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Marinated mushrooms & shaved zucchini salad for a London food blogger lunch

by Jeanne Horak on May 23, 2005 14 Comments in Gluten-free, London food blogger events, Salads, Vegetarian

BloggerLunchTitle © J Horak-Druiff 2005

If there’s one thing I hardly ever do, it’s watch sport.  So you may well ask what I was doing scrumming my way onto a train to Twickenham last Saturday at noon, surrounded by men with funny hats and (apparently) an interest in other men’s odd-shaped balls. Well, it’s a long story, and as is usual in my life, it has to do with food!   

Passionate Cook Johanna and I had got together a couple of months ago and kicked around the idea of having a food blogger get-together here in London. I mean, San Francisco bloggers seem to see a lot of each others and Perth bloggers regularly meet up, and here we are living in the culinary capital of the western world and nobody had so far suggested that we try to get together.  Part of it might be the curious Londoner lack of enthusiasm for travelling long distances just for dinner (case in point – how much easier is it to persuade people to meet you in town for drinks after work rather than persuade them to come round to your house for dinner??), but in light of the international flavour of our food blogging community, we decided we could probably take a chance and organise a gathering.  Which is how I found myself jammed onto a train with a bunch of people in rugby shirts and funny hats, heading for Twickenham last Saturday.  I made it to Johanna’s in one piece where Jo had dragged herself off her sickbed to welcome us into her home. (There had been a nervous moment the evening before when she wasn’t sure she would feel up to it and the guests were confronted with the prospect of having to travel to the Far East (!!) to get to my house…). 

Over the next hour or so, the following fellow-bloggers joined us: 

2005BloggerlunchGroup1 © J Horak-Druiff 2005

Andrew of Spittoon – our only wine blogger and the only thorn amongst the roses, so to speak (!); Meg of Though Small, It is Tasty (the blog formerly known as Lets Eat with Meg and Ted :-P), who travelled all the way from Dublin to join us; and Jenni of Pertelote, who lives only one London postcode away from me, so we’re practically neighbours 🙂

2005BloggerLunchGroup2 © J Horak-Druiff 2005

Across the table we have Johanna on the left, comparing camera kit with Keiko of Nordljus who is as delicate and sweet in real life as her gorgeous desserts are on her blog; and Cecile of English Patis, another blogger who lives a little way out of London and stoically braved the vagaries of weekend timetables and engineering works on British Rail to join us.

After a glass of bubbly in the garden getting to know each other, we were all seated in Jo’s beautiful conservatory dining area for the start of the feast.  Andrew was kind enough to arrange for some wines for our gathering, courtesy of Decanter Wines.  Now I have met the charming Krystyna and Jim Monks who run Decanter at the independent wine merchants fair last May – they specialise in Spanish wines and their enthusiasm for both Spain and its wines is very infectious.  If anybody should be trusted to select the right wines to sample with tapas/antipasti, it should most certainly be these two! And they were off to a good start with the Bohigas Cava Brut NV that we were sipping in the garden with morcillas and caprese cocktail sticks – full tasting notes on this and the other wines are available at the end of this post.

So what do food bloggers cook when they get together?  Well, Jo and I had decreed the theme to be tapas/antipasti as this would probably be the least stressful way to feed lots of people, which opened the door to anything from cured meats to salads, to breads and cheeses – sounds like my kind of menu!!  Here’s the complete menu (and a somewhat incomplete photographic record! Must have been the wine…)

2005BloggerLunchAsparagus © J Horak-Druiff 2005

2005BloggerLunchCaprese © J Horak-Druiff 2005

Johanna made skewers of baby vine tomatoes, fresh basil leaves and mozzarella balls marinated in balsamic vinegar, plus blanched asparagus spears wrapped in Parma ham.  The “caprese on a stick” skewers definitely win the prize for “most photogenic food of the day” – check out all these snaps!

2005BloggerLunchBread © J Horak-Druiff 2005

Meg obviously did not have the luxury of her own kitchen to cook in, seeing as she was just on a flying visit from Dublin.  Instead, she brought a delicious selection of artisinal breads from Brighton.

