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March Issue…… Nigel Slater’s New Book….. One Pan Dinners…… and Stolen Chickens

21/03/2016 By
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  BOOK REVIEW “A Year of Good Eating” Duck with Udon Noodles…Agnello Rapido….Lentils with Cous Cous… Roast Chicken with Lime and Mint…. A menu from a new international restaurant? Some of my dream dishes? No – just a few of 250+ recipes in a just-published volume of gorgeous grub. Read on. The British seem to […]

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ON THE RIGHT LINES – Living, steaming, moving history…

15/10/2014 By
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Earlier this month Mary and I spent a happy week touring around Yorkshire, based on the pleasant spa town of Harrogate.   We were wallowing in nostalgia of a special kind: for old fashioned trains pulled by huffing and chuffing steam engines more than 60 years old. We were part of a group of about 40 […]

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PASTA – how should it be cooked?

01/04/2012 By

At a lunch-time “do” not long ago, I happened to chum up with a visiting Italian food and wine writer. The five-star hotel’s buffet was excellent and we both enjoyed an excellent array of hors d’oeuvres before sizing up the pasta bar, where there was a good selection of sauces to match with four or […]

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PHOTO ESSAY: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT…

29/08/2012 By
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  A sad farewell to some long-serving cameras. I transferred my allegiance from film to digital photography about six years ago and have never regretted it, because the pictures I was taking for newspaper and magazine reproduction were not going to be enlarged beyond, say, 15 x 20 cms at most, so super-quality in large […]

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PLENTY TO BEEF ABOUT

22/02/2013 By
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  There’s this poor old nag, who’s worked on a farm in deepest Romania all his life, but can’t work anymore. So he’s shipped off by lorry to a meat factory many hundreds of miles away in the South of France, along with a lot of his mates, where he’s slaughtered and cut into chunks. […]

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REVIEW – March 2013

11/03/2013 By
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Pottering Around   I wander along our High Street on most days and often wonder why there are so few people about. I find it rather a dull looking street; perhaps it still feels it should have the A12 traffic passing through it. This is a pity because there are some good shops run some […]

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