Dear Claire, Happy New Year! We had a lovely winter break and I hope you did too. We were lucky enough to spend some time in the southwest of Florida, also known as the sunshine state - and warm and sunny it was too. Just the tonic, as now we’re back up north with…
Dear Sam, Mmm, the roast chestnuts you were telling me about sound very tempting - I will add them to my Christmas shopping list! Your post started me thinking about all the delicious aromas that we associate with Christmas and it's also one of the themes of a book I've been reading lately, Nigel Slater's The Christmas…
Friday food for thought Dr Samuel Johnson Critic, biographer, essayist, poet and lexicographer. 1709 - 1784
Dear Claire I'm roasting chestnuts as I write - no better tradition at this time of year, when December is almost upon us, the lights are twinkling in the windows and the snow is flurrying. I do miss the chestnut sellers on English street corners and their little blackened paper bags of steaming hot…
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
