The 50 Best food websites

The 50 Best food websites

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Producers: Ruby Violet This artisan ice-cream parlour in North London’s Tufnell Park is at the forefront of the trend for properly made ice cream and wonderfully inventive flavours. Drop in for a scoop of salted caramel, damson with sour cream or lemon ripple with meringue, or order an ice cream layer cake or bombe for a special occasion. The cute Ruby Violet van is available to hire for events. rubyviolet.co.uk Hella Bitters Cocktail connoisseurs know that bitters maketh the drink. Hella Bitters is a small company based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which launched via a Kickstarter project in 2011. The two flavours are Citrus and Aromatic, and the recipes on the website show how to use them in cocktails such as Peat’s Old Fashioned and the gin-based Southside, as well as as a marinade for roast chicken and crispy bacon. hellabitters.com Field & Flower Great quality meat from Somerset, including home-reared 28-day hung beef as well as local lamb, pork and chicken around the UK. Choose pre-mixed boxes such as Belly and Brisket, Wings and Ribs, Thrifty Beef or Hungry Student, from £18, or sign up for a regular delivery. fieldandflower.co.uk Maltby Street Market The capital is crammed with food markets these days, but Maltby Street, a cheeky breakaway from the overexposed Borough, is well worth a visit. The collection of small producers include Mirabilia (oleaft.com), a wonderful olive tea from Italy, and Little Bird Gin (littlebirdgin.com), the mellifluous outcome of some friends deciding to create their own London Dry gin. maltby.st The Grenada Chocolate Company A small — but significant — cooperative with strong ideals. It produces award-winning dark chocolate in a small factory in Grenada, where the cocoa growers are making a stand against the exploitation of cocoa producer, and promoting much better standards of chocolate appreciation. grenadachocolate.com Hansen & Lydersen Ole Martin-Hansen smokes his salmon in east London, but the recipe comes from his great-grandfather, the first of four generations of Norwegian salmon smokers, using a special family recipe including juniper and beech wood. Available in some of the best restaurants, and to buy online. hansen-lydersen.com Pump Street Bakery This small, family-owned bakery in the Suffolk village of Orford believes in real bread and slow food, and will turn out anything from a white loaf to a croissant or an Eccles cake. Named BBC Best Food Producer 2012. pumpstreetbakery.com Netherend Farm If you’re going to treat yourself to butter — and you should — make it count by smearing only the very best on your bread. Netherend Farm in Gloucestershire produces organic butter for many top-end clients (Claridge’s, Dukes Hotel and the Orient Express), but you can also find it in Waitrose, and it’s no more expensive than other branded butter. netherendfarmbutter.co.uk Sacred Spirits There are many gins to choose from, but Sacred, distilled in London by a husband-and-wife team, is my favourite. The botanicals include citrus, juniper, nutmeg, cardamom and even a type of frankincense. Sacred blends a few gins and vodkas, and a vermouth, from around £30, presented in tall and elegant bottles. sacredspiritscompany.com Tregothnan Tea Proudly Britain’s only tea producer — nowhere else quite has the climate — the Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall blends 35 varieties thanks to its unusual microclimate, and a visit to the house and estate makes a great day out. Apparently even the Chinese, the world’s largest tea producers, buy from Tregothnan in great quantities. tregothnan.co.uk Chefs: Fuchsia Dunlop If you’re not sure about Chinese food, you need to get to know Fuchsia Dunlop, the foremost expert on the cuisine in the western world. Her writing (if you’re not a cook, head first for her memoir Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper) is as tasty as her recipes. Every Grain of Rice sets out to re-educate the British palate’s coarse and generalised appreciation for the subtleties of flavour and texture in Chinese food. fuchsiadunlop.com Great British Chefs The work of many chefs operating at the top of their game in the UK is showcased here, with interviews, features, hundreds of recipes for cooks of all abilities, great ideas for kids and information on seasonal ingredients. There are several accompanying apps and a great shop with cookbooks, fine ingredients and cheffy experiences. greatbritishchefs.com Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall HFW became a household name thanks to his bucolic tales from the River Cottage, on the Devon-Dorset border, from where he practises and preaches a sustainable way of eating and living, sharing knowledge with a like-minded community of cooks, gardeners, farmers and food lovers. Browse the recipes, visit one of the three River Cottage Canteens, or book a day in the cookery school. rivercottage.net Ottolenghi Master of all things Middle Eastern and owner of four eponymous café/restaurants and the