Tag Archives: Radio 4
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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Cornish chef hosts Radio 4’s The Food Programme
“There’s nothing like pilchards for saving the soul.” Chef Sanjay Kumar is one excited man. Talk to him about food and his dark Indian eyes light up: there is very little this man does not know about Cornwall and food … Continue reading
