On Wednesday, I was lucky enough to get a ticket to TeaSaturday organised by Daniel Young of youngandfoodish fame and catered for by Nigella Lawson. Daniel Young is a food writer and critic from New York who now lives in London and organises brilliant pop up events such as the famous BurgerMonday.
The event was today, Saturday, at 2pm in Holburn in London.
We each got out own copies of Nigella's new book, Nigellissima, on arrival and afternoon tea prepared by Nigella (more on that below).
The recipes all come from the book and were for an an Italian inspired English afternoon tea
The afternoon tea was held at Andrew's cafe in Holburn, complete with old formica tables and everything.
The food was delicious and made entirely by Nigella and her assistant. An impressive feat given that there were two sittings of 60 or so people in each. My favourite was probably the panettone stuffing squares, closely followed by the Italian Christmas pudding cake.
Nigella and Daniel Young were charming hosts, I met some lovely people sitting at my table and every seemed to have a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. Definitely one of the perks of living in London!
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