Dear readers, I hope you will enjoy this month’s favourites list. It’s a bit shorter than my other efforts, owing to being rather busy at work this month. But this list is still as heartfelt as ever, and I hope you will find something you enjoy in these selections.
Food articles
The best new restaurants and pop ups in March: https://www.stylist.co.uk/food-drink/new-restaurants-pop-ups-menu-launches/782982
The world’s best breads – how many have you tried, and what have they left out? https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/world-50-best-breads
For International Women's Day: 40 top UK female chefs - profiles and interviews. https://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/interviews-and-profiles/the-best-female-chefs-in-london_8413
If you are observing Ramadan, long days of fasting are tough. Here are some ideas on what to eat during Ramadan to make life easier. https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/06/best-foods-eat-ramadan-suhoor-iftar-revealed-20404012
Food and travel
What breakfast looks like around the world: https://www.afar.com/magazine/this-is-what-breakfast-looks-like-around-the-world
Best restaurants in Paris: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-restaurants-paris
Pizza around the world: https://www.tastingtable.com/1495658/types-of-pizza-around-the-world/
Kitchen know how and cooking tips
If you made a dish and overdid the chillis, here’s Nik Sharma on how to fix a dish that’s too hot: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-fix-a-dish-thats-too-spicy-article
Here is the same article archived in case the original link becomes inactive: https://archive.md/miRHH
Sharpening your kitchen knives is a proper grown up skill for the home cook: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-sharpen-kitchen-knives
I bought a big tub of Engevita, then didn’t know what to do with it. I found this article collecting up some ideas: https://www.self.com/gallery/nutritional-yeast-recipes
https://montrealgazette.com/life/food/recipes/six-oclock-solution-succotash
TV
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Bilbao and St Sebastian
If you love food and travel, you might enjoy this... Joe Lycett and James Acaster do Bilbao and St Sebastian. Joe is the fab new host of Travel Man. Watch the boys do a food tour of the Pintxos bars of St Sebastian, where they visit Bar Martinez for very traditional pintxos, Kapadocia for contemporary with the warm egg recommended by their guide and Ajari for contemporary pintxos with the caramelised French toast with ice cream recommended by their guide. Personally, I'd recommend Bar Mendaur for "cheffy" and contemporary Pintxos. And La Chuchara de San Telmo for made to order Basque style small plates. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/travel-man-48-hours-in/on-demand/69150-001
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival: Young Fathers
Edinburgh’s Young Fathers are a progressive hip hop group fusing rap, soul, and electronic music with a punk edge. Playing in Manchester, backed by the Hulme and Moss Side based NIA community choir, this is loud, proud, and unashamedly radical stuff. You can watch their set on iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds. Both are superb, don’t miss it!
Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0h4f7xp/6-music-festival-2024-young-fathers
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival: The Smile
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood continue their side project with Tom Skinner on drums. For the tour of their second album they have help from a brass instrument musician whose name I haven’t been able to look up (which is a shame as he deserves credit for his musicianship), and for this show in particular the London Contemporary Orchestra supports a number of the songs. These combine the sounds you’d expect from two members of Radiohead, but also deliver some jazzy and “far out” proggy surprises. As with the above, you can watch their set on iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds.
Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0h4f9hs/6-music-festival-2024-the-smile
Please note: as with every monthly Favourites List, all of these items have been selected by me simply because I love them. I do not receive any money, benefits in kind or other incentive for posting these links or recommendations
