston Blumenthal points out in his Tudor Feast, is not just Harry Potter’s favourite tipple, it’s also a bona fide Tudor recipe made from ale, sugar, egg yolks, nutmeg and butter. If you’ve always thought that beer is good but could benefit from a few more calories, then this is the drink for you. read more
Author: |Posted: 3:37 pm on 12/03/09
Category: Playing with Your Food
There’s an unjust hierarchy in the food and drink world: Bovril lords it up in both the condiment and beverage camps while Marmite remains forever just a spread. How so? Who by? And why? Shouldn’t salsa have a shot at being soup? What if Tabasco makes a tip-top toddy? 4Food starts a kitchen revolution and delves into the pantry to liberate the condiments. read more
Author: |Posted: 1:35 pm on 12/03/09
Category: Food on TV
In Heston’s Feasts we see the chef extraordinaire employing gastronomic trickery to entertain and thrill celebrity guests. Here he gives us the goss on what really went on behind the camera of the Medieval episode read more
Author: |Posted: 5:41 pm on 11/03/09
Category: Playing with Your Food
A good cup of tea is a fundamental British right, but how much do you care about the brand of cup you sup? 4Food put Britain’s teas to the blind taste test to see which brew steamed ahead.
Author: |Posted: 5:53 pm on 10/03/09
Category: Food on TV, Playing with Your Food
Not content to fiddle with the food, Heston got creative with the cutlery and transformed his tableware into a medieval feast. At the risk of biting off more than we could chew, 4Food went a-smelting to see if we could rustle up a chocolate spoon.
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