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Goodbye Dad
Yesterday was my father’s funeral. My Dad was a cook and chef nearly all his working life. He entered the Navy, after a troubled upbringing, at the age of 16 starting as an assistant cook. Travelling...
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Lunch at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
My wife and I didn’t have a wedding list, we were just happy that people came and had a good time. However, lots of people chose to buy us something which was very kind. The upshot was that we got...
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Food Britannia off cuts: The first food blogger
Note: The follow is probably going to be cut from my forthcoming book – Food Britannia – for space and style reasons. However, rather than have it lie on the printing room floor as it were, I thought...
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The Ultra Local Box Scheme
The rise (and some might say fall) of the vegetable box scheme has been one of the hallmarks of the change in the way we get produce through our front doors in recent years. The problem for me with...
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Iron Chef UK
Culinary Super Heroes ready to take on all comers Iron chef, the hit Japanese → US culinary cage fight is finally coming to Channel 4 on April 26th. This is a foodie ‘Battle Royale’ with pride -as well...
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Pot Heston
In tonight’s episode of Heston’s Feasts things go back to the 70s. However that doesn’t mean a three day week, eating by candle lights, and the rubbish piled up in the street outside. Instead he’s...
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The Sportsman Birthday Lunch
The plaudits for The Sportsman in Seasalter near Whitstable, are legion. In a nutshell it’s a pub doing simply brilliant food. Many a diner has booked a day return to Whitstable, or trundled down the...
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The British Pie Awards…
…and the mysterious dissappearace of Elisabeth Luard. I (and my fellow judges) ate all the pies It is to Mrs Luard that I owe the slight queazy feeling in my stomach this evening. I was invited to be a...
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UdderFest: Raw Milk project
hollowlegs Yeah,it’s just drinking milk that makes me queasy.Love all other dairy products MathildeCuisine Can’t stand cold milk in my cereals either BribedwithFood *gags* This recent exchange about...
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Damson jam, damn good
Big Bertha, my biggest pan, nearly comes a cropper with the bumper crop of damsons from my inlaw’s damson tree this year. Molton hot jam, a baby crawling around the kitchen, what can possibly go...
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