“To the ruler the people are Heaven; to the people, food is Heaven” Kwan Tze. 700 BC Although we unwittingly manage to obfuscate many of the origins of our cuisine, usually at the expense of diversity, some in the UK have become determinedly proud of our renewed place...
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting…” From Jumpers by Tom Stoppard With a year of lock-ins, lock-downs and lock outs – the last being my cunning reference to the Brexit débâcle, although using a French term might appear downright impolite at...
“It is lucky to eat as many pies as possible before Christmas, as says the dweller in London, or is the more elaborate custom found in Yorkshire more correct? The writer of this book, being a Yorkshire woman, is quite sure that it is not correct to eat mince pies...
“There is no man however wise”, he said to me, “who has not at some time in his youth said things or even led a life of which his memory is disagreeable and which he would wish to be abolished. But he absolutely should not regret it, because he can’t be assured of...
When just out of college, and income was in short supply, I loved to eat out. Ironically, as time passed, with a growing family and a burgeoning income, I chose to eat more at home. I had discovered a desire to cook and I began to teach myself the rudiments of...
