“…take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,...
“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food”. WC Fields I’m keen to get a few things cleared up. There are many myths linked to wine drinking that continue to drift aimlessly on the trade winds. They are, more often than not, linked directly to what and how...
Living and working across the East Anglian countryside, the game season offers something approaching an empathetic idea of free-range dining, yet on a rising tide of good intentions it can frequently prompt a barrage of rural grumbling. From the beginning of October...
Of all my food fantasies, I’ve long harboured a wish to become a discriminating, sharp-eyed, wild mushroom gatherer. But whether you know me or not, I can verify that I come nowhere near to fulfilling any part of that particular job description. I dream idly of being...
“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own” – Michel de Montaigne Over the years I have accumulated an awful lot of cookbooks. I buy and read them in the same way young children once devoured...