Midnight Special Eggs

(Khan’s Bargain in Peckham, where I bought my naan bread.) I got home late last night after hearing Dawn Foster … More

Trotters ahoy for 50p each from Flock and Herd butcher in Peckham for an Elizabeth David recipe from French Provincial … More

Braised Chicken and Artichokes

picture: http://blog.boroughmarket.org.uk/ The shop near my new flat in Peckham had some violet tinged artichokes for sale at 99p each … More

Some of the best cookery books that I have read this year. My beef with hardbacks is their lack of … More

This passage of writing is so important to me: Women bereft of writing who came before me, you who passed … More

A young artichoke that I planted in my parents’ vegetable patch in Suffolk. I wrote this rather heated poem about … More

My housemate and I were ill. We needed fortifying, so chicken seemed like a good idea. There’s nothing wrong with … More