Tag Archives: The Food Programme
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
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Tagged crackling, lard, Oliver Thring, pig fat, Radio 4, The Food Programme, TIm Hayward
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I’m a foodie and I (dare to) know it, so kiss my foie gras.
Foodie (or foody). Gastronome. Epicure. Foodista. Gourmet. Gourmand. Foodlover. A complication of words to describe the very simple act of “ingesting things and then pooing them out,” (thedailymash.co.uk). Those words with obvious Latin or French roots are understandably class specific, … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, foodie, The Food Programme, The Official Foodie Handbook
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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
