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Nov 6, 2014 • Comments Closed So I have a new monthly episode called the Historical Bookshelf (listen here) on Cambridge105fm food show, Flavour. Each episode will look at an unusual, forgotten, or little known food book from my bookshelf. You can listen to the episode here, it’s the first thing in the show. Episode I features Bernard Darwin’s ‘Receipts and Recipes. Being a vade...
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Nov 5, 2014 • Comments Closed Travelling along and A-road this time of year and you can see them, especially now that autumn’s here properly and trees have begun to shed their leaves. Apple trees, dropping fruit all over the edge of the tarmac. I love seeing a fecund apple tree by the side of a road, thinking that years ago...
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Oct 29, 2014 • Comments Closed With great fanfare and a hot water crust my new book, the Men’s Pie Manual was launched in October, just in time for those that like to get their Christmas shopping done early. It’s been a joy to write, though things did get a little tricky when trying to make and photograph a gala pie...
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Oct 14, 2014 • Comments Closed They say everyone has a book inside them*, and writing about food has never been more popular than it is now. More and more people are breaking into food writing from blogs, businesses, or just through the need to tell a story. Consequently I’ll be running a Guardian Masterclass on non-fiction food writing on 15...
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Jul 3, 2014 • Comments Closed I finally snapped when a Sicilian accosted me in Tesco. “I’m new”, said a bottle of La Piazza red wine. The label featured a drawing of the eponymous piazza and I imagined lovers sitting by a fountain, olive groves, and the toil of the grapes growing under the grinding millstone of the hot Mediterranean sun. All...
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Apr 1, 2014 • Comments Closed Foraging was all the rage post-credit crunch. Fuelled by survivalist fantasies and a desire to get back to nature after years of decadence, people headed off into the countryside to reap nature’s bounty. But after a while who could be bothered with all that travelling out to the sticks? Not time-poor city folk, that’s for...
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Apr 1, 2014 • Comments Closed Unlike curry, or even Chinese food, fish and chips isn’t very nice when taken into work the next day for lunch and reheated in the office microwave. However, a few week’s ago fate threw me a challenge when I over-ordered… Read the rest on the delicious. blog.
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Feb 21, 2014 • Comments Closed From Cambridge to Cumbria, from ‘drunken’ roast duck to ham hock pie, here’s fare that’s just too good eat on your own Read more at ft.com
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Jan 31, 2014 • Comments Closed From handpicked salad leaves to chard, courgettes and runner beans, a list of the very best places to eat fresh. Read more at FT.com
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Jan 23, 2014 • Comments Closed Ever fancied making your own cheese? Well it's not that hard apparently. Here's my round up for the FT on five of the best cheese-making courses in the UK. Learn to make your own dairy products, from Camembert and pecorino to yoghurt and butter [Read the rest of the article at ft.com]
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Sep 6, 2013 • Comments Closed The news that the latest issue of The Good Pub Guide predict 'up to 4,000 pubs will close in the next year, but they are the ones "stuck in the 1980s" offering indifferent drink and food' was picked by just about every media outlet going, from the Guardian, to Epworth Bells and Crowle Advertiser . Sometimes stories catch...
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Aug 11, 2013 • Comments Closed Of all the weeks to go on holiday I picked the one which saw pretty much everyone in the UK food world attend a press conference to showcase the world's first 'test tube' burger. Not only did I miss that, but also the opportunity to rant about it on the airwaves, having to politely decline...
