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Richard McComb

Richard McComb

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Travel: Who dares swims on Cote Vermeille

IT’S amazing how quickly apparent disaster can turn to triumph.Read

Food and Drink: Curry champ was to the balti born

IF AWARDS were bestowed for services to eating baltis, Andy Munro would be a shoe in – with a special commendation.Read

Food and Drink: Hobby is the icing on Caroline's cake

IT started as a bit of fun, as a way of helping out relatives and friends when birthdays, anniversaries and weddings came around.Read

Food and Drink: Rising stars on a culinary crusade

THEY’VE been given a box containing vegetables and a chicken – and told to cook the dish of their lives.Read

Birmingham chef Helen Evans wins new cookery competition

THEY’VE been given a box containing vegetables and a chicken – and told to cook the dish of their lives.Read

Restaurant line-up unveiled for Taste of Birmingham food festival

INNOVATIVE chefs at some of the city’s newest restaurants will showcase their talents at this year’s Taste of Birmingham food festival.Read

Bullring has tasty treats for foodies

VISITORS to the Bullring will get the opportunity to try delicious regionally-produced food and drink as part of a campaign to promote the quality and diversity of produce made in the West Midlands.Read

Food and Drink: Have a vine time at Bordeaux bash

A CAREER in wine was the last thing on Sonia Colwell’s mind when she and her family upped sticks and quit Solihull for a new life in France.Read

Food and Drink: Sudha tests mettle against iron chefs

SUDHA Shankar Saha is a gifted Indian chef with a talent underlined by a steely determination.Read

Food and Drink: Bolognese bother for Michelin chef

MICHELIN-starred chef Glynn Purnell has a major problem on his very talented hands.Read

Food and Drink: Please, miss, can I have some more?

WHEN I walk into the kitchen, head chef Liz Bourbonneux is chopping leeks and courgettes for a vegetable julienne.Read

Food and Drink: Meet Brum's first Professor of Food

FROM the back streets of Chelmsley Wood to being made Birmingham’s first professor of food, David Colcombe’s career has come to the boil nicely.Read

Food and Drink: Michelin star goal for top NEC chef

PAUL Gould, executive head chef for the NEC Group, likes a culinary challenge.Read

Food and Drink: Gastro Brum gets Swedish food tips

IN A little over four months, Birmingham will play host to one of the most prestigious gatherings of international chefs.Read

Food and Drink: Yak snack gives Stefan the willies

FOOD explorer Stefan Gates has eaten most things in the name of culinary investigation, including all manner of jungle critters.Read

Food and Drink: The Hairy Bikers drop by for homemade treats

FOR a woman who hated cookery lessons at school, she hasn’t done bad – having two of the country’s most popular TV chefs rev up to her front door.Read

Food and Drink: Batter matters in city's love of cod

TASTE, like beauty, is subjective so it’s impossible to say what makes the perfect chip.Read

Food and Drink: Put some 'tiger' in your tank

WHAT do Hollywood A-listers Demi Moore and Tom Cruise have in common with Smethwick’s own Julie Walters?Read

Travel: It’s a totally tropical taste

REMOVING my knee-high flight socks, I dipped my jet-lagged toes into the moonlit Caribbean Sea and learned one of life’s important lessons: sometimes you win when you lose.Read

Food and Drink: More please, but hold the twizzlers

CAMPAIGNERS meeting in Birmingham claim Britain needs to launch action on the scale of a war effort to tackle the nation’s food problems.Read

Author Profile

Richard McComb is a columnist, writer and restaurant critic for The Birmingham Post. Likes: Stevie Wonder (1963-1982 output); taking the long view; beaches; jumpers for goalposts. Dislikes: (Amongst others) enablement; spitting; the short straw; double maths.