ISSUE 17 www.appetitemag.co.uk August/ September 2013 TICKLE YOUR TASTEBUDS... Antonio Carluccio BBQ bonanza Summer puddings Green power 15 fab recipe Scan this code with your mobile summer loving device to access the latest news THIS MONTH, WE ARE MAINLY EATING AL FRESCO, RAIN OR SHINE! on our website inside kitchen kit // ken’s veg // garden greens // girl butcher // just desserts // a superior supper // join the appetite Club APP17.indb 1 12/08/2013 12:39 PEOPLE OF JESMOND & GOSFORTH DABBAWAL IS COMING TO A PLACE NEAR YOU, END AUG... 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Fab places to tour and taste was restricted to the conversation of that Family holidays in the Highlands are PEOPLE OF rarefi ed higher eschelon of society posh dominated by daily route marches with 13 OUI, CHEF! enough to picnic at the polo. packed lunch and this can prove damp (see Jérôme Cogné’s Pate de Campagne evidence, left, of day three of this summer's Had the term been presented to me, Highlands holiday; close enough to the 14 VEG WITH KEN JESMOND a Yorkshire schoolgirl, during the car, for once, to make a dash for it). I The Pod host 14 Michelin stars long, hot summer of 1976 consider packed lunches on rain/ and counting when we had to dine outside sleet/hail-buffeted hillsides to because it was too hot to eat be character-building and fun, 16 GIRL BUTCHER & GOSFORTH our staple diet of tripe and while my kids consider that Charlotte Harbottle’s fl avoursome fowl onions in the house, I would no food, barbecue included, have assumed it referred should be eaten outside, even 18 THE GRAZER to something foreign and, on a sunny day, when they Anna’s sweet summer puds therefore, highly suspcious. emerge only to grab a burger and dash back inside to the XBox, 20LUNCH DABBAWAL But my, how we have progressed! curtains fi rmly closed. Al fresco feasting at Hotel du Vin I've spent much of the last month eating al fresco at every possible opportunity, I hope you, unlike them, 22 POPPING UP IS COMING TO basically because there remains something are inspired by this John Connell's pop-up feasts thrilling about it; presumably because I grew magazine's al fresco up in a place where the general outlook theme. Enjoy the sun 24 THE GODFATHER A PLACE NEAR was drizzle and tea was a grim affair while it lasts, and if Antonio Carluccio takes on the Toon undertaken in stubborn silence in a small you're a fair-weather room painted grey. Now, at the least sign picnicker, don't go to MASTER CHEF Jane Pikett, Editor 28 YOU, END AUG... of blue sky, I'm either lighting the barbie or the Highlands. 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