The Friday 5 #133

Bottles to give as gifts, hot X bun abominations and the latest on the KFP (Korean food project)

I hope you saw the ‘kitchen hang’ I did yesterday with fellow food writer Rosie Birkett. If not you can catch up with it here.

I don’t feel nearly as comfortable doing video as I do writing but Substack seems to be pushing it endlessly at the moment, as does Instagram so I suppose one must occasionally pop ones head above the parapet. And Rosie is so lovely it was just like chatting away to a friend (which she is) about two of the subjects we most enjoy: eating and drinking.

We had a long discussion about pans and bread knives too, more on which below.

I’ve also been pursuing my Korean food project the full results of which I’ll share at the end of the month but a few words in the meantime on the dish (see above) to which I’m already addicted.

Mother’s Day, as I’m sure you’re aware, is round the corner and Easter looming. Which prompted thoughts of what wine you should buy as a gift without falling back on the usual clichés. Surely not all mothers are the same even if the marketing world behaves as if they are?

Rant over. Here are some good wine recommendations . . .

Which reminds me that I should remind you that my next wine tasting is coming up in just over a week’s time, on a theme, suggested by those of you who attended the last session, of grenache and grenache blends.

You might be less familiar with it as a grape variety than malbec or shiraz but there’s lots to learn and explore. (There’s white and rosé grenache as well as red.)

Join me, glass of grenache in hand at 6.30pm on Monday March 31st. (You need to be a paid subscriber but can join for as little as £5. AND you get all these other benefits.