Recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen
A tale of 250 of my family’s favourite meals.
I have been cooking for over 40 years, for my wife initially and then, one by one, for my children. It was, and still remains, a pleasure and privilege to feed my family each day. What I have never categorised is the collection of recipes that would serve to illustrate the many thousands of meals I have cooked for them and their friends. Now was the opportunity and imperative to do so.
Recipes
Wild Garlic soup
A recent family visit to Noma, in Copenhagen (voted best restaurant in the world), left me with a comforting degree of well-being, a glow of consummate piety and a considerably lighter wallet. The beacon of Danish sustainability shone brightly that particular evening...
Guinea Fowl
Over the years my family has occupied three separate houses across North Norfolk, all approximately equidistant from Norwich and Cromer, and all surrounded by cultivated fields. The first house we inhabited had only one near neighbour, an otherwise surly old farm hand...
Loftus
A while ago I was asked to re-establish a wine department for a long-standing brewery in East Anglia - Lacons. Along with its original Victorian wine and spirit department, Burroughs, it had been decimated during the brewery and pub asset strip of the '60's when...