By fay.young on March 4, 2010
Holidays are great but they can get in the way of a good story. A tantalising text from Alice brings news of the world cafe event on Friday. Unfortunately the cafe is in North Edinburgh Arts Centre and we (or at least some of the Leith Open Space Group) are in Amsterdam.
Posted in Food, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on December 10, 2009
Now click here to enjoy the film
We are in the kitchen with Mridu Thanki to taste a meal from her first cookery book, Feasts of India. On a cold Edinburgh day there are tantalising warm spicy smells coming from the pan and we are getting hungry. But it isn’t time to eat yet. While Mridu [...]
Posted in Food, Local heroes, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Feasts of India, leith open space, McDonald Road Library, Mridu Thanki, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on June 24, 2009
Damp but undaunted: some of the World Kitchen team. From the left Jo, Pip, Balvinder, Fay, Mridu and Gordon.
We begged and borrowed and though we certainly didn’t steal we owe thanks to many friends and helpers for all your support – in cash, kind, cakes and cooking of all sorts – which made the [...]
Posted in Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on June 16, 2009
If you can’t stand the heat: a rare chance to draw breath in the World Kitchen
It didn’t just rain, it absolutely poured. Recipes and posters got washed away as the deluge battered our poor gazebos. But cooks just kept on cooking which was just as well because as soon as the rain stopped people came [...]
Posted in africa centre, Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Gala Day, Leith Festival, leith open space, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on June 8, 2009
Find the world on your plate at the World Kitchen in Leith
Just five days to go to the opening in Leith Links on Saturday 13 June and it’s getting decidedly hotter in the World Kitchen in Leith. [See also World Kitchen Cooks up a Storm]
Posted in africa centre, Food, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Gala Day, Leith Festival, Planet Asia, World Kitchen
By fay.young on May 11, 2009
Calling all cooks. Here’s your invitation to take part in a unique community event during Leith Festival. World Kitchen in Leith is based on the simple idea that food is the best way to bring people together so we can celebrate the many different cultures that make Leith the most vibrant part of Scotland’s capital [...]
Posted in Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged FEAST, Gala Day, Leith Festival, leith open space, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on April 9, 2009
Thanks to Nick Gardner for the pictures
There’s nothing like a food market to bring life to a public space. The fortnightly farmers market transforms the view outside Ocean Terminal between 10 am and 4pm every second and fourth Friday of the month. And tomorrow is indeed the second Friday of April.
Posted in farmers market, Food | Tagged leith open space, ocean terminal farmers market, public space
