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...
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...
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”. Edmund Burke. 1729-97 When a sanguine publisher suggested I write a fashionably contextualised book based on East Anglian cuisine with the focus on ingredients, terroir and...
“Simple food does not necessarily mean quick food or even easy food, though it can be both. Keeping it simple means being pure in effect – finding natural rhythms and balances allowing food to taste of itself. Simple food does not hide behind a sauce of...
Eastern Daily Press. April 2022. Words Stacia Briggs. Photos Brittany Woodman. Sometimes the best ideas emerge from the worst of times – when a cancer diagnosis shook Keith Reeves’s world, it didn’t take him long to create something positive from a negative. Firstly,...
