Luke Honey from the Greasy Spoon blog offers a re-appraisal of a quintessentially British condiment, and asks "powder or jar?" A little confession to you before I write this post: I'm already a fan of Colman's Mustard. Actually, I'm a massive, gi-normous, slavering obsessive. But then I'm also a paid-up supporter of the ... Read More...
In which Luke Honey of The Greasy Spoon revisits a West London institution redolent of the swinging sixties... Hands up who remembers The Gasworks? Twenty odd years ago, I started my glamorous career in the so-called Art World - as a porter at a well-known auctioneers to be found in the ... Read More...
Christmas may be long over, but we've got a humdinger of a turkey for you - in the shape of a strange film about Charles Dickens. Luke Honey investigates... In the advent of my late youth, I’ve developed an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens. I’ve devoured the ... Read More...
There was so much to admire about Fanny Cradock. And then it all went wrong... I can’t quite make up my mind about Fanny Cradock. I’m on the fence about this one. There are many things to admire: the innovative cookery programmes, the slick, ball-gowned cookery demonstrations presented to packed audiences ... Read More...
A real treat for us today as Luke Honey explores the little known link between super-macho action hero Harry Palmer and fancy gourmet cookery ... Colonel Ross: Champignons? You’re paying ten pence more for a fancy French label. If you want button mushrooms they’re better value on the next shelf. Harry ... Read More...
In the first of a small series, London-based dabbler Luke Honey, maître d' of The Greasy Spoon Blog, resurrects a venerable cookery magazine, complete with a retro recipe that has long since fallen out of favour... Not that long ago I managed to save a complete set of the 1968 Cordon Bleu ... Read More...
Christmas is but one week away, and where would a good dabbler be without a spot of wassailing. Before we set off wassailing incorrectly, we thought it prudent to consult Epicurean Luke Honey from The Greasy Spoon Blog to find out what wassailing actually is... Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves ... Read More...
Luke Honey, proprietor of The Greasy Spoon Blog, takes a grand tour to Venice, and one of the world's most famous bars... I'm not sure how many "Harry's Bars" there are in the world. Quite a few, I expect. There's that famous pub in Paris, there's the late Mark Birley's smart ... Read More...
Photograph: Local_man I like Hertfordshire. If you don't know England, this is an understated county of meagre size, found to the north of the London suburbs. Here the urban sprawl gives way to a rolling landscape: golden wheatfields, red-brick shuttered cottage ornées, church spires and tarred clapboard barns. Very Biedermeier. It ... Read More...
Kensington Gore: Luke Honey takes us on a trip around some London landmarks captured on film and uncovers some strange and groovy goings on down the King's Road... I first noticed him one Saturday morning; about a week or so after moving into my new house in Battersea: a man with ... Read More...