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Edible Immigration Tales

By rkhooks • Apr 1st, 2010 • Category: Biscuits, Bread, Dessert, Drinks, Food, Food events, Going out, Lately Khooked, Other, Savoury, culinary events

Once upon a time there were two Brit girls who met in Paris over muffin making at an adorable cookbook store. They soon found out that they had many things in common: a pâtisserie diplome from Le Cordon Bleu, the love for food and lots of fun.
They had many adventures in Paris and beyond. But [...]



Behind the scenes of Edible immigration tales

By rkhooks • Mar 27th, 2010 • Category: Bread, Dessert, Drinks, Fish, Food, Food blogs, Food events, Going out, Other, Savoury

The journey began with a Eurostar train from Paris to London followed by a 12 hour flight from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur where I had to strip off all my winter layers (tights, jumpers, jacket, scarf, gloves, woolly socks…) as Malaysian heat is like being in an enormous Sauna. Enough time [...]



Tearing down the wall in Berlin

By rkhooks • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Biscuits, Bread, Cake, Drinks, Food, Food events, Going out, Music, Other, Savoury, culinary events, snack

There were no sausages on this menu which explored the East/West divide in Germany. Fellow foodie Caroline Hobkinson and I got cooking in her amazing Berlin kitchen. Dishing up two different menus (one East, one West). Each representing their relevant culinary history. Guests on arrival were assigned their sides for the nights. They bartered, they [...]



Good design at the School of Life

By rkhooks • Jun 28th, 2009 • Category: Biscuits, Food events, Going out, Other, culinary events, london, snack

500 biscuits to make for The School of life Sunday sermon on Good Design held by Alice Rawsthorn, Design critic for the International Herald Tribune . They weren’t just any old biscuits which had everyone at the Conway Hall, London on the 28th June 2009 munching.

Specially designed “digestives” or better “designtives” were mixed, kneaded, rolled [...]



Honey bites

By rkhooks • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Cake, Lead story, Other

Well I hope your Honey doesn’t . I whisked these up for a little teatime snack. They go great with a hot cup of a tea or a cold glass of milk. With the cold weather at the moment I have the tendency of snuggling under my duvet with a big cup of [...]