fabulous Nopi, Ottolenghi has a recently revamped webstore selling everything you’ll need to do his recipes justice at home. Get the Jerusalem Essentials box (£18.50) of tahini, pine nuts, sumac, za’atar, cardamom and pomegranate molasses to kick you off. ottolenghi.co.uk Food52 Take a moment to explore Food52 and you’ll find a whole bunch of chefs and their brilliant ideas to lift you out of any eating or cooking rut: José Pizarro’s salt-crusted potatoes with coriander mojo, for example. There are features, recipes and fun contests, brought together with the ethos that cooking and eating well brings families together and makes us healthier and happier. food52.com Modernist Cuisine Expertise of any kind, particularly the extreme skills on display here, carry costs. The six volumes of the Modernist Cuisine cookbooks will set you back £395, however, so you might prefer to get your fix of how science and experimentation intersect with cooking on this very professional website. The great stories include the science behind mac ’n’ cheese. modernistcuisine.com Nigella The more she sends up her own lascivious nature and penchant for childish and calorific foods, the more we seem to love Nigella. Her site carries video clips, kitchen kit, advice on common queries such as baking know-how, measurements and general household tips, and lots of recipes for time-poor food fans, like instant chocolate mousse and curry in a hurry. nigella.com Kerb A mobile collective of dedicated, innovative and darn tasty chefs, Kerb brings together the best food outlets on wheels in London’s fast regenerating Kings Cross most weekdays, and will open on a few Saturdays throughout the summer. From handmade chocolates and frozen yoghurt to burgers, pies, dim sum, doughnuts, pintxos and much more, you’ll never get bored of browsing KERB’s growing group of traders. kerbfood.com Simon Rogan One of the most exciting chefs working in the UK today, Simon Rogan won acclaim with L’Enclume at Cartmel in the Lakes, which now has two Michelin stars, before wowing London with his tasting menus at Roganic. His latest venture is to reinvigorate The French at Manchester’s Midland Hotel. simonrogan.co.uk Delia Smith If you want to take yourself or a loved one back to quality basics (and beyond) in the kitchen, you’ll find everything you need on Delia Online. Her online cookery school is full of sensible advice and techniques and clever video tutorials. Deliaonline.com Suppliers: Mex Grocer Fans of Mexican cooking will know there are few places in the UK to source authentic corn tortillas or the flour for making your own, a tortilla press or a can of tomatillos. You’ll find all these and many branded Mexican foods including snacks, herbs and spices on Mex Grocer. mexgrocer.co.uk Demijohn A great idea and the answer to tricky gift-buying. Demijohn describes itself as a “liquid deli”, and stores a wide selection of oils, vinegars and unusual spirits (red chilli rapeseed oil, bramble vinegar, Seville orange or gooseberry gin) in huge demijohns, ready to be decanted into glass bottles of varying shapes and sizes, according to the order. demijohn.co.uk Whisk A sort of hybrid between a cookbook and an online supermarket (and a very clever one at that), Whisk has collated thousands of recipes and generates a shopping basket for users, showing where to buy the necessary ingredients, with the price and quantities calculated. More efficient and accurate than an old-school shopping list, and more fun. whisk.co.uk Brindisa The Brindisa online shop is a brilliant source of top quality, hard-to-find Spanish ingredients for when you want to sample the best of this increasingly popular cuisine at home. Find chorizo, morcilla, the best ham, Ortiz tuna and anchovies, cheeses, pimenton and saffron, and much more. brindisa.com Sous Chef Serious home cooks need serious ingredients, which can be difficult to source, especially in small quantities. Enter Sous Chef: the team has everything the adventurous cook could possibly need, whether you’re after a rare Chinese pepper or a Middle Eastern condiment, plus a treasure trove of specialist equipment to prepare and serve your creations, as well as recipes, gift ideas and lots of technical information. souschef.co.uk Steenbergs Organic If you’re after really good quality and ethically sourced spices, seasonings, tea, coffee and other grocery items, Steenbergs will deliver. The husband and wife team is based in North Yorkshire and their commitment to good food is borne out by their success. Their dinky pots look great in your kitchen, too. steenbergs.co.uk Eight Point Nine Workshop Coffee Coffee snobs with no space at home for a roastery can get involved with the blending process and design their own drink with Eight Point Nine. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of guidance from the experts on what will, might and won’t work. eightpointnine.com Virgin Wines I agree: it is indeed tedious that Virgin feels the need to expand its brand into every available space. However its wine company is really pretty impress

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