Tag Archives: Oliver Thring
Praise the lard: a beginner’s guide
Lard. Lardy. Or as the Italians romantically refer to it: lardo. The associations with shivering rolls of chubby flesh being chased around the playground are comic yet laced with danger. Far from innocent yet not proven guilty, accusations of raising … Continue reading
Posted in food fashion
Tagged crackling, lard, Oliver Thring, pig fat, Radio 4, The Food Programme, TIm Hayward
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An ode to absent apples
‘The season of mist and mellow fruitfulness’ may well be beckoning but the apples ‘bending the moss’d cottage-trees’ in Keats’ celebration of autumn are sadly absent in many gardens and orchards across the UK. The ‘swelling’ and the ‘plumping’ all … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, seasonal
Tagged apples, John Harris, John Keats, moon gardening, Oliver Thring, Radio 4, Sheila Dillon, Tresillian House
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