Jenni made a big and very attractive bowl of tuna and chickpea salad with roasted red peppers and paprika.  This had the most intriguing smoky flavour that we eventually (after some debate) ascribed to the particular type of paprika.  She also brought along some fab little morcilla sausages from Brindisa – oh wow!  Never had these before but will certainly be having them again! (No pics I’m afraid 🙁  But you can see them both in the pic of the table at the beginning of this post.)

2005BloggerLunchCheeseTerrine © J Horak-Druiff 2005

Cecile made a terrine of goat’s cheese (which Jo’s daughter promptly re-named ghost cheese – it’s a long story!!), pesto, garlic and sun-dried tomatoes which proved extremely popular, as well as empanadas filled with chicken, pork, raisins and egg – a really interesting combination of tastes that worked really well with the red wine. 

2005BloggerLunchZucchini © J Horak-Druiff 2005

2005BloggerLunchMushrooms © J Horak-Druiff 2005

I made a carpaccio of zucchini with pecorino shavings and capers (as served at our whole salmon barbecue last summer), as well as a big bowl of marinated mushrooms – my sister-in-law Paola’s recipe – both of which were deliciously garlicky but light and fresh.  Lots of dressing to be mopped up with the bread!

2005BloggerLunchDesserts © J Horak-Druiff 2005

And then Keiko wowed us all with not one, not two, but three desserts!  Individual chocolate pots with a cake base; tiramisu with home-made sponge cake instead of ladyfinger biscuits (as used by the rest of us mere mortals…!) and truly the best crème brulee I have ever tasted.  It struck the right balance between wobbly egginess and crispy caramel bittersweetness, while the vanilla tasted of real pods, not bottled essence.  Sublime.

2005BloggerLunchTokaji © J Horak-Druiff 2005

A very special treat for me was the wine Johanna produced from her personal cellar to sip with the desserts.  First up was a bottle of Tokaji Aszu, the legendary Hungarian dessert wine.  Not many people are familiar with this wine and some may even think that Tokaji is a generic term for dessert wine.  In fact, Tokaji is an appelation in Hungary’s Tokaji-Hegyalja (Tokaji hills) region about 120 miles north of Budapest, making a number of wines but known chiefly for the sweet botrytised Aszu wines.  The original meaning of the Hungarian word aszú was “dried”, but it came to be associated with a type of wine made with botrytised (i.e. dried) grapes.  The grapes which are planted (Tokaji Furmint, Tokaji Harslevelu or Tokaji Muscat)are all late ripeners and the harvest takes placein three stages.  One harvest is conducted by hand in vineyards where over half the grapes are botrytis affected – the botrytis-affected berries are selected and stored separately.  A second harvest takes plac in vineyards with a lower proportion of botrytis-affected grapes, and here botrytised and healthy grapes are harvested and mixed together; and a third harvests only healty grapes.  THe Aszu wines are made using a combination of the first and second harvests.  In years where conditions do not favour the development of botrytis, no Aszu wines can be made.  And for those of you who have checked out the label, the puttony number is based on the content of sugar and sugar-free extract in the mature wine. Aszú ranges from 3 puttonyos to 6 puttonyos, with a further category called Aszú-Eszencia representing wines above 6 puttonyos – so at 5 puttonyos our example was in the sweeter range.

2005BloggerLunchDecanter © J Horak-Druiff 2005

 

The other special treat that Jo brought out was a bottle of German Eiswein (you will also find Austrian examples, and a Canadian version called icewine).  This is another dessert wine, but one made in a very different way.  It generally describes a sweet white wine pressed from grapes that have been frozen solid at the time of picking – in Germany the grapes must be harvested at between -8° and -10° Celsius. Now grape juice contains ripe sugar and some acidity, plus various concentrated flavours and properties, all in solution in water. Water freezes at a higher temperature than grape juice so that when the frozen grapes are crushed the ice remains solid, while the concentrated extract of the juice flows from the press. This sticky concentrate is then fermented rather slowly to produce a rich, golden, sweet and exquisitely flavoured icewine or eiswein, which has a relatively low alcohol content.  It made for a very interesting comparison to taste these two highly sought after yet very different dessert wines at one sitting – thanks again Jo!  And see my tasting notes below if you are interested.

