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Eating like a witch

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 2:21 pm on 28/10/09

Category: Playing with Your Food, Recipes and Cooking

Pumpkins might make pretty lanterns but no self-respecting ghoul would be sated by a squash. Hannah Williams dug deep into the cauldron to rustle up a fiendish feast wicked enough for a witch
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Feed the world… or the office for starters

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 5:19 pm on 16/10/09

Category: Playing with Your Food, Recipes and Cooking

In celebration of World Food Day, 4Food invoked the Harvest Festival vibe of old, catering the office lunch hour with the remnants of our collective cupboards
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Puddings like Mamma never made

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 1:44 pm on 13/08/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

As Vito Caffato sets sail on his mission to peddle British culinary classics to the incredulous Italians, I’ve developed a plan that’ll blow their pasta-loving socks off. Forget nuggets of gnocchi and forkfuls of fettuccine, let’s wow the grappa-guzzling gourmands with the glorious Yorkshire pud.

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Trifle pizza and other adventures

Author: Charlie - 4 Food Team|Posted: 5:03 pm on 11/08/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

As Vito Cataffo in Channel 4 show, Dolce Vito, attempts to sell Brit dishes to Italians, 4Food has a go at cooking up cultural harmony, recreating classic British dishes in pizza form… read more

 

Going Dutch in the chippy

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 4:09 pm on 17/07/09

Category: Playing with Your Food, Recipes and Cooking

Ever wondered what the French eat on their fries or the Canadians chow with their chips? Hannah Williams went on a hunt to discover the dirty and divine chip accompaniments served around the world.

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How to barbecue an egg

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 10:46 am on 19/06/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

Hannah Williams is bored of barbecues with their bland burgers and gristly grilled cheese. Hungry for more than a blackened banger, she threw down the grilling gauntlet to discover where the barbecue limits lay.

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Daddy or chips?

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 3:35 pm on 15/06/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

What’s the best way to tell your Dad you love him this Father’s Day? 4Food’s saying it with egg and chips but we want to see what you can do…

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Dressing to impress

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 4:48 pm on 30/04/09

Category: Playing with Your Food, Recipes and Cooking

Salad dressings have come a long way since the days of salad cream. Now you can get anything from lime and coriander to mustard and honey. But is there a limit to livening up lettuce? 4Food got creative in the cupboard and created exotic concoctions to perk up any picnic…

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Just the tonic

Author: Charlie - 4 Food Team|Posted: 6:46 pm on 24/04/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

Ever wondered what it would be like to be the lemon in your favourite tipple? No? Fair enough, but on a break from building sculptural desserts, jellymongers Bompas and Parr did. The result of their cocktails and dreams is Alcoholic Architecture – a walk-in gin and tonic with a super-retro 80s soundtrack. read more

 

A trio of dishes baked in a pie

Author: Hannah – 4Food Team|Posted: 1:40 pm on 22/04/09

Category: Playing with Your Food

Pies used to transport edible wares date back to the Egyptians, where honey and nuts were carted about in pastry cases. Nowadays you’re more likely to find your pie stuffed with a meaty concoction covered in liquor, but there’s no limit to pie filling possibilities – as 4Food discovered… read more

 

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