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
Asparagus Tart
“Nature ordained that asparagus should grow wild, so that everyone may go and pick it, yet now we see cultivated asparagus!” Pliny the Elder Heaven forbid, although I am unsure as to whether he was merely surprised by such commercial modernity or thoroughly outraged...
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 having wine for dinner” – Julia Child. Julia Child, seminal American cook and author said “Wine is part of the food chain, it makes meals more pleasant”...
Asparagus
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses" Abraham Lincoln Just for a moment, as May Day beckons, I steal my gaze from the airborne grace of our incoming house martins, swallows and turtle doves to a more earthly...
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 straight to St. John Restaurant near London’s Smithfield Market. If Gavroche has provided London with its finest French cooking and River Café its Italian,...
Tom Yang Gung
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but not with an empty stomach” Jìt-jai thêe râh-reung bpen yah thêe dee dtàe dtâwng mâi yòo bon tháwng thêe wâhng. – Thai proverb As with European monks living off their abundant landholdings during the medieval period, Thai farmers...
Roast Chicken
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral". Frank Lloyd Wright Readers of the Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine voted Roast Chicken and Other Stories (1994) the 'The most useful cookbook of all time'. I have no argument with...
Spag Bol
“People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.” Anthony Bourdain I’m not sure as to whether it was the early...