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People in Elizabethan dress gather around a large fruit cake at a festive Twelfth Night feast.

The king of cakes

"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
December 23, 2020
Breaking a few eggs

Breaking a few eggs

"Before anyone had even thought of hen-rehoming as a thing, my mother had become an inadvertent rehomer of escapees from the nearby broiler house"
August 28, 2020
That's because I was brought up in a frugal post-war household, where scraps were never wasted.

Boiled shoes

All my culinary life I’ve worked on the principle that when there seems to be nothing left to eat in the house, you can always make soup. That’s because I was brought
July 10, 2020
True Grits

True Grits

'We drove into Breaux Bridge, “the crawfish capital of the world”, and the place was shrouded in an early dusk: it was hurricane season'
November 25, 2013
The revelation that Obama's White House brewery is using Kentish hops shows America's changing attitudes to cask ale.

Hops and Glory

The revelation that Obama's White House brewery is using Kentish hops shows America's changing attitudes to cask ale
September 25, 2012
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