Hi,

This is the US Food and Wine Article

The writer Jen Murphy has work very hard for over 18 months to enable this and I want to publicly thank her for her persistence and hard work.

We met in Ireland and she was very perceptive and clear of what we are about and what she wanted out of the article.

Enjoy reading it.

Peter

The Cake Committee Inaugural Event

Hi,

It was a real dream come true moment for me yesterday.

A brief history. I was SO fed up with ceramics one day that I decided to buy a van with natasha Daintry and drive it round London selling cakes (might still happen!), and Brian my partner stepped in to say why don't you form a cake committee and get together friends to bake and sell cakes for charity.

BINGO!!

The Cake Committee was formed with Natasha Daintry, Dave Clarke, Jinny Ngui and I as the founding members, and then others joined later. With Brian Kennedy as the Chair.

As you can see the cakes are wonderful and the opening bar was set VERY high.

The invited friends all gathered and had a wonderful time eating too much of course and throughly enjoying themselves in the mean time.

What really moved me was:-

the effort that every one put in re the baking

and the tremendous response from those who attended

A BIG thank you for those who baked and came to eat, and for those of you who missed it

the next one is on the 18th October, and the Christmas one is on the 13th December.

All at Pullens Yard, Elephant and Castle

and we have been written up in

Chowhound: For Those Who Live to Eat

already and very favorably too.

Will keep you all posted as we approach the next one

DO look at

http://thecakecommittee.blogspot.com/

to keep up to date.

Peter

The Cake Committee

Together with 13 other KEEN bakers, I started The Cake Committee and would dearly love people to join the face-book page ( I know! sad old git), well the most active member is Jinny and she is young and hip, she set up the FB page.

it is for us bakers and feeders to get our 'fix' and also collect money for good causes

1st meeting is

16th Aug, 09 2nd is 18th Oct, 09 and CHRISTMAS is 13th Dec, 09

all the the Pullens Community centre at Iliffe yard, Crampton St. London SE17 3BT

Peter

The coolest bar in London

Allow me to name drop re Franks Campari Bar

This is one of the coolest venue I have been to for a long time.

It is in Peckham, on the multiplex multi story car-park.

The brain child of Hannah Barry, with the structure designed by Paloma Gormley (daughter of sculptor Antony), food supplied by Frank, who is the grandson of the food writer Arabella Boxer.

You can be cynical and think it is all connections and no substance, well that will be VERY wrong! Great coffee, tea, and food. all at great prices and the view on the top of the structure is just divine, so is the art.

I LOVE the route to the bar, you have to have faith to believe that the this smelly dark lift will work, let alone it will get you somewhere.

Have faith and trust and you will be rewarded.

Do go as it is a pop up ending on the 30th September, 09

Peter

CLAY

A serious gallery like Bernard Jacobson in Cork street is showing ceramics, you know that the medium has arrived.

The show is ok, "artisits" showing clay work, over all it is SO worth seeing .

MONGAI

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS?

You cut this open and eat the inside (orange) raw, really delicious, but BOY is it "hard core" looking

P

more food

Temple food then followed by the most amazing cake shop.

Have to say the chocolate cake looked wonderful

BUT not as tasty as it looks

So good looks get you halfway there, but it's substance that counts

P