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Posts from the ‘Culinary Life’ Category

110.5.24The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

510.4.24Remembering Rogg’s Delicatessen

29.27.24Down A Well In Spitalfields

38.22.24At The Halal Restaurant

98.20.24Cat Women

36.11.24George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller

86.6.24David Johnson’s Cafes

74.13.24At Oitij-jo Kitchen

53.27.24Good Friday At St Bartholmew’s

23.7.24At The Jewish Soup Kitchen

62.3.24Pellicci’s Celebrity Album

71.31.24At Beppe’s Cafe

71.10.24Oranges & Lemons Wrappers

21.7.24At The Ceremony Of The Baddeley Cake

912.30.23Night At The Beigel Bakery

212.23.23At Pellicci’s Christmas Party

512.19.23Christmas Ravioli At E Pellicci

212.16.23The New Christmas Dinner Song

612.15.23The Smithfield Christmas Eve Meat Auction

212.3.23At The Boar’s Head Parade

1212.1.23George Fuest, Baker

011.11.23The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

410.17.23The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

510.8.23Marion Elliot’s Tea Towels

910.1.23Eleanor Crow’s Everyday

35.2.23William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker

24.6.23Hot Cross Buns At St Bartholomew The Great

103.30.23Eleanor Crow’s East End Fish Shops

143.9.23Eleanor Crow’s East End Cafes

162.23.23At Paul Rothe & Son, Delicatessen

31.12.23A Brief History Of Street Food Sellers

121.10.23Keren McConnell’s Orange Wrappers

1112.24.22At Pellicci’s Christmas Party

312.23.22Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli

112.1.22The Curry Chefs Of Brick Lane

211.13.22The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

711.3.22Save Simpsons Chop House!