And so the afternoon slipped past.  We all learned something (who Pertelote is, that Meg is soon to be Dr Meg, tips on wine, tips on photography, how to handle a lovely, heavy ship’s decanter, who has the oldest blog there and what inspired each of us to start blogging) and made some new friends.

2005BloggerLunchPhotographers © J Horak-Druiff 2005

The best for me was to be surrounded by people who, as soon as the food was put on the table, all reached for their cameras and started snapping away – nobody rolled their eyes, asked why anyone would want to photograph food, or asked me to explain (again!) what a blog is!  Bliss!!  We were joined at the end of the meal by Jo’s husband and two charming children, the eldest of whom mixes a mean espresso, and the youngest of whom loves (at 16 months) feeding decadent desserts to women he’s just met.  He’s going to be a heartbreaker…!

Everybody finally started making a move homeward after 4 hours of non-stop eating, drinking, photographing and discussing of FOOD!  An afternoon well-spent I would say – thanks to all of you for your delicious food and wine and your stimulating company.  Plans are afoot for a picnic in July – hopefully on the banks of the Thames at the Henley regatta where there will be candy for the mouth as well as candy for the eye in the form of loads and loads of men in lycra!

Hmm, so maybe I’m not so averse to watching sport after all.  (Wo)Man cannot live by bread alone!

SHAVED ZUCCHINI SALAD (serves 4)

Ingredients:
4 large zucchini

For the dressing:
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup of extra virgin olive oil
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1Tbsp capers
1 tsp wholegrain mustard
salt and milled black pepper to taste
Parmesan shavings (I substituted Pecorino)
chopped flat-leaf parsley

Method:
Choose fairly large baby marrows.  Using a vegetable peeler, slice the marrows lengthwise into ribbons.  Turn onto a platter and pour over the dressing.  Regrigerate for an hour or two if possible.  To serve, top with shavings of Parmesan and a sprinkle of parsley.

MARINATED MUSHROOMS (serves 4-6)

Ingredients:
500g button/closed cup mushrooms
3-4 cloves of garlic, crushed
finely grated rind and juice of a small lemon
4 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp salt
2-3 tsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
pinch of grated fresh nutmeg

Method:
Wash and slice the mushrooms thinly.  Blanch in boiling water for a few minutes until slightly softened.  Mix all the other ingredients together in a flat, shallow bowl.  Drain the mushrooms and add to the sauce in the bowl.  Leave in the fridge to marinate overnight.  Before serving, add salt and freshly milled black pepper to taste.

 

And for the benefit of the winos amongst my readership, here are my complete tasting notes on what we drank.  All are from Decanter Wines, unless otherwise indicated.  A tiny word of warning – the notes get progressively more sketchy as we move twards the dessert wines!!

Bohigas Cava Brut NV (Catalunya, Spain) – 11,5% alc., blend of Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada

C –       pale gold, lively mousse

N-       shy

P –       not very yeasty, crisp mousse.  Fruitier than a French champagne but possibly showing some signs of bottle age?  For the price I would have expected more.

Bodegas Farina Colegiata Rosado 2003 (Catalunya, Spain) 12.5% alc., 100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo)

C –      beautiful deep rose with orange hints at the edges

N –      burnt caramel, delicious

P –      off-dry, lots of sweet berry fruits up front (strawberries?).  Hints of vanilla and caramel on the long finish.  Delicious!  And stood up amazingly well to the capers in my zucchini carpaccio – a moutful taken directly after eating a caper seemed to yield a new depth of sweet flavour, rather than being spoiled by the saltiness.  This was my favourite wine of the day.

Michel Gendrier Cuvee Francois 1er 2000 (Loire, France) 12% alc.  100% Romorantin

C –       pale straw

N –       plasticky, kerosene, like a South African Weisser Riesling

P –       High acid, hardly any fruit.  Not particularly pleasant to drink on its own but softened slightly with food.  Still, there are better deals around for £10!

*Matahiwi Estate Sauvignon Blanc (Wairarapa, New Zealand)  12% alc.  100% Sauvignon Blanc

C –       very pale, greenish hints?

