Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen
A tale of 250 of my family’s favourite meals.
Falling in love with exciting food and wine is a swift and easy process, providing it daily, at home for my family, is a lot more demanding. Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen looks back on the successes and mishaps of a life spent casting around for culinary discoveries.
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Notes
Don’t tell me how to run my art school
Don't tell me how to run my art school is a new publication recording the unfolding events of an art school in Guilford in 1968. It is written by...
Upbeat Update
Eastern Daily Press. April 2022. Words Stacia Briggs. Photos Brittany Woodman. Sometimes the best ideas emerge from the worst of times – when a...
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"What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are happy in: Where can we live but days?"...
Recipes
Pain de Campagne
I have for some time laboured under the twin beliefs that everyone who worked their own kitchen should fashion some home baked bread once in a while and that all shop-bought loaves teetered on the brink of the inedible. Well it turned out that some modification of...
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
Blackadder: “Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?” Baldrick: “Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron”. In my determined quest to reduce our household consumption of meat, treating it as an occasional pleasure rather than a daily expectation, I...
Picallili
A lady friend - refined, middleclass stock, Dubarry wellies in season and a penchant for Mercedes estates - frequently ‘throws’ dinner parties. She never deigns to provide simple suppers. We bump into each other on occasion at a nearby Country Market. Part farmer’s...
A Norfolk cottage pie
Stendhal (19th century French writer and diarist) “The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same”. On the subject of recipes - words matter. They serve to define expectation. Shepherd's pie or Cottage pie, is there a...
Rich Pigeon Pâté
Genesis 1:26. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Not wishing...
Tinned sardines and Pasta con le Sarde
🎵Oh for the life of a sardine That is the life for me Cavorting and spawning every morning Under the deep blue sea. To have no fear for storm or gale Oh to chase the tail of a whale Oh for the life of a sardine, That is the life for me. 🎵 From the song...
Sorrel soup
The leaves ‘sharpened the appetite, strengthened the heart, and gave so great a sharpness to a salad…that it should never be omitted” John Evelyn 1620 – 1706 That the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence is a prosaic reduction of Ovid’s earlier, more...