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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![Garlic Chicken [Poulet à l’àil]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_0282-400x250.jpg)
Garlic Chicken [Poulet à l’àil]
Elisabeth Luard, in her absorbing book European Peasant Cookery, introduces one of my most treasured poultry dishes from France with the following note from one of her close relatives whom she describes as a ‘gentleman-of-letters’: “Garlic eaters, assuredly wiser than...
![Galician Almond Tart [Tarte de Santiago]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_3799-400x250.jpg)
Galician Almond Tart [Tarte de Santiago]
Some time ago I joined a trade delegation hosted by the commercial arm of the Spanish Embassy on a visit to Galicia, a region in the north western corner of Spain. Effectively a European jolly with as many wine samples as you could shake a corkscrew at. Flanked along...
Asparagus Tartlets
In The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley described the past as a foreign country, where they do things differently. I have a feeling author Laura Mason might not find the concept so convincing. In her lengthy introduction to The National Trust Farmhouse Cookbook, published in...
Irish Oatmeal Soda Bread
“All sorrows are less with bread” Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote As I have mentioned elsewhere on this site, the saintly Delia Smith has a knack of making certain recipes appear seamless, none more so than this Irish soda bread. A potential nemesis to our...
La Gougère
If Bordeaux wine estates are in the grip of absentee landlords and investment trusts, Burgundy (Bourgogne) in eastern France remains a land where small farmers still maintain their own vineyards. However due to the escalation in wine prices these days, those same...
Moussaka
"I at last realised that eating was a spiritual function and that meat, bread and wine were the raw materials from which the mind is made." From the novel Zorba the Greek. Nikos Kazantzakis. In the 2002 film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the female lead and author, Nia...
Plain and Simple White Bread
"A technological triumph, factory bread may be. Taste it has none. Should it be called bread?" Elizabeth David. English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1971) Across the culinary television schedules from 1955 until now, we have been subjected to an array of celebrity chefs....