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- 3 days ago
Sesame seeds
"Sesame seeds offer nothing until they are toasted, lightly, in a dry pan, when all their deep nutty notes come to the fore. Don’t take...
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- 4 days ago
Cornbread - I'm confused
"Everyone at least agrees that the best cornbread is made at home" Felicity Cloake "all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good,...
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- May 26
Old things
"Whether we grow herbs, eat them, or take them as medicine, they carry us, if we stop to think about them, far back into history."...
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- May 24
Mare nostrum
"When visitors to France and Spain, in particular, drive towards the sea they say that the sensation at a certain point is of opening a...
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- May 22
The last plum
"The season for plums is short and precious. The plum like the fig is a fruit on which to gorge. But unlike figs they are relatively...
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- May 17
Noodle politics
“The message I received along with my journey in my quest to discover the identity of the noodle was that no one culture ‘owns’ a...
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- May 13
I love salami
"A kitchen seems a bit naked without a salami in the fridge. Just the way it does when you forget to get lemons." Nigel Slater...
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- May 9
Half a jar of sauerkraut
“When life gives you cabbage, prepare sauerkraut.” popular saying Sauerkraut is extremely fashionable at the moment - all that...
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- May 6
Tasters
"Taster - a small quantity or brief experience of something, intended as a sample" Oxford Languages I actually wasn't going to do a post...
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- May 2
Fashionable foraging
"If it's had something urinate on it, it's good to eat." Mike Eggert "The face of Mussel man, a.k.a Lance Wiffen from the Sea Bounty in...
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- Apr 24
Specks
"Speck - a tiny patch or spot" Vocabulary.com Speck So these are not really specks - they are too big, but it is Speck with a capital S...
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- Apr 10
Spam - yes spam
"the ham that failed its physical" American troops WW2 The human animal is a creative soul is it not? Also very adaptive. It can make...
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- Mar 27
Sage and onion
"THE TRICK: Throw the Paxo out of the window." Nigel Slater Like many British people of my age I grew up with Paxo packet stuffing, and...
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- Mar 14
Tomato sauce - musings
"The kind of sauce that starts with the simplest ingredients—some canned tomatoes, a few aromatics, some olive oil, and maybe some...
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- Mar 11
Should we abhor stock cubes?
"I've had several friends with romantic notions of writing down their bubba's chicken soup recipes, only to discover that the 'secret...
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- Mar 9
In passing
"done or said when your main focus is something different" Oxford Learner's Dictionary "briefly and casually" Google? My main focus in...
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- Mar 5
Cooking with gas - or not
There is nothing more annoying than being wrong about something that makes your life better." Doug Hendrie - The Age/Sydney Morning...
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- Mar 3
Pears and prunes
" He doesn't bore you with gracious cadence and profound emptiness" Jane Grigson Well I suspect that I am about to bore you but probably...
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- Feb 21
Seriously easy
"This basil scented dish is simply delicious, there’s not really much more I can say than that. Whether you are making it for you, or...
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- Feb 16
Wedge salads
"America's silliest salad. It's built upon the back of the least flavorful and least nutrient-dense lettuce available and blanketed in...
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