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 Christmas Cake
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting…” From Jumpers by Tom Stoppard With a year of lock-ins, lock-downs and lock outs - the last being my cunning reference to the Brexit débâcle, although using a French term might appear downright impolite at...
Mincemeat
“It is lucky to eat as many pies as possible before Christmas, as says the dweller in London, or is the more elaborate custom found in Yorkshire more correct? The writer of this book, being a Yorkshire woman, is quite sure that it is not correct to eat mince pies...
Madeleines
“There is no man however wise”, he said to me, “who has not at some time in his youth said things or even led a life of which his memory is disagreeable and which he would wish to be abolished. But he absolutely should not regret it, because he can’t be assured of...
Parmesan Risotto
When just out of college, and income was in short supply, I loved to eat out. Ironically, as time passed, with a growing family and a burgeoning income, I chose to eat more at home. I had discovered a desire to cook and I began to teach myself the rudiments of...
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 in dank subterranean cellars long before the first espresso of the morning and baked in arid vineyards at midday. I have stared with feigned interest...
Curried Parsnip Soup
“Words are but wind that do from men proceed; None but Chameleons on bare Air can feed; Great men large hopeful promises may utter; Fine words did never Fish nor Parsnips butter”. Epigrammes (1651) - John Taylor. During his 1993 speech to the Conservative conference,...
Langoustine and Clotted Cream Quiche
“I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about Bill Baker, although he may not be his doctor’s idea of a model patient, Bill is one of the very few wine merchants who embraces what he eats as enthusiastically as what he drinks”. From Vintner’s Tales. 1991 Jancis...