There’s a saying that something is as easy as pie…but, in fact, fathoming out what is and isn’t a pie can be confusing. So, with British Pie Week taking place until Sunday, let’s see what lies beneath the crust. The name comes from magpie, a bird noted for its ability to hoard various random items, […]

It’s the age old dilemma. What to get your true love for Valentine’s Day? Do you opt for the usual but fairly safe holy trinity of flowers, chocolates, fizz?  Or something more practical that you’re sure they would appreciate?  Tales abound of the fateful decisions people have made. The girl who found a heart shaped […]

Apart from saints such as Valentine or Patrick, very few people are so revered they have a national day celebrated not just in their own country but abroad. Guy Fawkes night is mainly limited to the UK and commemorates a death rather than life. And Star Wars Day on May 4th – as in may the […]

Bavaria provides the backdrop to some of the most chilling of folk tales – from Krampus, the horned creature that scares naughty children, to the terrifying tatzelwurm, a lizard beast with the face of a cat and poisonous breath. The inspiration for many of the Brothers Grimm tales, even today its medieval streets and castles […]

We don’t know about you, but here in the SK kitchen we can’t get past 12.25pm without a childhood memory returning. That’s when the school bell would ring for the end of morning lessons and the lunchbreak began. Fabulous, a chance to stop looking for x in a never ending algebra rabbit hole and instead […]

We are entering that time of year where outdoor fire becomes central to community celebration. And where you have fire, food often follows either cooked on the flames or in the good old fashioned kitchen. Though Bonfire Night might be the most famous of those events in this part of the world, fire customs date […]

Great minds think alike and that’s as true for food as it is for science. Just as in the late 19th century numerous inventors were experiencing lightbulb moments in the race for the first electric light, so as different civilizations first emerged, they independently invented their own versions of bread, beer and cheese. And so […]

British Food Fortnight is upon us and what better way of celebrating than tucking into the country’s classic cuisine. Before we consider what might be Britain’s most popular national dish, it’s worth casting our minds back 8,000 years to Britain’s oldest recipe. Back then the likes of potatoes, sugar and chicken hadn’t reached these shores […]

Britain’s food favourites are changing and it’s a culinary classic dating back thousands of years that is on the rise. A survey earlier this year by YouGov reveals Chinese is the nation’s favourite takeaway, but delve a little deeper and you’ll find the future is pizza. Fish and chips was number one for senior citizens, […]