Fay Young

Category: Food

  • Hunger for hope: Imad’s Syrian Kitchen

    Hunger for hope: Imad’s Syrian Kitchen

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    The food is waiting for us. Colours and aromas of Syrian feasts in dishes of creamy humous, smokey aubergine, spicey beetroot, roasted carrot dips, all laid out in pretty bowls on a crowded table. Imad, our smiling host, invites us to sit.

  • It’s not Tesco

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    My curiosity was raised by three words scratched on the empty shop window. “It’s not Tesco,” was a nicely enigmatic teaser which turns out to be true. The food store about to open in Canonmills is a very different kind of business.

  • Out of the heat and into the cool

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    As seen from the minstrels gallery On a brief break from the heat of the kitchen this was a moment to enjoy – overlooking the Out of the Blue Drill Hall Arts Cafe transformed for the night into the World Kitchen in Leith. But there is something else about the sound.

  • Travelling light with the World Kitchen

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    The food miles are short – but the memories go back a long way.  That thought struck me suddenly when I was driving through Edinburgh with a back seat full of cakes so beautifully made by a young man far from home.  It was a good time to remember what the World Kitchen is all…

  • Sure the World Kitchen can stand the heat

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    Thanks to Helen we have a cunning plan.  A table plan, that is, for the World Kitchen in Leith event at Out of the Blue next week.  More to the point we also have a menu which makes us hungry just to think of it – and it’s a menu you won’t find in any…

  • Word of mouth: oral history you can eat

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    I have a shelf full of cookery books and I know some of the recipes off by heart but lately when I need inspiration I reach for the laptop, send some ingredients into cyberspace and back comes a list of recipes. Some of them are pretty good. Does this spell the end of the cookery…

  • Crumbs of comfort

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    Woytek takes one look at me and tells me very nicely to sit down. “I make you a cup of coffee, please take a seat.”  I am hot and a bit bothered but I do what he says. Sun pours through the window of Kleofas Cafe as I sit writing lists of all the things…

  • Leith Farmers Market: bringing soul (and soul food) to Ocean Terminal

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    “There’s a man who looks as if he could do with a good sausage.”  The tone is cheerful and the comment clearly intended to stop us in our tracks. It works.  Mind you, the smell from the sizzling burgers and bangers might have done the trick too.  But Nick Paul is taking no chances.  He…

  • Out to lunch at Dionika

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    Lunch at Dionika – what else is Friday for? Because it’s Friday we’re out to lunch. We’re just about to start on the fish when Eddie and Barry drop in, like us lured by the board outside offering three courses and a glass of wine for £7.50. 

  • Cafe culture thrives in Broughton

    Cafe culture thrives in Broughton

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    Looking out the window it is hard to believe this is the same district we came to more than 30 years ago.

  • Food could save the planet – and the economy too

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    Last night’s meeting at Out of the Blue was cold. Like everyone else Celia and I kept our coats on and held on to hot drinks as long as we could. But the discussion at the Food Summit was so heart warming it reinforced my hunch that food (or how we grow and eat it)…

  • Time for comfort food

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    With capitalism crashing about our ears I have been busy in the kitchen. Making marmalade might not save the household from financial disaster but there is something comforting about tucking into home-made breakfast while the credit crunch devours another victim on the morning radio. So the consumer boom is over. That doesn’t mean we have…