Edible Experiences Newsletter - 11 Sep 2012

Hello lovely foodies!

Hope you've been enjoying the sunshine-filled days and clear crisp nights! We also hope you will enjoy a  few new features on the website that we built over the summer:

• Waitlist - You can now join a waitlist for a sold out event. If new or cancelled tickets are released, you automatically receive an email notification. No more frantic emails to hosts and hoping that they remember you!
  
  
• Self-service cancellations - Your booking confirmation emails and your EE account page will now show you how to cancel your bookings without having to email the host orEdible Experiences.
  
  
• Resale of late-cancellation tickets - If you need to cancel your tickets after the event's refund deadline, we will now try to re-sell your tickets if the event is otherwise sold out. If we manage to re-sell your tickets, we will give you a refund. 
  
  
• Share your bookings and event reviews on Facebook - Going to a fun foodie event? Just had a fabulous time at one? You can now tell your friends on Facebook. Just look for the big blue Facebook icon after you've made a booking or written a review. Your hosts would really appreciate your support by spreading the word!

Supperheroes

Great news on our Supperheroes supperclub series in partnership with Action Against Hunger! UKAID is matching all donations made between September and November, so funds raised by you and our Supperheroes will help TWICE the number of malnourished children in crisis locations.

And remember! If you attend 3 or more Supperhero events, you stand to win some fabulous Foodie prizes from Unearthed, The Butchery Ltd and School of Wok. 

So, which Supperheroes do you want to get fed by this month?

• Wild Serai hosts a Malaysian Nyonya feast in New Malden - Sat 15 Sep
• Darjeeling Express hosts an Indian street food Bollywood party in Kensington and Chelsea - Sat 15 Sep
• Backdoor Kitchen and Flavours of Spain team up to host an Italian and Spanish fundraising dinner for Action Against Hunger in Bermondsey - Sun 16 Sep
• The Lazy Baker takes guests through a surprising Irish soda bread menu in Islington - Sat 22 Sep
• Lisa's Jamaican Kitchen hosts a Jamaican feast in Surrey Quays - Sat 29 Sep

Sunday Feasts in Covent Garden

Sunday Feasts got off to a great start - Plusixfive's Singaporean feast and Budaya Kusina's Filipino-Malaysian feast both fed full houses! Here's what we've got lined up next:

• Fab Cooking and Yuki's Kitchen team up to put on a Peruvian-Japanese feast - Sun 30 Sep
• Darjeeling Express and Pistachio Rose team up to host a British-Raj feast - Sun 7 Oct
• Flavours of Spain showcase a feast from their native Galicia - Sun 14 Oct

Check out Sunday Feasts press coverage by London Pop Ups, We Are Pop Up, The Upcoming, Foodpedia, and London Unattached 

September Supperclubs and Popups

• Yummy Choo hosts a Mauritian supper in Brixton - Sat 15 Sep
• Table for Ten serves up a Vietnamese feast with killer cocktails in Whitechapel - Sat 15 Sep
• One Table Italian supperclub (helmed by Chris, a Bocca di Lupo alum) hosts its debut supper in Rotherhithe - Sat 15 Sep
• Russian Revels host a midweek mingling party in Charing Cross - Wed 19 Sep
• Scratch Secret Suppers host a 7 course tasting menu to welcome autumn - Fri 21 Sep + Sat 22 Sep
• White Room Supper Club hosts a bright orange Indian summer dinner- Fri 28 Sep
• The Sharing Supperclub hosts a Tuscan evening in South Woodford - Sat 29 Sep
• Backdoor Kitchen celebrates their Italian chef's birthday by... cooking up a storm for you! - Sat 29 Sep

Not Your Usual Wine Tasting

If you think wine tastings are stuffy swish-and-spit affairs, filled with tasting notes of ingredients you've never tasted before anyway, you need to meet the refreshing team from A Grape Night In. They had me at "This sav-blanc is sometimes called chav-blanc - one guest told us it tasted of football WAGs"

A Grape Night In is hosting an Oktoberfest-themed winetasting in Brixton on Sun 16 Sep (for the beer lover in your life). On Wed 26 Sep it'll be Oscar-themed - you'll be describing wines via movies in Clapham! 

Foodie Walking Tours

Discover Mayfair and Chelsea's hidden artisan chocolate gems with Chocolate Ecstasy Tours - 15, 16, 22, 23, 30 Sep

Baking and Dessert Classes

• Craft Cakes in Hampstead
  • Make French macarons - Thu 13 Sep
  • Make sugar floral decorations for celebration cakes - Sat 15 Sep
  • Make and decorate cupcakes - Tue 25 Sep
  • Decorate celebration cakes - Thu 27 Sep
    
    
• Make exotic Carribbean-flavoured chocolates with Carib Gourmet in Shoreditch - Sat 15 Sep and Sat 13 Oct
  
  
• Learn how to make no-knead bread with Harrington's Kitchen in Beckenham BR3 - 22 + 29 Sep

Cooking Classes

• Learn how to make Indian street food treats with Absolute Indian in Islington - Sat 22 Sep
• Learn the art of autumn produce preserving with Culinary Anthropologist in Highbury - Sat 6 Oct
• Spend a day learning how to cook a full Caribbean meal and mix island-vibe cocktails with Carib Gourmet in Shoreditch - Sat 13 Oct
• Learn how to translate Noma's New-Nordic approach to cooking to your home kitchen with Culinary Anthropologistand CPH Good Food in Highbury - Sat, Sun 20+21 Oct

Chinese Cooking Class -- Special-Offer for our Mailing List Subscribers!

The team behind the wildly popular Two Hungry Girls supperclub are starting to offer cooking classes next month. This class focuses on dishes that are simple to create, yet use quintessential Chinese cooking techniques to bring out full & authentic flavours. You will learn how to use Chinese sauces and flavourings, classic & contemporary food presentation and cultural significances to a typical Chinese menu.  At the end of the class you will share & savour the exquisite meal you've prepared with new found friends before taking your recipe cards home.

The menu:

Lychee Sangria (Welcome Drink)

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Chilled Tofu with Black Sesame & Century Egg Sauce

Grilled Pork/Beef in Lemongrass Skewers

Braised Seasonal Greens

Steamed Seabass with Spring Onion & Ginger/Flash Fried Spicy Hunanese-Style Beef

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All served with Steamed Jasmine Rice

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Chinese Dessert Surprise (Prepared by THG)

When: 2 or 16 Oct. 6.30 - 9.30pm

Where: Private residence in Kentish Town

Price: Special introductory offer of £40 

 

If interested, simply reply to this email (wenlinsoh (at) edibleexperience.com), so that we can ensure you get the special introductory price.

Recent Blog Reviews

How are our hosts doing? When you tell us, our whole community benefits!

• The Feel-food Foodbook brunches with Flavours of Spainsupperclub
• The F-World falls in love with Fed by Tang Hong Kong supperclub
• Wine and Food Tours with a Twist gets a taste of Kerala at a cooking class with Absolute Indian
• Table for One says Darjeeling Express supperclub's food makes her heart sing

Press Mentions

And to cap off this newsletter... a couple of press mentions we're plenty chuffed about!

• We get interviewed by ONFM's Food for Thought radio show host Anjul Dutt
• Malaysia's New Straits Times describes Edible Experiencesas many diners' "first point of contact" with the supperclub scene.

That's all for this time around. Know someone who might enjoy what we do? Forward this newsletter to them! 

Keep on tasting!

Wen and Amir