Wahey it’s spring! Out and about by the river in South West London you can practically feel people slewing off the stresses of the long, cold winter. It took a…
At the start of April I took up a 30 day challenge to go without sugar (allowing myself only honey as a subsitute). Well, I’ve been dreaming of chocolate cake,…
It’s been a hard spring for sheep farmers so far with more than 25,000 animals found dead in the snow. My parents’ 45 acre farm in Cornwall has, by comparison,…
This lovely healthy dinner began life under a cloud. I was in a bad mood having left Cornwall at 6am for a four and half hour drive to London, eaten…
Recently, I went to a talk by Google about best online practice for journalists. At work I use Google adwords and trends as an aid to writing web content, but…
This Easter I made a simnel cake and rather than bake the simple marzipan fruit cake, I had a go at expert baker Fiona Cairns’ recipe in the Easter edition…
Homemade granola is simple to make and I swear it’s cheaper than shop-bought. Once I’ve made a batch of this it lasts me for at least a week and how…
Food photography is something I accidentally-on-purpose slipped into. And I love it. When I first started editing The Artful Diner, I was pretty scared at the thought of turning up…
Sure as eggs is eggs there are eggs and then there are EGGS. To illustrate the point I took a photo of my breakfast this morning (see the very obviously…
I went home to Cornwall a few weeks ago, and was very excited to cook with my parents’ new potatoes. When we bought our farm in the mid-90s one of…
