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Salt 15 Jan 2013 | 09:18 pm
‘I just love, you know, cooking a steak’ And I just love that. A decorated, game changing London Chef, saying THAT. Some background: The John Salt in Islington hired uber culinary whizz kid Ben Sp...
Bully 8 Nov 2012 | 07:20 pm
I nearly didn’t write this. I nearly thought ‘let it go, who cares…. It will be forgotten by tomorrow’, but it’s stuck in my craw like an errant herring bone. Followers of this blog (Ha!) will know ...
Daughter, daughter. 1 Feb 2012 | 07:55 am
But YOU want a TV show!’ ‘Of COURSE your piss is pickled! But no one else cares- she has great rack and sultry eyes! You’re just jealous cos you’re not purdey’. I’m not you know. Jealous. Or for tha...
Date 29 Jan 2012 | 04:17 am
Last night I went on a date with my fiancee. And on the 16th of September 2010 I wrote half a blog that I never finished and never published because it was sad. I have just found it. On the 15th of S...
Private 27 Oct 2011 | 08:39 pm
The Secret diary of a London private chef 10pm: I sit on the warm mahogany toilet seat with my head between by knees and count to ten as a bead of sweat runs down the bridge of my nose and falls in ...
Bad Taste of London 22 Jun 2011 | 12:12 am
You will notice that I haven’t written much recently. This is because I am happy with my lot. I am content rather than miserable, chirpy not blue. And it is an absolute bastard for the creative proces...
Liar 18 May 2011 | 10:14 pm
I had foie gras stuffed into a sausage last night. At Bocca di Lupo in Soho. I’d love to tell you all about it but you know already. It must be the most reviewed restaurant of the last couple of years...
Smile 15 Jan 2011 | 09:05 am
It’s barely perceptible. It crosses my face in a flutter of wings and is gone before you knew it was there. I might be alone, I might be with people. But I know it when it comes because it warms me u...
Shipped 12 Jan 2011 | 07:33 am
Quite a week this. I am a lucky boy. I say boy. I am thirty four on Thursday and I now spend longer shaving my ear lobes than I do funking up my hair. Such is my life. My shopping lists now invariabl...
Me Man 18 Nov 2010 | 03:07 am
Deep breath. Ready? My name is Luke Mackay and I am thirty three years old. And yesterday I bought my first ever tool. And my second. Should you be kind enough to be interested, my purchased tools of...