“All sorrows are less with bread” Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote As I have mentioned elsewhere on this site, the saintly Delia Smith has a knack of making certain recipes appear seamless, none more so than this Irish soda bread. A potential nemesis to our...
If Bordeaux wine estates are in the grip of absentee landlords and investment trusts, Burgundy (Bourgogne) in eastern France remains a land where small farmers still maintain their own vineyards. However due to the escalation in wine prices these days, those same...
“I at last realised that eating was a spiritual function and that meat, bread and wine were the raw materials from which the mind is made.” From the novel Zorba the Greek. Nikos Kazantzakis. In the 2002 film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the female lead and...
“A technological triumph, factory bread may be. Taste it has none. Should it be called bread?” Elizabeth David. English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1971) Across the culinary television schedules from 1955 until now, we have been subjected to an array of...
“…you get a pretty good plate of food – and the Bellinis are just fine. They just cost a fuck of a lot”. Anthony Bourdain on Harry’s Bar. It is far too long since I have squeezed around a table at Harry’s bar in Venice. At my last visit, a then...
