About
WHO IS THE LONDON FOODIE IN NEW YORK?
My name’s Anna Helm-Baxter and I’m the writer behind London Foodie in New York- a blog about culinary rule-breaking and saving the reputation of British food from across the pond! I’m 27 years old half-brit/half yank, which basically makes me a mutt with a confused accent. And this mutt likes to cook and eat. I trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, where I first got in the habit of rule-breaking. I now live and work as a food stylist and occasionally paid food writer in New York.
WHY WRITE ABOUT FOOD?
There is a generation of young men and women out there who have grown up not learning how to cook but wanting to know how. I write because I believe that it’s possible to become a great cook or just a somebody who can put dinner on the table for friends/family without formal training. People don’t cook because they don’t have time and because they are scared. My recipes are easy, quick- my sister calls them: I can-do that recipes! There are recipes perfect for a work night when you want something quick and healthy and there are indulgent deserts to take along to a weekend potluck and impress your friends with. Cooking isn’t half as hard as one might think- and I try to make my recipes flexible allowing for you to alternate ingredients without thinking it might make the recipe fail. And on the note of failure I should add that some of my greatest successes were the result of what I thought might be a failure.
THINGS I LOVE….
Sucking on mango seeds- you have to go at it and just hope you don’t loose too many of the juices to your chin. Eating Marmite with peanut butter- try it, I promise it will change your life. Scraping the sides of a lasagna dish after the lasagnas been eaten- disgusting, I know but I just can’t resist those crispy burnt edges of cheese. Raspberries. Baking. Eating with friends.
THINGS I HATE….
Corn stuck in my teeth, shucking corn, high fructose corn syrup (despite the theme, I do not hate corn!). Okra. Really bitter coffee. Desserts that are too sweet. Cookbooks without pictures. People canceling at the last minute. Long recipes. Foams (unless it’s on my cappuccino).
RECIPES
All recipes , unless mentioned are photographed at home using a Canon SD1000 camera or most recently my Canon Rebel XLS. I test all of my recipes using the metric system and more recently in cups. Please see the notes page for further explanations on how I test my recipes. If you do not recognise an ingredient, it is probably because like my spelling and grammar I try to stick to using English English. Although, these days I do sometimes forget what is English and what is American so please see my translations page for further guidance.
COMMENTS
Please feel free to get in contact with me and comment on any recipes that you have tried or ones that you would like to see more/less of. I try to respond to all comments.
Please enjoy, critisise and tell me where I can improve.
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well, your writing is great and very enjoyable to read. Best of luck with this blog, you never know what comes of it or whom may be reading it. I like the Welly Boots and Chocolate Flapjacks blog, very entertaining.. WHat is the best time to call you, I want to speak with you about some work, an idea that has been going on for about a month, i forgot to mention it to you when I saw you at Kelly’s. talk to you soon
michael
Oh, I just love your stories. I want to come to NYC and have you cook for me.
Kisses
wicked!! off to get all the ingredients for the feta salad, love and kisses N xx
Hello!
Ever since we visited friends up in Toronto I am looking to locate a store in NYC that sells frozen Yorkshire Puddings and also Crumpets. Any suggestions???
Thanks.
Hi cici- im going to Myers of Keswick today so i will look out for frozen yorkshire puds and crumpets- i have a recipe online for yorkshire puds though if you’re feeling daring!!
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Ah, thank god for this blog! It’s about time I found this. Recipe for chip shop curry anyone?? – Thanks.
Hi Anna,
Torrey and I had a great time meeting you and Don at the backyard party.
I wanted to invite you both to Barbes, on the F in Park Slope, tonight at 8pm, my band Norden Bombsight is playing in back. There’s a $10 cover I’m afraid.
Rachael
Hi Anna
Thanks heaps for your blog, is great and actually pretty inspirational. I am currently looking at food styling as a career and wanted to know if you had any bits of advice. Also what course was it that you did at Leiths?
Thanks heaps, is always great reading your blogs, dying to try out the oatmeal, choc chip and avocado cookies, sound yum!!
Kind Regards
Nic
The pumpkin muffins look like something that I’m going to try over the weekend. Its amazing to see that a fellow person-working-in-New-York was the one that posted up the recipe. Now I just hope that I don’t screw it up!
Hi Anna,
I came across your blog while attempting to research food styling work in London. Ironically, I am an American food lover (from just outside NYC), whose been living in Sydney for a few years, and will be moving to London in 2-3 months.
Would you mind if I asked you a few questions about the food media industry in London? It would be incredibly helpful as I have no contacts in Londontown….
Hope to hear from you soon!
Maddy
PS – I look forward to testing out your Yorkshire puddings when I land and since you’re in NY, do you think you could create a Black and White cookie recipe? I have never seen one in Sydney…
lovely website. gorgeous photos. do you use the kit lens with your canon rebel or did you buy the macro lens, too?
sos- thanks so much! I’ve always thought my photos were pretty rubbish! I just use the kit lens- I’ve been thinking of investing in a macro lens but recently bought a tripod which has helped loads.
Loving your site!! As an English/Australian living in NY, I understand your confusion!! Have to say, Vegemite & peanut butter far outweighs the marmite equivalent!
Hey Anna!!
I read about you and your ideas in the new Jamie Oliver magazine, and had immediately to try out a recipe (the others will follow!)…
Your work about making sweet stuiff sweet with something else than industrial sugar (mostly) is a great great great idea.
Please go on with that, I am gonna check out your website.
I already began to modify your recipes (in my mind) with other stuff -except sugar, and it`s so interesting! You inspired me, thank you for that.
You can jump on my Foodblog, if you want, and you will find photos of on of your recipes (I didn`t get the melty core inside, what a pitty, but it was great!-probably you have a hint for me).
I linked to your website on that article.
>> http://culinariyumm.blogspot.com/
(hope, this is not seen as advertisment
))
Thank u for inspiration,
love from Hamburg, Germany!
*Fabia*
Hi Anna,
I also spotted your blog in the german Jamie Oliver Magazine – I like it very much! The only problem is, that it seems to spread a virus (worm, windows, which hides the harddrive and tells me to pay for “repairing”) via Java. Maybe you could contact your blog hoster, so I can read your blog without having to set up my netbook again
Thanks for the great recipes,
Marie
sorry about that! my site picked up a virus- all sorted now and thanks for visiting!
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