A while ago, I embarked upon a contemporary magazine project focusing on food and wine. Armed with my new title of...
Poultry recipes
Coq au Riesling
Coq au Vin is the quintessential bistro dish that remains a sublime French country classic and an essential part of...
Chicken soup with egg-lemon sauce [Avgolemono]
Back in the seventies, whilst transitioning between impecunious art student and manqué sculptor, I was pleased to...
Poached Chicken in Tarragon Sauce
“If you really like chicken, you like it poached. But poaching takes no pity on inferior birds” Jean-Claude Miéral....
Samosas
Some years ago now, a few members of the family embarked upon the West Country equivalent of the Camino de Santiago in...
Chicken Chow Mein
“To the ruler the people are Heaven; to the people, food is Heaven” Kwan Tze. 700 BC Although we...
Chicken with Grapes and Sweet Wine
During my time as a wine importer I have visited scores, if not hundreds of wineries around the world. I have shivered...
Grilled Chicken [Gai Yang]
In a media-dominated culinary world where speed and convenience outweigh depth and tradition, Thai cooking is often...
Chicken and Broccoli gratin
On my shelves sit two little independent cookbooks that didn’t begin their life in a journalist’s kitchen, buttressing...
Roasted Chicken with Clementines and Arak
“I begin with the proposition that eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy...
Garlic Chicken [Poulet à l’àil]
Elisabeth Luard, in her absorbing book European Peasant Cookery, introduces one of my most treasured poultry dishes...
Coq au Vin
“I’m having fruit salad for dinner. Well it’s mostly grapes actually. OK, it’s all grapes. Fermented grapes. I’m...
Stock with Fergus
If you want British food at its finest, or should I say British country food at its finest, then you should head...
Roast Chicken
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral". Frank Lloyd Wright Readers of the...
Guinea Fowl
Over the years my family has occupied three separate houses across North Norfolk, all approximately equidistant from...