Food

In the novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service we get to share Christmas Day with 007 after his narrow escape from Piz Gloria. He visits M’s house to report on Blofeld’s activities and is served roast turkey, plum pudding, a small  glass of old Marsala and most of a bottle of a bad Algerian wine that M […]

Right from the start Ian Fleming often treated us to James Bond’s meals in elaborate descriptions that helped label Bond – and Fleming – as either a gourmet or gourmand. The first time we are privy one of 007’s meals is in Casino Royale, when he dines with Vesper Lynd prior to high stakes baccarat against […]

The Dorchester has recently been offering a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon following the hotel’s appearance in the most recent James Bond novel, Solo and it is something I would have loved to experience. Sadly, a flight to London just for breakfast is a little too extravagant and so I’ve had to make do with […]

One of my favourite and most frequently used culinary insights from the James Bond books is the recipe for scrambled eggs from 007 in New York, originally from the US edition of Fleming’s collection of travel writing, Thrilling Cities. Author of the new Bond book Solo, William Boyd, writes his book having been inspired by the […]

The Dorchester hotel in London is offering “Breakfast With Bond” in Saturday 28th September to coincide with the publication of William Boyd’s James Bond novel Solo. The breakfast appears to be scrambled eggs and bacon from the photo accompanying the announcement on the Dorchester’s website, a meal that 007 eats at any time of the […]

Last night on the BBC’s long running MasterChef series, in which amateur chefs must up their game to professional standards to stand a chance of the MasterChef title, the semi-finalists were asked to serve dinner to 12 former Bond girls from across the 50 years of James Bond films. The episode sees Eunice Gayson, Shirley […]

I’ve been a fan of Timothy Ferriss ever since he published The 4-Hour Work Week back in 2007, and while I can understand why he might not be to everyone’s taste, his books do actually make you stop and think about things that you may have been taking granted for years; that can never be […]

The Mail Online today has an article taking a look at James Bond’s favourite foods. Covering such things as scrambled eggs, caviar, dressed crab, roast grouse, smoked salmon and lamb cutlets with asparagus, the article notes that thanks to rationing the meals described by Ian Fleming would have seemed impossible exotic to the average reader […]

Although an early reviewer labelled Ian Fleming’s books “sex, snobbery and sadism”, an article in The Independent re-evaluates 007’s relationship with food and drink. The article asks whether rather than being a snob he was instead a prototype foodie, loving to eat local, fresh produce wherever he finds himself in the world and dismissive of […]

As many of you know I recently published a book about James Bond’s drinks, available from Lulu.com, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. While browsing Lulu.com I came across another James Bond related book and ordered it immediately. Licence to Cook was written by Edward Biddulph and contains a selection of recipes from Ian Fleming’s books; it also […]