My sister-in-law says that Laurie’s switchels make the best hangover cure.I do hope she’s right…..NickPS - 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 Force and he is...
‘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...
Like Whitney, I believe the children are the future.But then again, who doesn’t?Probably no one - although you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise considering the fact that, as a generation, we’ve stopped teaching our children to cook. Because these days, if...
Willow Farm does not exist. I'll say that again. There is no Willow Farm. No willows. No farm. No farmer called Willow leaning on a gate in wellies. It's fiction. Totally, 100%, abso-blooming-lutely made up. And yet it's not alone. There are other...
I admit it.Over the years, I’ve taken fairly serious umbrage at those who have dared to suggest to me that British food isn’t especially good. Indeed, I’ve delighted in pointing those wannabe detractors not just towards the Michelin-starred restaurants all over...
Lots of us have seen the excellent Netflix film, ‘My Octopus Teacher’.Some of us have read ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey Smith.That octopuses are very smart seems undeniable. As a result, we’ve never listed them on our market*.But I’ve been...
There are elections this week. Cue a lot of politicians talking about ‘change’.Luckily, we don’t have to wait for them to make it.Because one of the biggest – and most positive – changes we can all make is to what we...
This is Zach Galifianakis.He’s an actor. And it was by watching his new Netflix series, This Is A Gardening Show, that I learned that apparently in ancient Egypt to remove worms from the soil was a crime punishable by death.Harsh, perhaps,...