Food boxes await delivery to locals who cannot get to shops
Elderlies and the vulnerable will receive the meals in a box at their doorstep – hand delivered by the restaurant’s team – minimising human contact.
How to receive the food: The chef’s local parish church St Peters in Eaton Square is organising the deliveries in London SW1.
Chefs in Britain are paying closer attention to their peers’ work on the other side of the world, since Restaurant magazine launched its ‘Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant awards’ this year.
The inaugural awards highlighted the high standards being set across the continent.
British chef Tom Kerridge, of the Hand and Flowers in Marlow, recently tweeted that André Chaing of Restaurant André, Singapore is “one of the best chefs cooking on Planet Earth”.
Chaing’s work in a converted 19th-century house in Chinatown is defined by his “octaphilosophy”, the eight components being unique, texture, memory, pure, terroir, salt, south and artisan. That translates as Mediterranean-influenced dishes such as foie gras jelly with olive oil, fleur de sel and black truffle coulis. Continue reading
Where Chefs Eat is a new book published by Phaidon in January 2012 (Buy it in the US). In it, over 400 of the world’s best kitchen creators divulge their favourites: where to pitch up for a late-night supper, the diners they wish they’d opened, where they would be prepared to travel. And wherever they end up, it is certain to divulge their own personal taste: even if it is for a little couscous joint or a motorway cafe or a tree-house with a Michelin-star. This is part one of the extract. Come back next week for Part two….. Continue reading
