Monthly Archives: December 2010

A very merry Christmas

Posted on December 27, 2010 by

This Christmas was a year for new traditions chez Shared Table. Not in our home town, in a beautiful borrowed house, with some absent and some new family, this Christmas marked a transition in what we eat to celebrate the … Continue reading →

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Stuff I Like: underground supper clubs

Posted on December 25, 2010 by

This is such a neat idea – underground restaurants run in your front room. Check out The English Can Cook.

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Stuff I Like: Progressive Dinner Party

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

Zoe at Progressive Dinner Party kindly let me contribute to her awesome blog and thus became the pusher of my gateway drug. Obvs I’m now a crack addict for blogging.  On ProgDin I wrote about avoiding tourist traps in London, … Continue reading →

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Stuff I Like: new Elizabeth David

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

Previously I started the “Stuff I like” page to record interesting articles and favourite sites, but I don’t think that format’s working very well. So, I’ve decided to incorporate these bon mots and random references into the main body of … Continue reading →

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The curious world of Turkish beverages

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

The Turks have a number of unusual and curious national drinks. There’s boza, a slightly alcoholic fermented millet drink; yes that certainly sounds just the thing to scull on a Saturday night out on the turps. There’s also salgam, turnip … Continue reading →

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Cay: the Turkish national drink

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

Turkish coffee brings to mind such a headily evocative image: two mouthfuls of sweet caffeine and inch-thick sludge at the bottom of a tiny cup. But it’s cay, tea, that’s far and away Turkey’s national drink and no less poetically … Continue reading →

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Soup for breakfast?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

One of the interesting things about travelling is discovering the huge variation in breakfast cultures. To exaggerate just a bit, while dinner around the world tends to be some combination of savoury carbohydrates and proteins, breakfast is really culturally specific. … Continue reading →

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