As a kid, we would all tuck into foods that, perhaps, we don’t really indulge in as adults anymore. Sometimes it’s because we outgrow them and other times it’s because they were discontinued and we forgot about them. Well fear not my friends because one of the nation’s favourites is soon to be back in Supermarkets

So Marco Pierre White is to be a brand ambassador for Bernard Mathews Turkeys and the sound of bloggers and sanctimonious columnists having hissy fits is deafening. You’d have thought they would have exhausted their anger when MPW started advertising stock cubes, but no there is still plenty of bile to spare. Honestly you’d have thought he’d been caught eating Panda, not simply earning a few quid for himself

There’s still time to get to Islington and check out this year’s Dolce Vita, the Italian Festival in London.You can spend all day wandering the stands and the demos and if you buy ‘a little book of indulgences’ you get ten tickets for ‘limited edition’ experiences such as a comparative wine tasting, an olive oil tasting and a goodie bag from Seeds of Italy. It costs £10 on top of the entrance ticket and is a good

You leave the office for half an hour and when you come back you’re told there’s been a delivery of Gail’s Hot Cross buns in your absence. You ask where they are and everyone stares resolutely at their screens while discreetly brushing crumbs off their keyboard. Is this a sackable offence? It should be.

Last night we had a meal that is only available for three days more. Pino Lavarra, executive chef of the two Michelin starred Rossellini’s restaurant at Palazzo Sasso in Ravello on the Amalfi coast, is at Brunello at The Baglioni Hotel as part of a year long exchange of chefs.

Recently opened following a refurbishment and a change of name, from ‘The Farm’, My Dining Room is the latest gastro pub to open in fulham. Together with other media types I was invited along, following its recent launch, to sample some of the dishes from their menu andI was favourably impressed with what I tasted.

I have never drunk so much ginger beer in one sitting in my life. Even the waiters at Benares are barely concealing their mirth as they crack open yet another bottle of Crabbies to pour into my glass. ‘Do you drink it yourself?’ I ask one of them ‘Oh no!’ he replies, horrified, then mindful of the fact his boss Atul Kochhar head chef at this award winning Indian restaurant is lending his name to the product, quickly explains his defiant rejection. ‘I am a Muslim!’

With our glasses of chilled bubbly in hand we proceeded to explore this latest venture of the V8 group, We wandered through this newly fashioned eatery, struck by the bold vibrant decor, with its strong colour palate softened by yards of sheer curtaining. It all comes together well.

If you were looking for London’s food writers on Monday night, you’d have found most of them in Pizza Express in Greek Street, Soho. They weren’t there because they all suddenly got the munchies for an American Hot, they were there because Francesco Mazzei was.

Set up by enterprising mother of two Salima Manji, the Asian Dinner Club aims to get professional single Asians together over food and wine. Anita Pati finds though that she’s the only one actually eating as the high-flyers are networking too hard. All the more tasty cheese for her, then.