This week I was invited to a special Diwali supper club. It was hosted by Luiz of the food blog The London Foodie, and it featured a menu devised by food writer and private chef Maunika Gowardhan. Diwali, the Festival of Lights, falls on October 26 this year, and celebrates the Hindu New Year. As with […]
Continue readingTall native foxgloves nod me through the long lane that leads to Elisabeth Luard’s marshmallow pink Welsh farmhouse. All around me is the rolling pastoral landscape of Ceredigion, a beautiful part of mid-west Wales that leads onward to Aberystwyth and the sea. I have come to meet one of Britain’s most loved food writers, multi […]
Continue readingI started blogging about 18 months ago. I’ve been a writer, broadcaster and journalist for twenty-five years, but when you earn a living as a writer it’s odd how hard it is to find time to write about the things you love best. Food, books, art and photography are my greatest passions and it struck […]
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The Browser is a website that food, drink and kitchen garden lovers who want to stay up to date with news, views, interviews and trends in these lifestyle sectors cannot afford to miss. It was launched in 2009 to bring together the old US Browser and Five Books websites together, in order to create a […]
Continue readingThe new cookery school and café at Square Food Foundation is situated in Daventry Park, Knowle West, south of Bristol, in a residential area best reached with a detailed map, clear directions and a dose of chutzpah. When you arrive you enter a huge, open-plan, purpose built cafeteria-canteen: excited children are eating their lunch, chefs […]
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Chipping Sodbury is a very rare place in the modern world: a market town, located just north-east of Bristol and south-west of Stroud, where you can do all your weekly shopping on just one high street. There is a very well stocked delicatessen-café called The Hamptons, a thriving green grocer, Ian Veale’s, that has been […]
Continue readingBefore I arrive to interview a cookery book writer or chef, I always try to imagine what their kitchen is going to be like. I look through their past books or magazine articles, their website, blog and Twitter stream, trying to sneak a peek at their photographs to see what may await me when I […]
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On first appearances you might well be forgiven for not realising that The Stagg Inn in Titley, between Kington and Presteigne in Herefordshire, is the destination eaterie of choice for miles around. There is a very pretty box lined parterre garden at the side of this attractive roadside inn, right in the middle of the […]
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The barbeque is the definitive camper’s companion. I have a couple that I bring along on our many camping trips. The mainstay is the old trusty 1’600 RPM’, an old washing machine drum that I rescued from a tip. The beauty of this barbeque is that once the cooking is done, you can chuck on […]
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At this time of year farm shops, allotments and kitchen gardens abound with big, fat juicy marrows. One of my favourite ways of cooking them is stuffed with ragu alla bolognese and topped with a creamy, grated cheese. This week I have been cooking with Godminster Vintage Cheddar, made from organic milk in Bruton, Somerset, The […]
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