910.28.22Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers

410.9.22The Harvest Festival Of The Sea

210.4.22At The Regis Snack Bar

88.23.22At Embassy Electrical Supplies

38.8.22A Stranger’s Guide To London

127.23.22David Johnson’s Cafes

57.19.22George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller

75.15.22Harry Thomas, Baker & Musician

55.11.22At Fishmongers’ Hall

65.9.22Mortlake Jugs

54.20.22The Invigilators Of Spitalfields

144.2.22Three Antiques Market Treasures

73.10.22At The Halal Restaurant

113.2.22At Rinkoff’s Bakery

32.28.22At Taj Stores

181.24.22At Hungry Tummy

712.17.21The Dinners Of Old London

612.6.21Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli

312.5.21George Cruikshank’s Festive Season

912.1.21The Return Of Sail Cargo To The Thames

611.22.21The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

711.18.21Maria Pellicci, Meatball Queen Of Bethnal Green

1310.21.21In The Orchards Of Kent

510.16.21The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

710.12.21At David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants

68.4.21At Embassy Electrical Supplies

106.19.21Tea With David Bowie

96.12.21The Pellicci Museum

54.23.21The Curry Chefs of Brick Lane

44.20.21Down A Well In Spitalfields

154.18.21Bethnal Green Mulberry Campaign News

204.16.21Barry Rogg Of Rogg’s Delicatessen

43.28.21How To Make A Chapati

103.17.21Philip Marriage’s Date Box Labels

203.16.21Keren McConnell’s Fruit Wrappers

83.8.21The Bakers Of Widegate Street

63.6.21Thomas Newington’s Recipes

1312.19.20So Long, Mama Irene

412.9.20Jagir Kaur’s Recipes

610.31.20The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

610.1.20William Oglethorpe, Bermondsey Cheese Maker

139.15.20Sarsparilla & Mineral Water Sellers

78.7.20At The Halal Restaurant

126.11.20Beigels Already

305.3.20At The Solidarity Britannia Food Bank

211.21.20Spitalfields Market In The Eighties

221.14.20So Long, Peter Sargent

1212.30.19Night At The Beigel Bakery

812.22.19Last Brew At Syd’s Coffee Stall

1612.21.19So Long, Syd’s Coffee Stall

1212.20.19Baking Speculaas At E5 Bakehouse

1212.9.19Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli

611.25.19The Curry Chefs Of Brick Lane

2411.21.19Pomegranates At Leila’s Shop

811.18.19At Simpsons Chop House

1310.13.19The Arrival Of The Gallant

610.6.19The Harvest Festival Of The Sea

69.29.19All Change At Barney’s Eels

99.12.19At Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eels Stall

28.18.19Eleanor Crow’s Cafes

48.12.19Eleanor Crow’s Bakers’ Shops

85.15.19The Soup Kitchens Of Spitalfields

54.18.19Hot Cross Buns At St Bartholomew The Great

82.19.19The Pellicci Museum

112.7.19Catching Up With Peta Bridle

52.2.19Boiling The Eels At Barneys Seafood

812.24.18The New Christmas Dinner Song

1212.23.18Jake Green’s Pie & Mash Shops

712.20.18Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers

2012.14.18Baking London’s Largest Gingerbread Man

611.28.18At The Boar’s Head Parade

1210.26.18The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

610.18.18How To Make Prashad

910.6.18How To Make A Chapati

109.22.18The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

49.12.18Angie Lewin & Emily Sutton’s Nature Table

128.30.18So Long, Nathans Pie & Eels

97.2.18William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker

225.27.18So Long, Nathan’s Pies & Eels

114.8.18Ninety-Nine Years At Syd’s Coffee Stall

164.3.18At Verdi’s

214.1.18Bow Food Bank Portraits

192.26.18Down A Well In Spitalfields

52.13.18Vinegar Valentines For Tradesmen

132.3.18The Englishman & The Eel

271.31.18The Reckoning With Crest Nicholson

71.17.18Lucinda Douglas-Menzies At Billingsgate Market

351.9.18So Long, Arthur Of Arthur’s Cafe

712.23.17Pelliccis’ Celebrity Album

412.9.17The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

1411.20.17Maria Pellicci, The Meatball Queen Of Bethnal Green

911.4.17So Long, Glenys Bristow

2411.3.17How To Eat A Pomegranate

119.21.17Eleanor Crow’s East End Fish Shops

69.8.17Terry Bloomfield, Fish Dealer & Photographer

108.24.17Lunch At Mama Thai

118.12.17At David Kira Ltd

58.2.17Roy Reed At Billingsgate Market

95.3.17Nevio Pellicci Goes To Market

144.23.17Ken Long, Greengrocer

54.13.17The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence

44.6.17The Return Of The Widow’s Buns

74.5.17At The Jewish Soup Kitchen In Brune St

44.3.17Fresh Fish For Passover In Stamford Hill

1712.25.16Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers

712.24.16Dinners Of Old London

811.25.16At Syd’s Coffee Stall

510.27.16The Fish Plaice

710.8.16The Fish Harvest Festival

129.27.16Thomas Newington’s Recipes

98.27.16William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker Of Bermondsey

67.24.16George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller

156.11.16A Nation Of Tea-Drinkers

215.1.16Spinach & Eggs From The City Farm

74.30.16Strange And Terrible News!

124.29.16Boiling Eels At Barney’s Seafood

74.13.16A Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

84.6.16This Is The Modern World

152.15.16Beigels Already

61.22.16Melis Marziano, Pizza Chef

201.17.16An Offer To Buy Norton Folgate

101.13.16The First Rhubarb Of The Season

101.5.16The Bakers In Widegate St

1612.31.15So Long, Pam Chawla (Mama Thai)

1412.30.15A Night At The Beigel Bakery

1112.29.15On The East End Milk Round At Christmas

1412.23.15At Smithfield On Christmas Eve

812.8.15Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli

312.2.15The Boar’s Head Parade

2211.12.15At Fishmongers’ Hall

1411.2.15William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker

1010.26.15Charles Jones, Photographer & Gardener

3910.22.15At Maison Dellys, Columbia Rd

310.21.15Charlie Caisey Of Billingsgate Market

1010.5.15At Queens Market

59.27.15At The Harvest Festival Of The Sea

59.18.15The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie

56.20.15At The Launch Of London Life

164.29.15Spiegelhalters Is Saved

84.1.15London’s Oldest Buns

63.31.15At The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence

173.26.15Last Days At K C Continental Stores

103.22.15Joe Lawrence, Traditional Butcher & Writer

312.28.15So Long, Baldacci’s Of Petticoat Lane

221.24.15The Cabbies’ Shelters Of Old London

161.14.15At Rinkoff’s Bakery

111.11.15Sarsaparilla & Mineral Water Sellers

51.8.15At The Cutting Of The Baddeley Cake

812.23.14At Pellicci’s Party

512.17.14At The Christmas Eve Meat Auction

1712.10.14Nevio Pellicci At New Spitalfields Market

1112.4.14At The Boar’s Head Parade

119.22.14Meatball Season In Bethnal Green

79.11.14Happy 75th Birthday Halal Restaurant!