N –       powerful nose.  Green, vegetal, grassy – possibly some asparagus?  Definitely no gooseberries here!

P –       Fruity – pineapple in particular.  A big wine that stood up well to the garlic and vinegar dressing on the zucchini and mushrooms.  Very pleasant.

*Burgans Albarino (Rias Baixas, Spain) 12.5% alc., 100% Albarino

C –       pale straw

N –       crisp, pleasant nose.  Green apples.

P –       Creamy mouthfeel and a slight prickle on the tongue, which reinfoced the green apple scents on the nose.  Lovely fresh wine which also paired well with the chickpea and tuna salad.

Virasa Vinicola Cerro Bercial Reserva 1999 (Utiel Requena, Spain) 13% alc., Tempranillo and Bobal grapes

C –       Very deep garnet, almost opaque

N –       Lovely complex smokey nose with hints of blackberry/plum jam

P –       Delicious jammy fruit and smokiness.  Very balaced tannins and good structure.  Cocoa powder and dark chocolate on the finish.  Medium bodied, medium long finish.

**Tokaji Aszu 1997, 11.5% alc., 5 puttonyos

C –       golden amber, beautiful

N –       Absolutely delicious – dried peaches and apricots, burnt caramel

P –       As on the nose – apricots and caramel with a good atructure – not cloying.  Lovely long finish.  Delicious!!

**Eiswein (Maybe Jo can supply details – I didn’t note down anything!!)

C –       pale straw, much lighter than the Tokaji

N –       sultanas and honey

P –       sweet dessert pears (pear drops, I’m told!!) with a good acid balance.  Far less syrupy than the Tokaji.  Lovely long finish of spicy stewed apples

*  from Oddbins

**  from Johanna’s cellar

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  1. Andrew says

    May 24, 2005 at 1:13 am

    A super and entertaining post as always. Although just who is that twat in the first photo!

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  2. Stephanie says

    May 24, 2005 at 1:16 am

    As I mentioned to Johanna, I do wish I lived closer to you guys!
    I am stuck in the Southern US, and if not for my in-laws, I’d have no culinary friends at all (Matt does count, but I live with him!)

    Reply
  3. Spittoon.biz says

    May 24, 2005 at 2:09 am

    Cook Sister Reports.

    Another view on the food bloggers meet of a few weekends ago – The Cooksister writes an entertaining post but does refer to me as a thorn amongst the roses! How rude 😉 The desserts find favour while the rosado wine I supplied (via Decanter Wines) see…

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  4. AugustusGloop says

    May 24, 2005 at 6:46 am

    Looks wonderful. I am so jealous (and not just about those desserts–yuuuummm!).
    We Sydney-siders will take heed!

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  5. Moira says

    May 24, 2005 at 9:39 am

    Aaarrrggghhh… I can’t believe I wasn’t able to make it! I’ve got to make the next one, come hell or high water, or I’m just going to dissolve in a puddle of disappointment, envy, and ultimately, bitterness. Is the July hook-up a sure thing?

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  6. anthony says

    May 24, 2005 at 4:20 pm

    I’m inspired. Next month I’ll have to get all the Perth food blogger together for lunch and a few bottles of wine.

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  7. Joolez says

    May 24, 2005 at 10:20 pm

    I N C R E D I B L E ! I only looked at the photos for now, must read the whole story later, but the photos alone are A M A Z I N G ! From looking my favorite is the mozzarella tomato … mabye that’ll change after reading the whole story. We’ll see.

