expert guides Archives - Saucy Dressings

Liquorice specialist Ilse Boege of Kado in Berlin

Congratulations to Kadó, celebrating twenty years of specialist liquorice sales today!

The last stop on the European gastronomic tour this summer was Berlin. There were all kinds of envisaged treats there of course….and then there was one very une...

Exmoor Blue Cheese

When I was staying at The Secret Holt last year I picked up a 500g ‘baby’ sized Exmoor Blue cheese at the local farmshop. Even though part of Exmoor itself is i...

Lunch with Matej in Nataša Tomažič, chef-patron of Majerija in Slovenia

On my recent trip to Slovenia I was lucky enough to visit a wonderful restaurant, Majerija, deep in the Slovenian countryside and interview the chef-patron the...

The Best Avocado Knife

The best avocado knife is hard to find. Why?New knife, still in its packagingFirst of all because I have never actually found one helpfully labelled ‘a...

Chloé Morris tells us how she came to set up Edible Stories – an extraordinary event company which harnesses all the senses of its guests

I first found out about the incredible Edible Stories offering after I’d been to the Food Hacking workshop hosted by Professor Charles Spence at Cambridge Unive...

Could Graham Tweed’s kettles be the best and most beautiful in the world?

Graham Tweed is a British entrepreneur who has run manufacturing businesses in metal works for over 35 years. From housewares to hinges, his love of sculpting ...

New saucepans – the miraculous French Ingenio set

It’s not often I really wax lyrical when it comes to kitchen equipment (alright, the prep-a-lot and the silicone saucepan lid are exceptions to this). Mostly it...

Tom Stephens on Wobblegate Cider

I knew I’d be in the Brighton area for a day or two, and so I began researching to see what sort of foodie delights there might be to explore while I was there....

Prickly pears – how to eat them, what to do with them

Prickly pears are also known as Indian figs or nopales, and their scientific name is Opuntia ficus-indica. The plant is a cactus originating from central Americ...

16 foodie discoveries for visitors to Sardinia

From a foodie’s point of view Sardinia is an island of the marvellous and the unexpected. There is the exotic, for example, the simultaneously sweet and bitter ...