79.7.14Picking Hops For Truman’s Beer

149.3.14The Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boys’ Club Final Reunion Dinner

106.9.14The Baldaccis of Petticoat Lane

135.29.14Justin Gellatly’s Doughnut Recipe

85.20.14Viscountess Boudica Goes Cornish

52.28.14Joan Brown, The First Woman In Smithfield

122.27.14David Hoffman At Smithfield Market

82.25.14Sarah Ainslie At Smithfield Market

132.20.14Mortlake Jugs

182.17.14Peter Sargent, Butcher

222.16.14At The Jewish Soup Kitchen

111.21.14Adam Dant’s Map Of The Coffee Houses

201.17.14Stuart Freedman’s Pie & Mash & Eels

312.23.13Christmas Meat Auction At Smithfield

1212.16.13Christmas Ravioli At E. Pellicci

1712.9.13Joan Brown, Secretary at Smithfield Market

2311.26.13So Long, Abdul Mukthadir

711.23.13Truman’s London Keeper 1880 Export Stout

2811.5.13Pomegranates At Leila’s Shop

211.2.13The Lahori Chefs Of Whitechapel

710.18.13The Return of Justin Piers Gellatly

1410.14.13Eleanor Crow’s East End Fish Shops

610.5.13Vegetable Bags from Leila’s Shop

339.14.13More Hop Picking Pictures

149.12.13First Brew at the New Truman’s Brewery

269.11.13Leo Giordani, K C Continental Stores

108.25.13Eleanor Crow’s East End Cafes

98.24.13At Embassy Electrical Supplies

107.18.13Barn The Spoon at Leila’s Cafe

67.2.13At The E5 Bakehouse

116.20.13The Return of Truman’s Yeast

426.13.13So Long, Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eel Stall

145.24.13In a Well in Spitalfields

94.26.13At Embassy Electrical Supplies

64.18.13In the Kitchen at Headway East

103.30.13Hot Cross Buns at St Bartholomew the Great

423.27.13So Long, Sweet & Spicy

83.21.13At Chez Elles Bistroquet

113.19.13Eleanor Crow’s East End Bakers

93.8.13Last Night at St John Bakery

83.5.13The Modern Cries of London

102.12.13Michaela Cucchi, Trader in Fruit & Veg

31.30.13Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part 7)

31.23.13Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part 6)

111.10.13At The Lahore One Kebab Restaurant

21.2.13Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part 5)

312.27.12At Pellicci’s Christmas Party

1212.25.12At the Smithfield Christmas Eve Auction

512.22.12Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part 4)

812.14.12Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part 3)

2612.13.12Eleanor Crow’s East End Cafes

312.6.12Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits (Part Two)

511.29.12Colin O’Brien’s Pellicci Portraits

1311.11.12The Dinners of Old London

111.7.12Lillie O’Brien & The London Borough of Jam

1210.22.12So Long, Philip Christou

710.19.12Tif Hunter on Maltby St

69.18.12At Gaby’s Deli

279.10.12John Claridge’s Cafe Society

89.7.12Lorraine & Owen Bartlett Lashley, Farmers

69.1.12The Last Fish Porters of Billingsgate Market

48.25.12Boundary Estate Cooking Portraits

137.17.12The Chicken Shops of Spitalfields

147.13.12Lillie O’Brien’s Quest For Loganberry Jam

57.11.12The Return Of Joan Rose

76.14.12At Sweet & Spicy

35.14.12Tif Hunter’s Maltby St Portraits (Part Two)

