Thoughts

Wylde about....Venison.

Wylde about....Venison.

Big on flavour. Brilliant on the barbecue. Fabulous in a spag bol. Wild. Abundant. And available here. If you eat meat, it doesn’t get much better than this. Nick Eating venison is a positively good...

Wylde about....Venison.

Big on flavour. Brilliant on the barbecue. Fabulous in a spag bol. Wild. Abundant. And available here. If you eat meat, it doesn’t get much better than this. Nick Eating venison is a positively good...

Wylde about....Australians.

Wylde about....Australians.

Australians love lamb. Like, really, really love it. This was brought into very sharp focus for me one summer, years ago. My wife and I had invited some Aussie neighbours over for...

Wylde about....Australians.

Australians love lamb. Like, really, really love it. This was brought into very sharp focus for me one summer, years ago. My wife and I had invited some Aussie neighbours over for...

Wylde about....Scallops.

Wylde about....Scallops.

This is James. This time tomorrow he hopes to be 20 - 30 metres underwater. In fact, that’s true of every day next week. Because James is a scallop diver. At 0630, he meets...

Wylde about....Scallops.

This is James. This time tomorrow he hopes to be 20 - 30 metres underwater. In fact, that’s true of every day next week. Because James is a scallop diver. At 0630, he meets...

Wylde about....Flora.

Wylde about....Flora.

It’s gonna be May on Wednesday. I know. But there we are. We humans have long celebrated the arrival of May.Take Floralia, for example. Flora was a Roman goddess of flowers, vegetation and...

Wylde about....Flora.

It’s gonna be May on Wednesday. I know. But there we are. We humans have long celebrated the arrival of May.Take Floralia, for example. Flora was a Roman goddess of flowers, vegetation and...

Wylde about....Revolution.

Wylde about....Revolution.

Gil Scott-Heron’s mellifluous music might well have been made for Sunday mornings. A nerdish raking over the recent AGMs of big corporations certainly wasn’t. And yet – bear with me here –...

Wylde about....Revolution.

Gil Scott-Heron’s mellifluous music might well have been made for Sunday mornings. A nerdish raking over the recent AGMs of big corporations certainly wasn’t. And yet – bear with me here –...

Wylde about....Toad In The Hole.

Wylde about....Toad In The Hole.

It's an odd name, isn't it? And, unlike many English dishes, it doesn't benefit from being translated into high-falutin' French.'Crapaud Dans Le Trou', if anything, is worse.No one really seems...

Wylde about....Toad In The Hole.

It's an odd name, isn't it? And, unlike many English dishes, it doesn't benefit from being translated into high-falutin' French.'Crapaud Dans Le Trou', if anything, is worse.No one really seems...