Humour me if you will, and see if you can come up with the author: “…a sort of convergence of all the senses – the awareness through touching, and also through smelling, hearing, seeing and tasting that something is ‘just right’…to know by pinching and judging...
“I’ve been picking it up and putting it down for weeks now. I can’t say I’ve actually cooked anything from it. More, what I’m doing is deciding whether I can live up to its exacting standards” So wrote poet and journalist James Fenton in the Independent newspaper...
Some years ago our son announced that he would, in line with previous years, be joining us in Norfolk for the Christmas period. On this particular occasion he would be bringing his delightful new partner – disconcertingly called Charlotte. I say disconcertingly,...
“If you really like chicken, you like it poached. But poaching takes no pity on inferior birds” Jean-Claude Miéral. Volailles Miéral, Montravel-en-Bresse If there’s one single dish that would be a challenge to live without, and would certainly score highly on the...
Looking back on my life in the kitchen I am forced to admit that of all the adventurous cuisines that I have elected to emulate, many have not been entirely successful or granted the unalloyed praise I quietly desired. Come to think of it, some of the run-of-the-mill...
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