The Sugar Bar

If you’ve been on here long enough, you’ll know the foodies here call me Kid Diva. The name happened one day, evolving from a paired muffin/cookie business with a girlfriend, and just kinda stuck. And so has my foodblog since 2005.

I am a fairly busy 22 year old English Lit and Lang graduette currently reading a Masters and employed by American Apparel. I love rock, alternative, electro, disco & new wave revival music; pop art & photography; surrealism and deconstruction; Macbooks; Vivienne Westwood & Jun Takahashi; shoes; books; cats; electric guitars; cupcakes; Japan; the smell of books. And of course, I love food, and eating, and baking and spend quite a lot of my time drooling and making pots of tea. I wrote for a university literary magazine (where the best pieces in my humble opinion were written with loud music blaring and the brain a little tipsy) and worked under pen-name Madame Butterfly in the Beauty section of The Sanctuary paper. Now that that’s all in the past, I’m working towards the aim of being a writer one day whilst struggling through London streets with books in one hand and groceries in the other.

I enjoy a real treat whether it is at a posh restaurant, a family pub, a quirky book café, a side-street noodle stall with foldable chairs or a budget potluck meal with friends around the coffee table. My philosophy is that great food can be found anywhere, even in the dingiest corners of a university accommodation. I love good-looking food that tantalize the senses but can appreciate a simple but carefully executed dish, as the taste and company matter to me more. Hence, my dining and cooking motto - simple, unpretentious, homely and full of warmth. To me, its intention and purpose has more style than Lady Gaga’s shoulder pads (but oh bless her, I love her to pieces and shoulder pads too).

Everyday I fight bad hair, a sniffly nose and arsey commuters in the Big Smoke but many joys are found in The Sugar Bar and my journey through the Brave New World of food. If you fancy it, come dine with me. Nothing’s more essential, comforting and rewarding as having a good chow.

I welcome all comments, suggestions and feedback. It would be wonderful to hear from the people who bother reading my ‘chatting breeze’. You can reach me at : diva@sugarbar.org. Thank you for stopping by.