Every now and again, you just happen across a film that inspires. The Biggest Little Farm is one of those for me.I first watched it a few years ago, but I've come back to it recently because it's just so compelling....
It was a very cold, wet day in late January. The farm was up a long muddy track. One of those sort of corrugated concrete style affairs. Down it trickled little streams of freshly fallen West Country rain. (I'd forgotten...
A couple of weekends back, I took some of Hayden’s Dovers out the freezer and barbecued ‘em.Kept ‘em moist by spraying them periodically with agua de Lourdes - a Spanish concoction of olive oil, water, apple cider vinegar and salt.Melted a...
Two spectacular new cookbooks have been the talk of the Wylde team this week. The first is Tim Hayward’s ‘Steak’. It’s excellent. ‘Encyclopedic’ doesn’t even come close - not least because it’s much more interesting, and significantly better written than any...
Demand better. Go Wylde. Nick PS - in yesterday’s Guardian, Grace Dent - who knows a thing or two aboutfood - revealed that a restaurant called Tollington’s recently served her ‘the greatest chips I have ever eaten’. She also revealed...
Markets are magic. They’re noisy, busy and vital. They’re dynamic and vibrant. Abundant. My first memory is of a market. Eating a banana in my buggy as my mum pushed me through Surrey Street in Croydon. I can still remember the smells. The colours....
Double Bonds. But not like the picture, unfortunately.Because it turns out that when it comes to molecules, 'double bonds' are not good news at all. ‘Dark Calories’ is a book written by an American doctor called Catherine Shanahan. I read it recently,...
Look at what the wonderful chef Anna Tobias did with her Wylde Market produce recently.Just exquisite.If her recipe inspires you, the market's open right now....NickPS - remember you can refer your pals via WyldeFire. And both you and they will...
The speaker was Eddie Abbew, the social media super influencer known for not mincing his words.And the "conspiracy" was the collusion of supermarkets and Big Food to keep folk eating crap. Eddie - pictured below with the other Nick, the one...
Confession time. Until very recently, I used to get very mixed results with my Hollandaise sauce. While a hungry family patiently waited, I swore as attempt after attempt split. Or ended up like a very weird version of scrambled egg. And then...
Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Oxford, says that friends are so important to us as humans that their absence can have profoundly negative consequences on both our physical and mental health. We agree.If Wylde is about anything, it’s about...
A janoi is a sacred thread. It’s made up of three strands that are placed on Hindu boys as part of their coming of age ceremony. Each strand represents a reminder of the boy’s three lifelong ‘debts’ - to his god,...