34.30.12Colin O’Brien at E.Pellicci

144.24.12Strange & Terrible News From Spittle-Fields

94.17.12At Dino’s Cafe

84.7.12The Historic Cakes of Spitalfields

113.23.12Philip Lindsey Clark’s Sculptures in Widegate St

73.16.12A Bun Moment at the St John Hotel

253.14.12At the Halal Restaurant

163.9.12Charles Jones, Gardener & Photographer

183.8.12Jocasta Innes, Writer, Cook & Paint Specialist

143.2.12Five Hundred Eccles Cakes

22.17.12Meet the Curry Chefs of Brick Lane

112.12.12Tif Hunter’s Maltby St Portraits

92.4.12The London Borough of Jam

51.22.12Gina’s Restaurant Portraits

612.29.11More Curry Chefs of Brick Lane

412.14.1114th December, Christmas Pudding

312.14.11At The “What Pub Next ?” Club

212.4.114th December, the Boar’s Head

1312.2.11Charlie Caisey, Fishmonger

1011.22.11Alex Guarneri, Cheesemonger

411.17.11At Paul’s Tea Stall

211.8.11The Young Turks at The Ten Bells

510.18.11At the Regis Snack Bar, Leadenhall Market

610.10.11Glenys Bristow in Spitalfields

1010.9.11At the Fish Harvest Festival

119.23.11At Gina’s Restaurant

89.15.11Leila’s Shop Report 5

19.4.11Fergus Henderson, Bookworm

29.2.11The Curry Chefs of Brick Lane

88.15.11At Sweetings

98.6.11At Simpsons Chop House

108.4.11At H. Forman & Son, Salmon Smokers

228.3.11So long, Dino’s Restaurant & Grill

177.27.11At Mister City Sandwich Bar

127.26.11Boundary Estate Cooking Portraits

57.6.11Leila’s Shop Report 4

46.16.11At the Fish Plaice

86.14.11Favourite Pie & Mash Shops (Part Two)

46.11.11On the Thames with Crayfish Bob

255.20.11At Arthur’s Cafe

75.13.11Leila’s Shop Report 3

115.7.11Boiling the Eels at Barney’s Seafood

74.23.11The Widow’s Buns at Bow

44.13.11Leila’s Shop Report 2

393.31.11Favourite Pie & Mash Shops (Part One)

103.30.11The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

43.17.11Pellicci’s Collection

113.16.11Leila’s Shop Report

93.10.11David Eyre, Chef

03.3.11Trevor Chelsea, Smithfield Butcher

183.2.11At the City Corner Cafe

173.1.11A Lesson in Tripe

52.25.11Tom Disson, Fishmonger

2312.31.10Night at the Brick Lane Beigel Bakery

212.27.10Mama Irene, Chef

1012.3.10The Curry Chefs of Brick Lane

311.29.10Albert Hafize, Fish Merchant

811.9.10Ivor Robins, Fruit & Vegetable Purveyor

2111.4.10Abdul Mukthadir, Waiter

810.21.10Maria Pellicci, the Meatball Queen of Bethnal Green

579.23.10Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eel Stall, Aldgate

118.25.10Blackberry season in the East End

38.12.10Fergus Henderson, bookworm

288.9.10At The Grapes in Limehouse

78.4.10Bengali lunch

186.30.10Mama Thai, The Noodles Of Spitalfields

06.18.10James Lowe, St John Bread & Wine

05.15.10Mohammed Tayyab, restauranteur

265.12.10Syd's Coffee Stall, Shoreditch High Street

74.26.10A Night in the Bakery at St John

54.16.10The Coriander Club, Lutfun Hussain

84.7.10Spinach & Eggs from Spitalfields City Farm

113.29.10Hot Cross Buns from St John

33.27.10Dino's Grill & Restaurant

53.5.10Pelliccis' celebrity album

102.13.10Maria Pellicci, cook

122.4.10Rochelle Cole, Poulterer

101.29.10Harvey Cabaniss, Verde & Co

161.22.10The Return of Joan Rose

151.20.10So Long, Rossi’s Cafe

1512.21.09How Raymond’s shop became Leila’s shop

1012.11.09Mr Sammy's beigel shop in Brick Lane

312.2.09St John, the first mince pies of the season

211.26.09Artists' canteen at the Rochelle School

311.23.09The politics of porridge

211.19.09Justin Piers Gellatly, baker and pastry chef

311.17.09The worshipful company of butchers

111.7.09Baked apples

110.20.09St John, Go Nuts for Doughnuts!

110.12.09Franze & Evans, the divine Teresa

010.7.09St John, the Tart with the Heart of Custard

09.24.09Onions from Leila’s Shop

29.17.09Whitechapel Market, the plums are here

19.2.09Taj Stores, Ramadan Mubarak

28.28.09St John, the Daily Loaf