
The Bakers Blessing by Peter Reinhart
Baking bread used to be something I did but never really understood. After being tutored by Richard Bertinett at his Kitchen on how to make the perfect dough enabled me…

Baking bread used to be something I did but never really understood. After being tutored by Richard Bertinett at his Kitchen on how to make the perfect dough enabled me…

Espuma is the Spanish word for foam or froth and is the descriptive word for a technique developed by Ferran Adrià.
A culinary foam consists of natural flavours such as…

What is Agar agar?
Agar agar is a mixture of several different carbohydrates extracted from seaweed where as gelatine is a substance produced from animal protein.
The unusual and complex…

Following a conversation with Trish, a regular reader and user of the British Larder, about my usage of gelatine, I was prompted to write a page on the origins and…