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A better standard of ordinariness

Rachel, do you know when or where Jane Grigson said her wonderful thing about masterpieces and ordinariness? I’ve searched without success, and would like to verify it.
best,
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Mary Margaret Pack
Personal chef, food stylist and food writer
It is a wonderful quote, isn’t it. “We have more than enough masterpieces. What we need is a better standard of [...]

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Tasting of Guanajuato cheese tonight

For all those readers who are far, far away from Guanajuato, take this as one more indication of the huge ferment in local food businesses of high quality in this part of the world.
For those in Guanajuato, please pass the message along (I only received it yesterday).
Friday 26th November en el Rincon del Beso, right [...]

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Whose French Cooking? What French Cooking?

In the 1960s, many middle class women (and I was one of them) and men too in England and the United States were swept up in French cooking, in England the French cooking of Mrs. David, in the United States the French cooking of Julia Child.
And as I mentioned earlier, although this might seem mere [...]

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