Going Cuban

Have you seen Chef, the movie? I did, and it blew me away. OK, it's not the greatest film it the world. It hasn't won all the big awards, and it's pretty hokey. That aside, the film is off the foodie charts. Not a surprising thing when the film is called Chef. 

The cooking scenes have been so lovingly framed and filmed that it makes you salivate, and then cook, and then stuff your face. 
I was taken aback at just how beautifully Director, and star, Jon Favreau, captured every element of cooking. Watching the scenes of him in the professional  kitchen made me think back to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, and his description of professional kitchens working almost as if in a choreographed dance. 

Drunk mangoes

Unfortunately the Indian/Pakistan mango season is coming to an end and all those weeks of eating mango after mango is over. 

This year like every other year I've enjoyed going to Wembley to pick up boxes of Honey, Kesar and Alphonso mangoes. If you've not been I suggest you take a walk down Ealing road and take in the sights and smells.