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  8. celiaK says

    May 24, 2005 at 10:21 pm

    Great post Jeanne! And it was worth the wait – so very comprehensive.
    I just had to laugh when you said that as soon as food was served we all reached for our cameras. 😆 I was just imagining what a non-blogger would think upon seeing us. 🙂

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  9. Jeanne says

    May 25, 2005 at 12:19 am

    Andrew – awwww, I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself…! You were just being super expressive with the hand gestures and supercilious with that tilt of the chin 😉 It’s a classic wine writer pose!
    Stephanie – what if we gave you lots and lots of notice of the next meet-up? Surely you can justify a teensy weensy little trip across the Atlantic? I mean, it’s all in the name of your art? 😀 Seriously, if you lived any closer *of course* you would have been included!
    AG – I think it’s high time the Sydney-siders planned their own get-together! See – it’s easy and it’s fun – if we can do it, so can you. The food really was outstanding – I guess if you want a fab tapas spread your first step is to invite only foodies!!
    Moira – I’m sooooo sorry you could not make this one 🙁 But there will definitely be more. I don’t see any reaon why the July get-together won’t take place. But we’ll chat some more on e-mail.
    Anthony – it was such a fab idea and really easy. Everyone just makes their party pleaser so you end up with a collection of fab dishes at the table. And besides, tapas-style eating always lends itself to picking, conversation, lots of wine and lazy afternoons.
    Joolez – thanks for the compliments! The tomato mozarella sticks were *exceptionally* photogenic – and good to eat too! 😉 How about a little trip over from Munich to join us for the next one? I’d love to get some photographic tips from you!!
    Cecile – glad you liked the post! And since you were there, possibly you can vouch for the fact that Andrew really does talk with his hand, just like in the picture!! The food photography thing is so funny – I think maybe that is the final dividing line between food bloggers and non food bloggers. It was great to meet up with a bunch of people that share my obsession! We obsessives should stick together…

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  10. Joolez says

    May 25, 2005 at 10:53 pm

    << How about a little trip over from Munich to join us for the next one? I'd love to get some photographic tips from you!! >>
    After seeing these pictures there is really nothing I could tell you that you don’t already know 🙂 And that coming over part sounds so extremely tempting … I just have to wait if I am going to be an unemployed and broke “clochard” soon, or what life is dishing out for me … and then I’ll decide whether I can travel, but London is very high on my list of “things I want to do”.

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  11. Rachael says

    May 26, 2005 at 4:19 pm

    That sounds SO lovely! What a great post. So enticing! I am in the West Midlands, so next time you all get together, you’ll have to let me know, I would love to join in! To meet all of you and eat such beautiful food would be dream…
    🙂
    Rachael

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  12. Sam says

    May 26, 2005 at 9:45 pm

    you lot have raised the bar for the san franciscans
    it’s ok though, we have something up our sleeves
    and don’t laugh at me when I tell you I have had serious thoughts about organizing the world’s first international food bloggging convention.
    Just need to come up with a nice central location (like Tahiti)

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  13. anthony says

    May 27, 2005 at 3:55 am

    It’ll just be me so maybe I can have one this afternoon.

    Reply
  14. English Patis says

    August 2, 2005 at 4:09 pm

    Carpaccio of Courgette

    … Immediately I remembered the carpaccio that Jeanne of Cook Sister brought to our first London blogger’s EB (her original recipe is here). Fortunately, I had a couple of courgettes (zucchinis) in the fridge. It was perfect! I think this is good to…

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*NEW RECIPE* Barbecued salmon with blood oranges, *NEW RECIPE* Barbecued salmon with blood oranges, capers and dill. Pretty in pink 💕

[AD] Blood oranges are a small obsession of mine - from blood orange posset to blood orange and halloumi salad to blood orange & Cointreau upside down cake, I am always looking for new ways to make the most of their short season. Barbecuing them with salmon, capers and dill is a perfect match in terms of flavour as well as colour (or you can oven bake the salmon if it's not barbecue weather where you are!)

When @grahambeckuk asked me to suggest some recipes to match their wonderful Graham Beck Brut Rosé NV sparkling wine from South Africa, this was a pairing made in heaven, and wonderfully colour co-ordinated with their silver-pink bubbly. Get the full recipe and find out more about Graham Beck's sparkling wines, made using the same methods as Champagne, on my blog - link in my bio above. 

What do you like to do with blood oranges? I'd love to hear in the comments!
💘"Love yourself first and everything falls into 💘"Love yourself first and everything falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball

Whether you are celebrating with a partner, with friends, or by yourself today, I hope most of all that you love yourself, love your body, love your strengths, love your weaknesses, and love who you are (or are becoming). Because... you're worth it!

