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Luke Honey
London
Antiques & Fine Art Dealer, Blogger and Writer. Regular columnist for Homes & Antiques magazine. Unhealthy interest in second-hand books and unreliable cars. Loves gin and backgammon, loathes mashed potato.
Interests: gin, rare breed chickens, old roses, ukuele
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Hi David, I just pulled the image of the net and tidied it up a bit on photoshop. You might be able to find the original printed ad for sale on the net. Best wishes, Luke.
The Strange Affair of Napoleon's Cognac
Not tonight Josephine... The cognac was not to Rex’s taste. It was clear and pale and it came to us in a bottle free from grime and Napoleonic cyphers. It was only a year or two older than Rex and lately bottled. They gave it to us in very thin tulip-shaped glasses of modest size. “Bra...
Have a look on Amazon UK. There are decent reproduction baskets for sale. Otherwise, for a genuine French vintage example, I would get in touch with Mikki at The Antique Kitchen: https: www.theantiquekitchen.co.uk And please tell her I sent you.
Good luck!
Best wishes, Luke
French Egg Baskets
Traditional wire-work egg baskets are good looking and relatively affordable. I happen to think that they are an infinitely preferable way to keep your eggs- although, of course, there are some odd people out there who insist on keeping them in the 'fridge. They were popular in France duri...
Personally, I would go for the silver tankard- Romantic that I am....
Black Velvet
As I advance- tentatively- into the twilight years of Late Late Youth, I'm finding that simplicity (in all its many splendid forms) is the way forward- most especially when it comes to cocktails- and the making of. Once Upon a Time there was a fashion- I'm thinking back to the 1980s- for e...
Yes. Oh yes. Idiot, Covid-brained Luke. I should have mentioned that. It’s funny how certain drinks tend to taste better in chilled metal. Ale-tastes infinitely preferable in a polished pewter tankard.
Having said that, I’m not convinced that the original Brooks’s Club version was served in a tankard, as- I think- you’re supposed to be able to see the black armband effect- which, logically, has to mean a glass.
Black Velvet
As I advance- tentatively- into the twilight years of Late Late Youth, I'm finding that simplicity (in all its many splendid forms) is the way forward- most especially when it comes to cocktails- and the making of. Once Upon a Time there was a fashion- I'm thinking back to the 1980s- for e...
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Jul 31, 2020
I believe- I may be wrong- that it was first published in The Good Food Guide Dinner Party Book in 1971. That recipe included Campbell's Consomme Soup. The problem is that modern Campbell's isn't gelatinous enough, so none other than Simon Hopkinson updated the recipe with a leaf of gelatine.
The Fabulous Snaffles Mousse
I've recently been reading up on an old 70's cult favourite, the Snaffles Mousse. For those in the know, Snaffles was a fashionable basement restaurant in Dublin and the Snaffles Mousse was the signature dish of its proprietor, Nicholas Tinné. Hilariously, Snaffles Mousse is nothing more t...
Black Velvet
Posted Jul 31, 2020 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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Jan 25, 2020
The Balham Mystery- Last Dinner at the Priory
Posted Jan 25, 2020 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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Jan 23, 2020
Down with the Roundheads! Long live the Cavaliers!
The Gourmand: Dining on High
I'm very aware that I've rather neglected The Greasy Spoon over the last few months, due to 'pressures of work'- the blogger's perennial excuse. Sorry. But I'm glad to report that I am now hard at work on a new post for The Greasy Spoon. Fans of the Balham Mystery, aka The Bravo Poisonin...
The Gourmand: Dining on High
Posted Jan 22, 2020 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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Many thanks for the correction. Important to get these things right...
The Santa Fe Dining Car
Here's an early 60's menu from the Santa Fe Super Chief Express Dining Car, courtesy of Vincent and Mary Price's "Treasury of Great Recipes", first published in 1965. The Super Chief was the flagship passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was often called "T...
Hi David, and thank you for your kind words.
