Author Archives: Kim Batty
The Food Lab: Pop-up Diner
I’ve been to a few pop-up diners and one of the things I like about them is that it feels like you’re at a mate’s fancy dinner party in their…
Garlic
We all know that garlic is good for us, but in an abstract way, like going for a walk or ‘cooking from fresh’. Hate that saying - it seems to…
If Music Be The Food Of Love, I’m Out Of Luck
I haven’t got any musical talent and I don’t mind. Which reminds me of a programme I saw about overweight kids. They asked a girl whether she was concerned about…
Cynicism and soup
My mate told me that there’s now Janu-hairy, encouraging women to let their armpit hair grow for charity. I didn’t realise, I could have raised millions by now. I can’t…
The very almost Batty food quiz 2018
Here in the soufflé and whisk of Christmas cheer I have decided to give you something,. I know, iI know, all you have done is taken, but I’m so generous,…
Eat Your Mummy With Some Herbs
It’s that time of year when we all start considering the more horrible, ghastly side of this multiverse. The one where the ghost of your Aunt Mildred is still rattling…
Purple Velvet, In Your Face
Beetroot is the super hero of any diet, diving through with antioxidants, fibre, Vitamin A and C. Let’s powerhouse through to Boctober or Beetrember, or one of those combined with…
Hairy Sister
I’ve just been on holiday in Espana. Yes, I have, for two weeks doing sod all other than wondering what I wanted for dinner and whether I had the energy…
A fever that’s so hard to bear
I have been investigating food that helps prevent sunburn. Yes, prevent, that means before one turns into the Swiss flag, one could employ some measures to be more like that…
Burn my Cucumber
“It’s hard being hot,” that’s what the chilli says to the bell pepper, “People are either obsessed with you, or dislike you and ignore you at parties.” The bell pepper…
Rempah Malaysian Kitchen
So I was pootling around in my car, doing my delivering as I do and lost in my own thoughts, obsessing about things that I can’t change, like my carpets…
Goat Ledge – Why the big plaice?
If you weren’t on the hill this Bank Holiday, pretending the heat was fun or down amongst the bikes, or on the pier for Appetite, or just in your garden…
I’m so green, I married a lawnmower
Here in the land of food we are celebrating greenness. Food that is so green, you can feel the envy ooze out of it and corrupt your innocent satisfied mind,…
It really is Time2Dance
Academy Time 2 Dance reached its 16th birthday at the White Rock, this February. It’s a huge, three-day dance extravaganza involving over 870 students, from 32 schools and numerous community…
The Restoration
Here in the land of food, or Foodland, we’re exploring the terrain of restorative food and drink. Think of your body as a broken, out-of-date, worm-holed mansion, desperate for a…
Vegan Drop Pancakes with Creme Fraiche and berries
This a tried and tested recipe that my sister makes regularly for her cross-pollinated veggie and vegan family. She made them for my daughter on her birthday, they wolfed them…
It’s all about you, you, you and a little bit me
What a transition befalls us now, throw away your dried apricot of a January and soak up the lava of a fully enriched Fat Tuesday. It’s all about the restocking…
Hastings Pride Wants You
Artwork by Andre Pejic This year’s Hastings Pride is celebrating the Summer of Love; it’s been 50 years since people donned their flairs, dropped their weapons and celebrated love. It…
Telling Stories
After another excellent Storytelling Festival, I do a bit of Q n A with 18 hours………. How did the Storytelling Festival start? The festival was started in 2011 by…
I Love Mel
“ When I was 5, I used to say, I’m going to go to the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore” said Mel Simone Elliot. And so she did.…
Fill Her Up Mate
Why not spend a Christmassy Sunday down at Borough Wines, making your own modern felt Christmas stocking with Michelle, from Merchant and Mills, whilst supping on warm mulled wine and…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Wine not?
Kim Batty discovers Borough Wines Beers and Books It was only a whisper of time ago that going to the America Ground and White Rock area, was surviving the ever-giving…
Sublimation of the Tattoo
Kate Renwick Twenty-two years ago whilst completing my Foundation course, I was embarking on an introductory project set by the University I was to attend that September on the subject…
Past meets future at Source skate park
To attend the opening of the skatepark I had to park on the promenade (well, “had to” might not be entirely true). A small Hastings goal of mine achieved, cheekily…