The Carnivore Project

Abel & Cole and the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

There.  Isn't that pretty?  Even with an apple on top of it, that's a fine specimen of a Melton Mowbray pork pie, isn't it?  The fine folks over at Abel & Cole sent us a couple of lovely pies to try last week.  Our review of the game pie (which will double as a mustard taste-test!) is forthcoming, but you can read all about that beautiful (organic!) pork pie right here.

Grelha D'Ouro

Bathsheba over at the Stockwell News blog gave us a nice shout-out (thanks!) during an interview with the Londonist , which has inspired me to post another Stockwell restaurant review. Today:  the Grelha D'Ouro, on South Lambeth Road.

Hamburgers in London: The Wheatsheaf and Smith's of Smithfield

So here I am, an American living in London.  Occasionally friends or a family member will ask me what it is that I miss most about the US, probably as a way of filling awkward conversational silences, but perhaps in the hopes that I'll say something gloriously clever, or at least funny.  But my answer is always the same:  I miss hamburgers. 

(My fingers insist on typing the word out as "haumburgers" this morning - perhaps this is phonetically symbolic of my ever-increasing Englishization, which manifests itself as an enormously pretentious-sounding Mid-Atlantic accent?*)

So, yes.  Hamburgers.  It's not that they're unavailable in this city, or even that they're not very good.  They are as widely available as in any American city, and many are very tasty.  But they are not perfect.