Genuine friendship and generosity was the hallmark of my baking Blind tour (). It made all the difference right from the very start when, by complete chance, I met Ben and Blanche over dinner in San Francisco. They were fellow…
Top chef Luis turned under-cooked rice and grass from the coast of China in to an amazing fine dining experience (). You will be as staggered as I by the amount of time (potentially three days), the attention to detail…
Imagine the challenge of cooking alongside a Michelin-level chef making eclectic Chinese cuisine from authentic ingredients in an ultra-high-tech kitchen – without any sight at all (). Then double the anxiety and stress because everything is being captured on video…
San Francisco was my starting point for the Baking blind world tour: a city full of life and history with a great reputation for good food . Also home to the LightHouse organisation that awarded me the Holman prize for…
The smell of my own sheets, the touch of the familiar steps , taste of home-cooking and the sound of my turtle doves cooing – I’m home at last after over five months in French hospitals. There’s a short video…
The smell of my own sheets, the touch of the familiar steps , taste of home-cooking and the sound of my turtle doves cooing – I’m home at last after over five months in French hospitals. There’s a short video…
Over 3 months since nearly dying in a car accident, I’m just about back on my feet I think that they reckon one loses about 2% muscle mass for every week in bed so you can imagine that I’m…
Over 3 months since nearly dying in a car accident, I’m just about back on my feet. I think that they reckon one loses about 2% muscle mass for every week in bed so you can imagine that I’m now…
See Toby’s creative process https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=jyJcGAwAIsA and hear his thanks for the truly inspirational trip to China that resulted in his excellent new artworks and the success of his inaugural exhibition. The Holman prize has reached further than could have been…
Fabulous illustrations by Baking Blind videographer, nephew Toby, are extra benefits of our culinary world tour – all made possible by the San Francisco LightHouse organisation. Toby (and I) found the pace and innovation of development in Chongqing in China…
