For the March 2015 issue of Waitrose Kitchen magazine, I interviewed Jose Pizarro, Ken Hom, Shelina Permalloo, Jeremy Lee and Anissa Helou about the culinary inheritance they learned from their…
Carol Trewin was by all accounts a food writer who made a difference. She made a difference to the farmers, producers, chefs, rural businesses and communities she wrote about, because…
If you want to know how to make the best salted caramel, in my opinion you should look no further than chocolatier Paul A Young’s recipe. A couple of years…
I recently picked up a secondhand copy of Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cooking, first published as World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking in America in 1981, then in the UK two years later.…
White chocolate ice cream is a particular favourite of mine, so when I recently got a copy of ice cream BIBLE, Ice creams, sorbets & gelati: The definitive guide by…
Chicken, eggs and lots of tomatoes? All fried together in a pan? What’s not to like? On the face of it, quite a lot. I can appreciate that the idea…
These wheat free brownies – yes, wheat free – are as good as the wheat flour kind. I promise. (Or your money back.) The recipe is very simple and came…
First steps in wheat free baking: Since going wheat-free on doctor’s orders a few weeks ago, I’ve been trying to negotiate my way around the quagmire that is baking without…
I’m calling this loaf of wholemeal bread my last hurrah. About two weeks ago a doctor advised me to try going on a wheat free diet for six weeks to…
In the 1920s the money my dad’s grandfather made from his small flock’s wool covered the farm rent for that year. In more recent times, dad’s been lucky if his…
