Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen
A tale of 250 of my family’s favourite meals.
Falling in love with exciting food and wine is a swift and easy process, providing it daily, at home for my family, is a lot more demanding. Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen looks back on the successes and mishaps of a life spent casting around for culinary discoveries.
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Recipes
Classic Apple Pie
As a wine merchant I have undertaken a great deal of travelling, visiting wineries and vineyards across the globe. And although I have clocked up an awful lot of air miles, I no longer want my supper to have done the same. For the best part of human history, selecting...
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 that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps,...
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Sweet Spinach Pie [Torta dí Verdure]
Once upon a time, Tuscany was regarded as a relatively poor region, although that has changed dramatically with the recent influx of tourists and their appetite for second homes and bucolic post-Renaissance lifestyles. By the time the likes of Tony Blair, Sting, Brian...
Quiche Lorraine
A few notable dishes seem to engage us from a different time zone. Although celebrity chefs seem unable to resist adding their ‘riff’ on original recipes, some dishes just taste pleasantly old-fashioned. This one embodies a time before fusion and crossover cuisine, a...
Tomato Salad
“The real Provençal cuisine was essentially lived and spoken, but not written down. It remains in the memories and long established habits of grandmothers, and in the country’s more remote towns, where tourists with a dislike of garlic seldom stray” A Taste of...
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Pea Soup with Ham and Mint [Sopa de Guisantes]
“Pease pudding hot, Pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot Nine days old” English nursery rhyme circa: 1790 Pea and Ham soup has been served up under countless guises and has circled the globe almost continually since antiquity. The two principal storehouse...
Beef Tagine with Prunes
Tagine - ‘meaning stew, is a category of dish fundamental to cookery in Morocco. The same word appears in the name of the special earthenware cooking recipient - Tagine Slaoui - with a distinctive pointed cover in which it is cooked’. The Oxford Companion to Food....