The Big Cheese I have to confess when I noticed Riverford (from whom I buy my organic box delivery) were selling Mozzarella made not in Italy but in Hampshire I was to put it mildly a little dubious. Could Laverstoke Park Farm really be producing genuine buffalo mozzarella that could live up to, let alone [...]
“Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.” Charles Dickens Figs are such a strikingly beautiful fruit, with their fresh green or deep purple skin and vibrant deep pink flesh what is there not to love? Fresh figs always remind me of [...]
A Taste of Morocco “I’m really proud of this beautiful dish. I’m not sure what the mechoui man I met in the market in Marrakesh would make of it, but I like to think I’m respecting the way he cooks” Jamie Oliver (Jamie Does) If Jamie Oliver is unsure of how his version of Mechoui [...]
“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” Louis Bromfield, American novelist (1896-1956) Oh sunshine where have you gone? The weather has been a little challenging of late, to say the [...]