By fay.young on August 11, 2010
When we escaped from the heat of the kitchen this is what we saw from the “minstrels’ gallery”overlooking the fantastic space of the Out of the Blue Drill Hall Arts Cafe transformed for the World Kitchen in Leith. The music mixed by our minstrels, RadioMagnetic, is Quantic – Mishaps Happening (Tru Thoughts) and [...]
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By fay.young on August 11, 2010
Alice and Mridu in the kitchen, lots more pictures by George Lamb and Euan Wheatley on Flickr
Altogether it was a great experience. But the night before the event we emerged from the kitchen slightly terrified. When it comes down to it, The World Kitchen in Leith is just a bunch of amateur cooks [...]
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By fay.young on August 6, 2010
World Kitchen in Leith was a really memorable experience for the team and from the kind feedback (so to speak) our guests had a good night too. Coming soon more food stories and some of those recipes from last night’s menus. But first we still have a bit of clearing up to do.
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By fay.young on July 28, 2010
Thanks to Helen we have a plan. A table plan, that is, for the World Kitchen in Leith event at Out of the Blue next week (see last post). More to the point we also have a menu which makes us hungry just to think of it – with food you won’t usually find in [...]
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By fay.young on July 26, 2010
Here’s your invitation to the World Kitchen in Leith at Out of the Blue Drill Hall Arts Cafe on Thursday 5 August. You can book through us or buy tickets direct from Out of the Blue. Tables are going fast but there are still some left for later sittings. More stories about the World Kitchen [...]
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By fay.young on May 27, 2010
Market stall in Tanzania (picture by Yvonne Baginsky)
Wondering where to go and what to eat on Friday night? How about African lamb with spinach, mixed vegetable curry, rice with coconut and beans…finished with a fresh fruit salad of mangos, watermelon, guavas and pineapple. Welcome to the monthly World Cafe at North Edinburgh Arts Centre.
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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.
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By fay.young on January 10, 2010
The aim, inspired by the World Kitchen in Leith, is to celebrate good home cooking from many cultures.
Here is fresh and spicy food to revive your appetite after Christmas and New Year. In our first World Kitchen film, Mridu Thanki welcomes us into her kitchen to show us how to cook mushrooms in cream with [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen cookery films, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Feasts of India, home cooking, leith open space, Mridu Thanki, 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
