‘We are dealing with products of nature, and these vary.’

‘Weigh with the eye and taste while cooking.’ The words of Claudia Roden on the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme … More

Baked Egg ‘Arnold Bennett’

Earlier this week, I read about Omelette Arnold Bennett in the excellent Four Seasons by Margaret Costas that my mother … More

wise words from Zoe Jewell.

articulate the elegant eccentricity of chef Jeremy Lee, and easy, old-fashioned luxury of his restaurant marvellously. Quo Vadis’s theatre set … More

Along with Marcel Boulestin – of whom, more at a later time, Elizabeth David writes an essay on the menus … More

My friend Ayca sent me this poem by the Chilean Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), translated into English by Margaret Sayers … More

Prompted by the marvellous book by Arabella Boxer on English food between the wars (WWI and II) that my Dad gave me … More