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Elizabeth David wrote in her book, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, a collection of pieces she’d written about food and wine over 30 years for magazines and newspapers, that an ‘omelette demands the most straightforward approach … (and) a glass or two of wine as not, obviously, essential but at least as an […]
Read More‘Fings ain’t wot they used t’be’ goes the old Lionel Bart song for the hit London stage show of the same name in the 1960s about East London Cockney characters. According to that doyenne of cookery writing Prue Leith, cookbooks aren’t what they used to be either. ‘In my day you could still buy a good […]
Read More‘A present,’ my son said on Saturday morning, handing me a bag, when we met for breakfast at Taylor St Baristas, Richmond. I looked inside. Four small black/deep purple vegetables. I was a bit confused. Were they baby aubergines? No, they were chillies he’d grown in his garden. I’d also tried to grow black chillies. […]
Read MoreNow We Are One, I hope it’s not too precocious of this food blogger to enter the great omelette debate. I think I can honestly say it’s not hubris but probably a certain amount of recklessness on my part, for many great chefs argue the route to a perfect omelette and I am most definitely […]
Read MoreI’m discovering that when I think I’ll do a classic dish for the blog, something I’ve cooked many times over many years, it’s never as easy as it should be. It’s like stepping into a sea – in this case the lovely Mediterranean variety – of controversy. There you are thinking you know without question […]
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