Funnily enough I've been on instagram for a few years now (please find me!), and getting a much better response from it. But my Facebook ban has been carried through to instagram by default, so I'm blocked from putting up a direct link to The Greasy Spoon. All I can do is to point readers in the direction of the blog. It's slightly frustrating.
I'm kinda fascinated by the Cradock's Georgian Dower House near Watford, of all places. Rather pretty countryside on the fringes of suburbia. You can see it from the road. Whereabouts in outer West London did you live? Outer-outer, semi-rural London has a strange captivation- we're very much in Iain Sinclair territory, I think.
I've had a few comments about Dan Farson- another 20th century character. I've just discovered his autobiography on amazon.
With best wishes,
Luke
The Greasy Spoon on Facebook
I've been banned from Facebook. For some bizarre reason I am no longer allowed to post links to "The Greasy Spoon- Food & Culture". Not in tune with Facebook's "Community Values"- whatever that means. I have no idea why this is. No idea at all: Encouraging readers in the ways of gin, perhaps? ...
Dunno. But it's just occurred to me that "Fanny" has an unsavoury connotation in the world of the internet. Facebook's wretched- loathe the thing, so I'm not especially bothered- although I did have a small, perhaps older, readership through it. I'm also banned from linking the GS on instagram by default, as of course, instagram is owned by Facebook.
I like instagram, although, I do sometimes wonder if it's really just a more sophisticated version of Facebook, and actually is just as tiresome as the rest. You realise, of course, that they take all our quirks and habits- and then sell them on- Big Brother style- to advertisers. We give them content for free- and they make money from it.
Perhaps I should just carry on with the good old fashioned blog, enjoy writing it for its own sake: ignore the lack of comments, and ditch the rest.
The Greasy Spoon on Facebook
I've been banned from Facebook. For some bizarre reason I am no longer allowed to post links to "The Greasy Spoon- Food & Culture". Not in tune with Facebook's "Community Values"- whatever that means. I have no idea why this is. No idea at all: Encouraging readers in the ways of gin, perhaps? ...
Yes. Exactly. And ahead of her time. I'm also a champion of her French food which seems to have gone out of fashion. The fad for the diet of the Mediterranean peasant seems to have been with us since the 90s- and shows no indication of coming to an end. Maybe the success of Otto's restaurant in the Grays Inn Road shows that the cause is not entirely dead.
If Looks Could Kill: Daniel Farson vs Fanny Cradock
Fear of Fanny: What are you going to eat? Live ones or dead ones? Television is dead. A generalisation, of course, but if recent viewing figures are anything to go by, this could be the end of the road for the big four British channels as we knew them. Younger people don't watch the BBC ...
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Aug 14, 2019
If Looks Could Kill: Daniel Farson vs Fanny Cradock
Posted Aug 14, 2019 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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Apr 26, 2019
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Apr 26, 2019
Couldn't agree more. It's that depressing herd mentality. And the self-obsession. So tedious.
The Greasy Spoon on Facebook
I've been banned from Facebook. For some bizarre reason I am no longer allowed to post links to "The Greasy Spoon- Food & Culture". Not in tune with Facebook's "Community Values"- whatever that means. I have no idea why this is. No idea at all: Encouraging readers in the ways of gin, perhaps? ...
The Greasy Spoon on Facebook
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Posted Apr 23, 2019 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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I once tried it with vodka- a Hugh Fearley-Whittingstale effort, but have to say that- for me at least- it didn't work. And next year I was back to gin. I find that a teaspoon of almond essence does wonders- gives it that Amaretto kick.
Sloe Gin
It's that time of the year to make Sloe Gin again. Well, almost. Sloe Gin is a liqueur made from the sloe berries of the Blackthorn bush, which grows in the hedgerows of the English countryside. By ancient lore, they are picked at the end of October, supposedly just after the first frost; ...
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Apr 15, 2019
Ginmania
Posted Apr 15, 2019 at The Greasy Spoon | Food & Culture
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