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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Pierogi
Frank Muir was a raconteur, comedy writer and former Head of Comedy at the BBC. In a TV interview, when asked as to his faith he replied “I’m a lapsed agnostic”. His tongue-in-cheek proclamations always managed to leave the synopsis hanging... Mr Muir’s dilemma...
Prawns with brown bread and butter
During the Second World War my father joined the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). Slow to engage and derided by some neighbours for not leaving for the ‘front’, his role as a domestic fireman had yet to be tested. The Blitz, which was soon to kill so many of his comrades...
Flatbread. Coca De Azúcar con Piñones y Anís
If Britain was regarded as the grain sack of the Roman Empire, then Spain was its bakery. Of all the early provinces of Rome, the bakers of Spain and Portugal (Iberia in Roman days) were regarded as the most accomplished in Europe. As with the dining tables of modern...
Salmon Fish Cakes with Lemon Sauce
At a time in the late ‘70’s when many chefs were still making their names following the parables espoused by Elizabeth David and her love affair of all things French, and home-cooking was seen as decidedly lacklustre, a young Gary Rhodes set his focus on overlooked...
Focaccia
“Visitors to Liguria may perhaps be classified into six main groups; the fashionable, the ultra-fashionable, and the would-be fashionable: the once fashionable, the unfashionable and the anti-fashionable” Jasper Moore. The Land of Italy (1949) It was some time ago...
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Cheese Puffs [Aigrettes au Fromage]
When spare time and inclination are unforthcoming, yet you still feel the need for a fresh, exciting supper, try this cheeky little stand-in for le fast-food. I have written elsewhere of how delicious, and simple, Burgundian Gougères can be, but these little golden...
Salade Niçoise
Some time ago, as an impecunious art student studying sculpture at Goldsmiths College, I paid the rent on a one-roomed flat in Ladbroke Grove building sets and props for theatre and television. I liked to think of these times as heralding my more practical years...