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- 7 days ago
Robert Carrier, tomatoes and indexes
"Cook dinner with Robert Carrier and you’ll need butter, cream, wine and quite a lot of cognac" Jay Rayner It's guru week - by which I...
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- Jan 26
A moment in time for Heston ... and me
"I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge,...
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- Jan 16
Noma, Harry, OTK ... what do they have in common?
"Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves." ...
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- Jan 14
From peas to plin and a cookbook
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." Douglas Adams The eternal question -...
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- Jan 10
A summer afternoon with Elizabeth David
"After all, it is summer. You are on holiday. You are in company of your own choosing. The air is clean. You can smell wild fennel...
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- Jan 8
Success does not necessarily mean quality
"I work for compensation, not in exchange for product or “exposure.” Long-term relationships with brands and products that I love is...
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- Jan 7
An almost perfect tomato tart
"Use of lime juice, tomatoes and spice in some recipes is amazing!" An Amazon reviewer I've spoken about tomato tarts before - how...
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- Jan 3
A glass of wine
"Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere." José Andres A few random thoughts on wine inspired from a frame in...
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- Jan 2
First recipe, first book
"The only way to eat superb Indian food, with a guarantee of variety, quality and freshness of ingredients, is to learn to cook it for...
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- Dec 29, 2022
Purveyor of necessities or successful entrepreneur?
"one who provides necessities and supplies" Online Etymology Dictionary The book on the left is one I am considering placing in our...
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- Dec 28, 2022
Reading recipes
"mistakes can sometimes have wonderful outcomes" Barbara Sweeney I think I have sort of done this a long, long, time ago, but a couple...
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- Dec 21, 2022
Excess
"You can’t just push the door and walk in; no… here you ring a bell, and wait for the door to be opened and for you to be greeted. It...
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- Dec 18, 2022
Not much to say about asparagus soup
"It sort of goes against the grain to turn the most beautiful of vegetables into a soup." Simon Hopkinson My next first recipe has been...
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- Dec 9, 2022
Ordinary people - marketing plus
"We know every family has treasured festive recipes with rich stories attached to them. So we went in search of them from all around...
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- Dec 3, 2022
Sides
"Tasty enough on its own, but humble enough to not take away from the main event" OTK Extra Good Things Just to make clear, this is not...
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- Nov 29, 2022
Green tomatoes - not always fried
"fried green tomatoes are only "Southern" because a movie made them that way." Sam Dean/Bon Appétit Yes I know - it's the wrong time of...
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- Nov 27, 2022
"Classics are the classics for a reason"
CLASSIC: "accepted or deserving to be accepted as one of the best or most important of its kind" Oxford Dictionary "having a high...
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- Nov 25, 2022
Words from (and about) Keith Floyd
"With Floyd, food on television went Technicolor. It had life. Anything was possible – exotic locations, unscripted howlers, wild...
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- Nov 16, 2022
What's in a name?
"it’s my little corner of the internet to write, worshipping and lamenting the food that comes out of my kitchen and I share with people...
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- Nov 14, 2022
Weeding
"it’s not a matter of deciding which books you give away. It’s figuring out which books you absolutely need to keep." Russ...
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