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Sam’s On The Road get the wagons out for some al fresco dining in Cornwall
Summer in the UK is an oxymoron. I’m sorry Caroline Quentin but while the sun always shines on TV it doesn’t always shine in England’s poorest county. A premature burst of rays in May might delude us into flipfloppèd white-legged … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, restaurant reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Caroline Quentin Cornwall, Fergus Henderson, Gordon Ramsay, pop up, The Hidden Hut
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Bringing back the bacon to Cornwall for Farmhouse Breakfast Week
According to Jay Rayner, we may well be sick of hearing about ‘dirty fast food’ in 2012; sick even, of hearing people say they are sick of it. Bacon is different. Unlike sausages, hot dogs and burgers (whose recent ‘inclusive’ … Continue reading
Let them eat cake for school packed lunches? Hell no.
Ever since the iconic images of parents stuffing fast food through school gates like deranged chimpanzees on the wrong side of the bars, the fight over school dinners as launched by Jamie Oliver back in 2006 has become anything but … Continue reading
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Tagged Jamie Oliver School Dinners, John Rankin, Penair School, school packed lunches
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Why vegetarians would eat veal
Turn on the telly and you’re likely to catch a bearded man foraging on Channel 4 or a BBC fledgling MasterChef shouting about seasonal and local; look at your bookshelf and you’ve probably got at least one over-priced TV-endorsed cookbook … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, meat products, Uncategorized
Tagged Bocaddon Farm Veal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Hix, Rose Prince
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A Masterclass in Stock Making from John Walton at Paul Ainsworth’s Number Six, Padstow
(Photos by John Such) With increasing emphasis on homemade, foraged and hand-squeezed by fair maidens from a farm near you, you’d assume that such a basic building block as how to make a good stock would be covered by the … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, fish, meat products, Uncategorized
Tagged Number Six Padstow, Paul Ainsworth, stock
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Pull Me Up Baby – a dish to pull you right out of ‘Chrimbo limbo’ into New Year
This particular tiramisù recipe is straight from the mouth of a Sicilian mamma and these diminutive but formidable ladies know how to cook. Split the word into three and you have the essence of the dish – tirare=to pull; mi=me … Continue reading
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Tagged Russell Grant, Sicily, Strictly Come Dancing, tiramisu recipe
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The inaugural Cornwall Clandestine Cake Club
Clandestine. Cake. Club. All together in one sentence. Does the very notion send thrills down your cake-seeking veins? It did mine. A little tweet of an invite and within minutes I’d accepted to be part of an underground movement whose … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, Uncategorized
Tagged Clandestine Cake Club, Rick Stein, secret supper club, The Secret Tea Room
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Are Sainsbury’s candy floss grapes such an aberration?
The question we need to ask ourselves before we all get in a Curly Wurly about Sainsbury’s new candy floss grapes is this: does ‘natural’ food exist anymore? If on the whole no, why should aforementioned vine fruits with weird … Continue reading
Rib-ticklingly good
Ribs. Kidneys. Skin. Trotter. Knuckle. We don’t see them often enough. So ask for them. Change the butcher’s mind. Where there is demand there is supply. These particular ribs were a gift with some sausages and hefty pork chops that … Continue reading
