Posts Tagged ‘food’
Breaking Bread
Chardin and dough are on the menu as our resident food historian makes a welcome return
Read MoreArepa & Co, Oslo Hackney, food review: ‘I want to eat arepas and to hell with the bloat’
The Venezuelan restaurant chain impresses with its new residency
Read More‘Sad sign’: Hackney Foodbank in urgent donations plea as demand soars by 70 per cent
The number of children and over-65s needing the charity’s help has jumped drastically in the last year
Read More‘Makes me so angry’: Hackney author Dr Chris van Tulleken lifts lid on ultra-processed foods in bestselling book
‘Ultra-Processed People’ rejects weight-shaming and instead offers the reader power through knowledge
Read More‘Nothing more distracting than hunger’: Praise for Hackney School of Food as council launches £300k free meals plan
Town Hall unveils investment to combat child hunger, with an estimated 40 per cent of youngsters in Hackney living in poverty
Read MoreHackney’s market traders given rent relief during recent winter food shortage after council’s ‘nimble reaction’
Street trading manager says Town Hall acted fast to ensure shoppers could still buy foods such as tomatoes and cucumbers
Read MoreOren Deli, Broadway Market, food review: ‘Colour, flavour, and pounds of gorgeous bread’
The jump from deli to restaurant may be ‘a little premature’, but what’s on offer is dazzling
Read More‘We don’t have another 10 years’: Hackney cookery school goes global to accelerate shift towards planet-friendly eating
Made in Hackney launches free online platform that teaches people how to set up their own community kitchens
Read MoreCream of the crop
Our resident food historian explores our favourite icy treat, and the chefs and writers for whom it is an obsession
Read MoreHackney food charity raises £5k through sales of its ‘delicious’ plant-based burger
Made In Hackney has teamed up with Fuller’s brewery, which has sold 10,000 of the burgers in its pubs and hotels
Read More‘How to bring to life a totally unknown cook?’
Our resident food historian dips into author Vicky Hayward’s ‘brilliant’ revival of an 18th-century friar and his recipes
Read MoreThe Pies Have It
Our resident food historian on a British staple and its place in Victorian Christmas feasts
Read More‘Difficult to find staff’: Brexit and rising bills put paid to much-loved Greek deli in London Fields
The Isle of Olive was a popular fixture on Ada Street for more than a decade
Read MoreTemper Shoreditch, food review: ‘Dark, deep and dangerous’
The barbecue chain’s new branch is a ‘palace to paleo god Carnivora’
Read MoreHackney Foodbank in plea for support as residents speak out about cost-of-living crisis – including one mother who has stopped her son taking baths
Volunteers at the charity are ‘worried’, with food donations falling away despite demand doubling
Read More‘Money is tight’: Hackney Giving launches cost-of-living appeal to ensure ‘nobody is left behind’
The local charity hopes to give out £25k in grants to organisations helping residents through the crisis
Read MoreFlat Earth Pizza, Cambridge Heath, food review: ‘A temple of careful, conscious and creative eating’
The restaurant makes a triumphant return to permanent digs with some ‘fresh magic’
Read More‘It’s like I’m on The Apprentice’: Hackney students sell school-grown produce at Ridley Road Market for charity initiative
Pupils from across the borough took part in charity project Know Your Onions
Read MoreSupa Ya Ramen, Kingsland Road, food review: ‘Mouth-slurping goodness’
Luke Findlay’s permanent venue is a ‘winner’
Read More‘Terrifying but fun!’: Hackney chefs crowned UK student champions after live cook-off judged by Michel Roux Jr
Trio from New City College win Country Range Student Chef Challenge 2022
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