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Why now is the best time to eat Cornish lamb
Don’t be fooled into buying the pale spring lamb that fills supermarket shelves as the daffodils tentatively raise their yellow heads, the “finest lamb in the world”- according to top Launceston butchers Philip Warren & Son – is actually mid-June … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, seasonal
Tagged Cornish lamb, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Warrens & Son Launceston
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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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Meeting, tweeting and making butter with Hugh’s 3 Hungry Boys
Having recently finished founder of the Idler Society, Tom Hodgkinson’s medieval manifesto: How To Be Free, The Three Hungry Boys’ new book: How To Catch, Trap, Forage And Generally Blag Your Way To Survival In The Wild, made an excellent complement. … Continue reading
River Cottage Canteen Plymouth
Last week, the doors of middle class rural idylldom were thrown open to urban sprawl. River Cottage meet the city of Plymouth. A brave move and a welcome injection of provenance pedigree to a city that is upping its gastro … 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
A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen
Reviewing the Whitechapel Gallery’s Dining Rooms last weekend, to which Gordon Ramsay protégée, Angela Hartnett, has recently lent her expertise, led me to thinking of the discrepancy between women in the kitchen and celebrity women chefs. Where are they? Or … Continue reading
Excuse me for being cynical but…
…a cake that helps you to lose weight? Congratulations to a Tokyo-based company: it seems they have packaged and marketed the very negation of eating. A nebulous concept you retort? No, it seems. You can eat cake and lose weight … Continue reading
Posted in food fashion
Tagged cake, DHC, dried fruit, European Commission, Food Standards Agency, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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