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First recipe impact - is it why we buy?
"without naming names, I find that many miss out on the opportunity to sell the casual reader by making your first recipe absolutely...
May 7, 2024
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Amuse-bouches
Amuse-bouches: "a bite-sized hors d’oeuvre sent out at the whim of the chef, to whet diners’ appetites (or “amuse the mouth”) for the...
May 2, 2024
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The delights and annoyances of a Persian lunch
“One of the joys of restaurants is that they’re a brilliant place for disclosure. If you’re going, ‘Sorry, what? You did what? To whom?’...
Apr 29, 2024
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Desi or dépaysé - inventing comfort food
"Being the child of an immigrant has its own issues because your identity is so torn." Afreena Islam "Desi: a person of birth or descent...
Apr 25, 2024
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Blogging success - A Pinch of Yum. (And oops!)
"People sharing information that helps people." Bjork Ostrom First of all the oops. Somehow or other when I wrote my post about not...
Apr 24, 2024
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A lucky dip, a website, lamb and avgolemono
"Avgolemono is just so important to Greeks. But maybe it’s even more important to Greeks who’ve left Greece." Simon Glofit So it began...
Apr 11, 2024
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Variations - granola
"There is no real recipe for it, as it is made to the taste of the person preparing it." Family Spice Yes I know - this is not granola. ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Authenticity - a book and a soup
"When you give of yourself through a dish, you aren't just feeding somebody's physical hunger, but a deeper longing for home, for a safe...
Apr 4, 2024
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Nik Sharma - a new Ottolenghi?
"The goal with recipe writing – and I think this rings true for anyone who works in the food world – is to drive people to try new...
Apr 2, 2024
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Cake for the lumberjacks or a queen?
"baking (and eating) cake can help whatever ails you" David Lebovitz On Monday we are having the Great Easter Egg Hunt - yes still. I...
Mar 30, 2024
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Is this a listicle?
"You can write a listicle about any subject which can be divided into bullet points. That’s… pretty much everything." Corinna...
Mar 29, 2024
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Odd couple? - Smoked trout and carrots
This is one of those musings on what to do with what I've got in the fridge - and this time it's not a really obvious pairing - smoked...
Mar 28, 2024
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An earnest blogger
"So this is it. I have to cook every dish in the book as written by Jane – even if it contains something I don’t like, e.g. whiskey and...
Mar 22, 2024
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A is for Alexanders, Z is for Zander - A-Z
"Every culinary endeavour begins with ingredients." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall What a slightly creepy conjunction of names - Alexanders...
Mar 16, 2024
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"Add as many herbs as you like"
"Surely he didn’t mean a whole bunch of rosemary?" Rachel Roddy This post has turned out to be a mix of a couple of ideas that I had...
Mar 14, 2024
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Chaos Cooking - new words for an old thing
"Any food idea that makes you smile is a food idea to be embraced." Erin Shaw/Food Republic "there is no "wrong." Only "try again...
Feb 25, 2024
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Old fashioned grilling
"That tangle of bars that lights up over the food isn't worthy of the name. In my book a grill is where the heat comes from below the...
Feb 19, 2024
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Almost 50 years post Cuisine Minceur
"This was far and away the most influential cookery book of the latter half of the last century. It affected almost everything we eat...
Feb 17, 2024
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No date syrup - so ...
"If you can’t find mulberry pekmez, use date syrup instead." Yotam Ottolenghi I put that quote at the top of this post, because it...
Feb 2, 2024
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Cruising the net on a sunny afternoon
"In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten." Tom Hodgkinson "watching...
Jan 30, 2024
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