A while ago, I embarked upon a contemporary magazine project focusing on food and wine. Armed with my new title of Editor-in-Chief – and pausing only briefly to lower the bar within the elevated world of publishing – spontaneous plans were drawn up to...
When Douglas Adams first introduced us to the world of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Marvin the Paranoid Android, courtesy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy science-fiction franchise was born. That was in 1979. Nearly a decade later, in 1987, a more...
Coq au Vin is the quintessential bistro dish that remains a sublime French country classic and an essential part of what was once known as cuisine paysanne, a style of cuisine with which we may all have to become better acquainted given the predicted trajectory of...
“A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde Whilst revisiting a charming recipe with which to provide my daily bread (Breakfast Baps – Elizabeth David’s oft overlooked gem in her publication English Bread and Yeast Cookery of...
“O Lord God, when thou givest to thy servants to endevour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same, until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory…”Sir Francis Drake Early...