Are you doing anything celebratory today? Let me know in the comments 💘💘💘

(The beautiful street art is London Hearts by @akajimmyc)
📸: @girl_travelsworld
Would you believe me if I told you this is NOT a p Would you believe me if I told you this is NOT a picture of a Moorish palace, a castle or a cathedral? And that you can get to it from central London in under an hour?

This is Crossness Pumping Station @crossnesset , a Grade I listed heritage site and one of London's last remaining magnificent Victorian sewage (!) pumping stations in Abbey Wood near Rainham. 

Did you know that...

💩 You can visit the building on monthly open days - the next one is Sun 20 Feb. Book at www.crossness.org.uk

💩  It was only in 1856, after 3 major cholera outbreaks in 30 years and the Big Stink when the stench of London's sewage finally reached Parliament, that construction of an intercepting sewer system for the city was approved.  The system (parts of which are still in use today) was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Chief Engineer of London's Board of Metropolitan Works at the time.

💩  At Crossness, all London's sewage from south of the river was was raised by 9-12 metres to large reservoirs so that gravity would cause it to flow further east and into the Thames estuary. (Yes, until the 1880s, raw sewage was simply pumped into the Thames!)

💩 The incoming liquid was raised by the four enormous steam driven pumps, built to Joseph Bazalgette's design. The pumps were named Victoria, Prince Consort, Albert Edward, and Alexandra. They are thought to be the largest remaining rotative beam engines in the world, with 52-ton flywheels and 47-ton beams. 

💩 The pumping station was decommissioned and abandoned in the 1950s but declared a listed building in 1970.  Although all 4 beam engines remain in place, they were so damaged that today (thanks to the efforts of the Crossness Engines Trust) only Prince Consort has been restored to working condition and can be seen in action on open days.

💩 The exuberant and colourful wrought ironwork inside is the amazing work of architect Charles Henry Driver. My favourite detail is the fact that the pillars in the central atrium are topped with stylised figs and senna pods... two of nature's greatest natural laxatives 🤣
*NEW RECIPE* Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta ch *NEW RECIPE* Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta cheese, pomegranate and pine nuts

Ever noticed how you are affected by colours? 🌈

Maybe some colours make you agitated and some make you relaxed. Or maybe you find yourself inexplicably attracted to a particular colour (oh, hi teal and aqua!💙). On the basis that all colours have a wavelength, and that those outside the visible spectrum can affect us, it makes sense that the colours we see can affect our mood or even our physiology. Did you know for instance that exposure to red light can increase your blood pressure and heart rate? Are there any colours that you find yourself particularly attracted to or affected by?

The pretty colours of these roasted Brussels sprouts with feta cheese, pomegranate and pine nuts will be the first things that attract you to this dish - but it is the delicious combination of flavours and textures that will keep you coming back for more!

The recipe (and more about how colour affects us mentally and physically) is now live on my blog - click the live link in my profile and remember to like and bookmark this post to see more Cooksister in your Instagram feed ❤️
Perspective: a particular attitude towards or way Perspective: a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something.

Perspective is the one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has given us plenty of. It has certainly made us re-evaluate what is truly important, and also what we did and didn't enjoy about our lives  before the pandemic and its associated lockdowns. It made me appreciate how much happiness my house, my job, my friends, my own company and my running bring to my life (and how fortunate I am to have all these things). But it also brought home how much I enjoy and miss travel, the theatre, and the luxury of reataurant visits at the drop of a hat. I don't think words can describe my joy at sipping the first coffee purchased from a coffee shop in summer 2020 as lockdown eased. It's the little things...

One of the things I have enjoyed and will not miss as the world creeps back to normality is the absence of crowds in what is usually a crowded city. On the occasions that I have been in central London since the start of the pandemic, streets have been blissfully empty and it has felt as if I were discovering my city anew. This glorious perspective (hah!) of St Paul's Cathedral normally requires a long wait while a queue of tourists and "influencers" ahead of you pose for photos - but on this glorious day last Spring it was almost deserted. I will miss that...

Is there anything you will miss as Covid-19 restrictions start to be lifted?
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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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