Ever wonder whether paying top dollar on the top shelf is a status symbol or sensible? Want to know what booze is best to start, end or accompany a meal? I caught up with the author of Spirits Explained, spirits…
I’m happy to say that my first supper club went really well. I admit, it was not without the odd cock up, the most prominent being my failure to dress appropriately or mark the non-dairy pies clearly before cooking, but…
Hannah Warren’s hand-drawn maps and lettering are the details that make René Redzepi’s Noma cookbook so beautiful to look at. I had the pleasure of sharing a corner with Hannah in our studio at the Royal College of Art where…
My supper club dessert was rhubarb fool, chosen for it’s fresh taste, simplicity and seasonality. My friend Clara, whose lovely crafting blog you can find here, gave me simply loads of her homegrown rhubarb: big thick stalks of it. It’s…
Rabbit is a seriously underrated and under eaten meat, so much so that I have to order it in especially from my butcher. Living, as I do, in a wealthy Transition Town where many residents are prepared to regularly fork…
I grew up just eight miles from Newhaven Harbour so I have many blurry childhood memories of ferry trips to France. The crossings were dirt cheap back then, even as low as £1 with a voucher cut from a local…
I spent the weekend catching up with old friends in South London fuelled on beer, burgers and bangers. Aside from the Ikea hotdog that gave me the shakes – yes, I’ve gone soft – my highlight had to be the…
Just a quick post to say I don’t know how it came to be but I am now a finalist in the Fresh Voice category of the BritMums Brilliance in Blogging Awards. Thank you to everyone who took a moment…
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