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An Elizabeth David recipe - some thoughts
"It is her recipes that I am grateful to have found as they are not traditional and they are not precise" The Simply Luxurious Life...
Oct 17, 2024
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Waves in the kitchen - a blog
"I want to inspire people to live a more healthy, plant-filled life" Daniela Gerson I cringe slightly at this website, but really, if...
Oct 12, 2024
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Art, food, the curriculum
"The great thing about making art about food is that it is all around you" The Tate I've been putting this topic off in my Food...
Oct 8, 2024
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Those old posts
"You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward." Soren Kierkegaard This is the header for the first iteration of my...
Oct 6, 2024
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The frustrations of lucky dips
“I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should respect it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked,...
Sep 24, 2024
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'Eat' - marmalade chicken
"I refer to this book so often, it rarely makes it to a shelf and is usually found laying on a table peppered with random pieces...
Sep 21, 2024
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Collectors and/or creators
"it’s about familiarising yourself with ingredients and understanding flavours." Alex Hely Hutchinson There are so many things that you...
Sep 20, 2024
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Empty
"What is empty? It is the lack of a story… but you can always find a story." Wendy Woods Can you? I must say I'm struggling today, even...
Sep 15, 2024
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Celery and pasta? A tour of the blogs
"That could be anything from very good to quite terrible. It’s hard to tell.” Diane's Cookbooks The opening quote was a given for one of...
Sep 13, 2024
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Comfort - a moveable feast
"the ability of a dish to be nostalgic and novel at once - that's at the heart of our interpretation of comfort. In this book we offer...
Sep 10, 2024
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When love goes wrong, travel and start a blog
"The story is about how a professional eater met a professional chef and now we share stories, recipes and video on our site." Ayngelina...
Sep 5, 2024
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Lists, coincidence ...
"I keep lists. Some copied into notebooks in neat italic script in blue-black ink, others scribbled almost illegibly in soft pencil on...
Sep 2, 2024
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Jo has two websites - why?
"Why start another blog? Why not! I just love what I do." Joanna Cismaru Back to the website titles that have captured my eye - for all...
Aug 16, 2024
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Do you plan a week's meals?
"Is "planning" this stuff just for people who need another thing to make their life more difficult?" dethwatch/Reddit I have just spent...
Aug 9, 2024
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On commenting and how to choose what's for dinner
"The recipe comments function like a virtual watering hole where strangers swap tips and stories and occasionally the stray insight."...
Jul 31, 2024
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The most wonderful book
"Everything is made to seem so easy – it turns out it is." Caroline Taylor/All That I'm Eating Around the time of my birthday I was in my...
Jul 30, 2024
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Self-doubt and a recipe
"So much of the very best food is like this, which is to say a huge bloody mess. It lies on the plate or in the bowl, looking like...
Jul 24, 2024
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My kitchen bit by bit - 2
"Anything can be a lodestar in a person's life, I suppose, and for some fortunates like me, the kitchen serves well." MFK Fisher Which...
Jul 23, 2024
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Rambling around osso buco
“the meat soft as the leg of an angel who has lived a purely airborne existence.” Billy Collins This post is all down to a first recipe...
Jul 21, 2024
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So many talents - it's not fair
"You sort of get closer to perfection with each failed attempt" Nik Sharma Nik Sharma is the man in the photo and author of three...
Jul 19, 2024
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