I love crisps.But then again, who doesn’t?We grow up with them. They’re everywhere - parties, pubs, picnics and school lunch boxes. They’re a British staple, really.But here’s the thing. Pretty much every crisp any of us has ever eaten will...
Chicken didn’t used to be dirt cheap.It certainly wasn’t for our grandparents, or anyone who ever lived before them. It was very much a ‘treat’.And then Big Food got involved and, well, you most likely wouldn’t be reading this email...
My wife and I will be empty nesters soon. Within about six weeks, in fact. This is both good and bad. Good because it means that at least part of the job as a parent - to make oneself vaguely...
It’s been rather warm of late, hasn’t it? Here and on the other side of la manche, of course. ‘We are now indisputably living with the undeniable effects of climate change,’ one sage pal told me last week. Quite. And yet...
We’re not doing anything new. But we’re not, though, are we? I mean, for literally thousands of years, we humans bought and sold our food at markets. Supermarkets were only invented in 1948. They’re an aberration*. It’s the market -...
Her Grace The Duchess of Richmond is a good friend of Wylde. Every year, she hosts a truly fabulous day long Health Summit at Goodwood House. The speakers are always brilliant and the topics are seriously interesting. Chaired by the brilliant...
My sister-in-law says that Laurie’s switchels make the best hangover cure. I do hope she’s right….. Nick PS - if England and Argentina were facing off this week not over football but cooking, what would their respective dishes be?
If you don’t recognise the chap in the photo, don’t worry - you won’t be the only one. It’s Stanislav Petrov. And he saved the world. Really. He was Russian, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence...
‘The thing you have to know about the Spanish, Nick’, my friend said to me as we waved these shores goodbye, ‘is that they’ve spent hundreds of years perfecting the art of having a good time.’We then went on to...
As a man of very nearly 50, I’m getting increasingly used to the fact that certain trends just pass me by.I’m not deliberately sticking my head in the sand, trust me. It’s more that - almost by definition - some...
What a campaign! So. Farewell then Anthony Head, Actor. You starred in Ted Lasso, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin and The Inbetweeners. But my friend Keith’s mum Said you were Never better than When you did the coffee commercials. The Blend may have been rubbish, But the advertsWere Gold. I felt moved to write the above -...
Bean thinking about this for a while? Richard’s listed his organic, super seasonal broad beans this week.It reminded me of this brilliant little recipe from my old mucka Tim Maddams.I’m away this week rewinding myself, so if you need anything...